[Indian] Where in the US can I study math?

MYOS1634
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:59:30 +0000

No, the UCs give NO scholarships to internationals, not full and not partial. You can’t go there if you need even 5K in scholarship and can pay 50K a year (and since you’re far from having that much, forget the UCs). The sole purpose of international students is to fund California students who can’t get in after funding cuts. There was a fight between the UC chancellor to get the per-student funding that they used to get in 2008, and hte governor, and I have no idea who “won” but right now there’s a cap on how many internationals and OOS American students can be admitted to some UCs.

For the 8-semester thing, in fact you’d go to a “famous” grad school for your PHD, obviously. But you’d have a Master’s degree, which means for an international that you have priority over BS/BA internationals for an H1B visa (work visa) after your OPT. Having a Master’s degree, for an international, is very interesting administratively speaking. Of course you may not intend to need OPT nor H1B but it’s still a good

LACs may well have graduate level classes - some 2nd year classes at LACs may be 3rd year classes elsewhere (for instance, a university where students often start at Precalculus because most of their applicants only completed Algebra2 in high school, will have Calc2&3 as 2nd year classes. Colleges where most students have had calculus may well have calc2&3 as a first year sequence, etc.)
Beside Harvey Mudd, look into Williams and Amherst. Amherst would be a good bet for ED since it’s one of the few need blind/meet need colleges for internationals and because of the 5-college consortium that would let you take graduate classes at UMass Amherst. If you can be one of the THREE international students with financial need who are admitted to Harverford, you could take advanced math classes at Penn once you’ve run out of classes to take there.
So, essentially, don’t limit yourself; as an international student with financial need, you have to apply widely or you’ll be stuck home.

If you CAN get an IMO qualification, whether you like that type or math or not is irrelevant. Your admission to a US program depends on it. So you suck it up and you do your best to qualify. Because if you don’t your odds of going to the US are fairly low and certainly not to any sort of university ranked in the top 50.