<p>^ Well, the adcoms know about the Kota system. At least the Penn one’s did [they came to my school]</p>
<p>Much more important than your grades will be your class rank.</p>
<p>And top colleges, usually, take students from schools that they “know” about. Meaning that they have a decent avg. SAT score and some previous acceptances into good college. CEEB codes FTW. </p>
<p>That said, nothing is impossible.</p>
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<p>Hahahahhaha… but seriously they are much more than nerds.</p>
<p>I don’t think that I’d be allowed to go to Kota for getting coached, besides I am too intellectually arrogant to allow a coaching institute to dictate my course of studies. I am not saying that coaching is unethical. I’m just trying to say that this sort of truancy from school is unethical. After all there’s a minimum attendance rate failing to fulfill which you’re supposed get into trouble. This sort of collusion between school and coaching institutes is what I find distasteful. I have nothing against n0mad though.</p>
<p>On the other hand getting to solve plenty of interesting and fun problems with your friends in an isolated location sounds fun. Doing that for a test doesn’t seem worth it to me.</p>
<p>The students aren’t playing trauncy. The students at kota do learn everything required for the 11th and 12th syllabus!</p>
<p>The whole “kota” system is an exploitation of the loopholes present in the indian education system. The cutoff for the jee is only 60%…</p>
<p>^exactly what aniruddh said.</p>
<p>I think board curriculum is too easy not the subject matter but the fact that it doesnt really challenge your intellect, i remember my school teachers in tenth and i know the professors i learn from now, no comparison simply, in school the teachers dont know anything, okay its an overstatement, but it feels like that after learning from these great people here, to be challenged intellectually at every moment, to be around equally and more intellegent people is simply overwhelming, in my school i was the smartest kid in class but here every kid is the smartest kid of their school so you know your true place, here questions like why dont get an answer its out of curriculum(you can ignore chemistry it sucks everywhere) and i actually came to know what physics is after coming here not, you can say i can have a mini orgasm on solving a good physics question, the feeling that you get by learning integration from asia’s fastest integrator can be amazing. I didnt come out of choice i came here out of compulsion. If you can give me all this at my school i’ll gladly go there and not miss the classes even if i’m ill(again this doesnt apply for chemistry). If bansal or something similar had been there in my city i’d gladly go to school and bansal both. And as for wifi yes bansal classes has wifi but it is limited to the administrative block. And as for porn we still manage to watch it. I can still access internet courtesy my loving mobile phone.</p>
<p>^ exactly the same case with me.
I was one of the smartest kids in my class till i joined my present school… It was overwhelming at first.
The level of science and math we had in the 10th is not even a patch on what we’re learning right now… That being said, the 11th and 12th curriculum helped solve many paradoxes in the science syllabus i noticed in the 10th portion.</p>
<p>^^ I do agree that our board syllabus is not enough to sufficiently challenge the ones who are actually looking for challenge. I don’t quite like the Kota system that’s all.</p>
<p>n0mad suppose you get into the IITs, then will you take physics at any of the IITs that do offer physics at the undergrad level or will you take a physics related engineering subject like Electronics and telecom?</p>
<p>At iit physics is compulsory subject in the first year and since its engg college you have do get b.tech. in some engg stream, most probably i’ll take cs and i’d like to enroll at powaii. That said my first choice is MIT if selected i’d surely pursue physics and something related to robotics or maybe the famous course 6.</p>
<p>would anyone mind explaining exactly where I can ‘explain’ my 79% final percentage in 11th in my application??Thanks!</p>
<p>Is there anything to explain? If you really want to, there should be a place on the application where you can explain individual academic circumstances.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can ask your counselor to explain the situation in his/her recommendation letter, even though there no need to in your particular case!</p>
<p>Okay,I’ll do that! Thanks!</p>
<p>Actually,I SHALL be needing to explain the situation of getting extremely good marks in chem,math and english and the miserable ones in physics and economics…although i have no idea how to get the counsellor to do that! I mean whats she gonna say?
“(Insert name) got pathetic marks in phy and eco because??? the subjects did not click well with her sense of ethics” aaargh!</p>
<p>79 really doesnt need to be explained… Offering an explanation will make the adcoms think that it is not a good percentage at all which is obviously not true.
Just saying but theres a member on this forum who got into upenn with aid inspite of getting a 79 in his 11th…</p>
<p>the counsellor asked me for my rank for the class of 2010-2011. Im in commerce stream CBSE and ranked 1st in the commerce department. But is the rank he is asking for the entire 12th grade including science or just the commerce department?</p>
<p>Ask him.</p>
<p>EDIT: I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful, but you really should ask him. He could mean any of those 2 things.</p>
<p>no in general the percentage rank (ranked in _% of th class 2010- 2011) that universities look at are the stream wise rank or the entire class (including science) rank?
He told me to ask the class teacher, the class teacher instructed me to ask the counsellor! LOL</p>
<p>Generally, it would be the class rank.</p>
<p>I would say stream rank. Cos theyre essentially different curriculums, u cant really compare…</p>
<p>That’s misrepresentation of facts. US adcoms won’t expect that, because this stream thing exists only in India.</p>