<p>oh no i missed it 
wow!!! U ppl really had a storm nearly ten pages of posts, neway yay now tit 18 is the largest. And congrats harvy. i heaved a sigh of relief i came to know that mit had admitted 28 indians in 2009-10 someone told me it was five makes things a little easier.</p>
<p>^Thanks but I personally think that ‘someone’ was correct!</p>
<p>harvy, yes. i am glued to computer 24/7. i have another 17 minutes to finish downloading some s/w. it is for an embedded linux project i m working on …</p>
<p>nope someone was wrong indeed i checked on the mit website they have the complete data there broken down geographically, gender wise, major wise etc. So its official data and i doubt that its wrong.</p>
<p>here is the link web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/geo/index.html check it out and see if it is really the same thing i’m talking about…</p>
<p>That, if I am not mistaken, is the total number of Indian students at MIT’s Undergraduate School. Places like Harvard, MIT et cetera only pick up people from India in single digits. They are prestigious and exclusive, and, hence, stand out of the crowd. It is a fact that is difficult to digest, but the sooner you do it, the better it will be for you!</p>
<p>here is the link web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/geo/index.html check it out and see if it is really the same thing i’m talking about…</p>
<p>nomad, harvy is right. it counts all undergrads.</p>
<p>Yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. The 28 Indians in the Undergraduate column are actually the total number of undergraduates of Indian origin at MIT as of 2009. If we divide 28 by 4, we get 7. This means that MIT, on average, admits just 7 Indians every year. Are things more clear now?</p>
<p>yeah pretty much. But 7 is better than 5 
and why did you divide it by four? And who said admission to mit isnt exclusive? Thats why i’m planning to apply to even priceton caltech stanford maybe harvard and i’m undecided between brown and yale, i’m planning to apply max five because its damn expensive 80-90 dollars per application that’ll make it 20k rs plus the sat 1 &2 fee, the application itself is soo expensive.</p>
<p>The application process on the whole will cost me more than what I paid for the last four years of high school.</p>
<p>@nomad: I divided it by four because we have four years of undergraduate education in the US: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. It was just another way of computing the average to make things clear for you. And I termed MIT ‘exclusive’ because I wanted to highlight the low acceptance rate! </p>
<p>@Ani: This is just the beginning!</p>
<p>Tis crazy expensive, it’s true.</p>
<p>Don’t forget SAT prep books, they’re part of the process price</p>
<p>Education is an industry in America.</p>
<p>@harvy ok yeah that makes sense, and i thats what i meant by exclusive, and i was wondering how do you find out that you are ivy material and its not a waste applying to them…
I havent bought the books yet so it isnt for me yet, but i’m going to soon so i should brace myself,</p>
<p>“how do you find out that you are ivy material and its not a waste applying to them…”</p>
<p>You won’t know until you apply to them. But yeah, you need to be a complete package.</p>
<p>Harvard, congrats for the I-20. I might be receiving mine soon too.</p>
<p>"And who said admission to mit isnt exclusive? Thats why i’m planning to apply to even priceton caltech stanford maybe harvard and i’m undecided between brown and yale, i’m planning to apply max five because its damn expensive 80-90 dollars per application that’ll make it 20k rs plus the sat 1 &2 fee, the application itself is soo expensive. "</p>
<p>Do you realize that your ‘even to’ colleges are probably more selective than mit? Don’t be too sure of your own exclusiveness right now, no matter how good you are. You’ll be surprised by the number of super-humans that get rejected by all ivies and other ‘exclusives’ :P</p>
<p>i’m not being sure of anything and i know i can well be rejected by each one of them i’m not saying i’m exclusive or something like that i’ve read on each and every college’s website ‘‘we turn down so and so percent of our perfect scores,’’ and all the other things related to admission at ivy’s and i am fully aware of the level of competetion. I wanted to mention that i’m applying to only 5 colleges due to the immense application cost, i think that it conveyed the wrong message across</p>
<p>@Wanderer: Thanks a lot pal!</p>
<p>@nomad: To begin with, Gary and Wanderer are right! Admission to the Ivy League, MIT and Stanford, amongst many others, is very random and, hence, nearly impossible to predict to perfection.</p>
<p>Each university in the US is based on a certain set of ideals and characteristics. They like to see these very qualities in their students. Therefore, a person cut out for a place like MIT or Stanford might not be a good choice for a liberal place like Brown (I personally know someone who was rejected by Brown and accepted by Yale)!</p>
<p>If you think from the bottom of your heart that you have worked hard all through high school, have scored or made use of every possible opportunity that you got, I advise you to apply to the US. Whether you get in or not, it will definitely be a fantastic experience applying, and, if luck be on your side, you may even get to know weird things about yourself!</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>@Ani: I have to get a few immunizations done, and then I will very happily reply to your email! Thanks for everything you wrote. I truly appreciate it!</p>