<p>@harvy: cool. Thanks :D</p>
<p>Quoting my dumbass chemistry teacher: “most of you’ll will end up messing isc, aieee, iit… Blah blah blah blah… Then when u don’t get admission here and if your dad has money you’ll go abroad”</p>
<p>Why the hell do stupid people have such orthodox views about stuff like this?</p>
<p>American universities are far better than the iits, bits, etc… There’s no comparison… If our parents are willing to send us, I’d suggest y</p>
<p>hey thanks harvy, every little bit helps, wether it be directly or indirectly
i recently got a really nice book called the indian guide to american colleges, really helpful,</p>
<p>So what are your dream colleges? I really want to go to Harvard or Princton or an Ivy League. If I don’t get admission, I might just go to India and study medicine. But my parents say there is also lots of competition there as well. ughh–I hate all this college process but hey it’s life, I guess.</p>
<p>its quite opposite here at bansal, my physics teacher instead praises US universities a lot, and keeps telling us iit steals problems from US universities to give in jee, we have an exercise 3 in our sheets that have collection of past iit jee problems, while discussing the questions he tells this question has been stolen from wisconsin, this from caltech etc. He criticizes the teaching style at iit saying its too theorotical and rote learning type.</p>
<p>@Nomad: Could you tell me where to get that book from?</p>
<p>Also, you’re agreeing with me over the whole one dimensional education that is offered by the IITs, not contradicting me!!!</p>
<p>I’m sorry just ignore the last sentence I’m very tired and my brain is really clouded up… I got what you meant :)</p>
<p>no i didnt contradict you i was comparing ur chem teacher to my phy teacher.
I got the book from a local bookstore,
The Indian Guide To American Colleges
Author: Joyce Slayton Mitchell
Publisher: HAY house
Pages: 292
Price:Rs. 299/-</p>
<p>I think you’ll find it at any good bookstore, it has a list of about 100 colleges at the last giving about one page detail about each.</p>
<p>My parents actually say the indian style of teaching is much better than here but they also say you don’t get that must of a global perspective. They say that they explain everything by step by step and the whole learnign process is easy. I can tell you here that in some of my classes, they don’t explain anything and just tell us to read this paper and writee a term paper. I hate that and then you fail in the stupid 300 points paper.(happened to me-hate English so much). And also Science here is difficult cause in high school, they start you with all the hard concepts of science, I mean you don’t even get to have background info. but I guess at the same time, you also learn the global. I mean when I studied in India like 2nd and 1st grade. I likedd it, I mean we had homework but it was easy. I don’t know which to prefer. I guess they voth have advantages and disadvantages.</p>
<p>So you guys are typing this from actual India like all this?</p>
<p>Custard: Where d’you live? If you’re in the US, you do NOT want to come to India. The Indian high school system is (in my opinion) stronger than the US equivalent. But Indian colleges aren’t as good as the US ones (comparitively). You won’t get any global perspective at all, you’ll just graduate with a highly technical and specialized knowledge of your subject, and your subject ONLY, and with zero social skills.</p>
<p>And yea, I’m in India right now.</p>
<p>Omygod!!! that’s so cool!!Yah Iam here in US. That’s so cool, It’s been a long time since I talked to anyone in india except my family and relatives. I mean I have friends but they are Americanized (sorry but they are). Sometimes it’s good to talk to someone like back home. ok, Im done.</p>
<p>Yah, I heard that blue_box, that you don’t have any global perspective. But I guess it’s improving, I mean isn’t the world becoming more globalized…this is practically the 21st century.</p>
<p>If you’re going to college anytime in the next 6-8 years, the situation will be as bad as it is now. Stay in the US, seriously. We’re all trying to go to the US, and you’re coming back to India. x_x</p>
<p>Bad idea.</p>
<p>blue_box: hahaah…yah, I don’t know. We were thinking to stay until my high school is over. i don’t know after that.</p>
<p>Again, bad idea. The college system here is based on rote learning and is very theoretical. You’ll find it very difficult to adjust after studying in the US.</p>
<p>Yah, I heard that. I think I’ll just stick to here now. -_-</p>
<p>Haha. Well thats a good idea, for a change.</p>
<p>You’re planning on going to med school? I assume you’re familiar with the differences between studying medicine here and in the US?</p>
<p>Yah…but it’s going to be hard. I have a friend in UF (unveristy of florida) and he is going for pre-med and there’s lot so of compeition. So I have to work really hard and I think it’s a bad idea to do it in India…Im guessing ur anser will be.</p>
<p>Noo. My answer is sorta different if you’re planning to study medicine. In India, medicine is a bachelor’s degree (MBBS) and then you go on specializing in graduate school. In the US, you get a bachelor’s degree in anything else first, and then move on to med school.
Which one do you prefer?</p>
<p>In the US, med school is going to burn a colossal hole in your (or your parents’) pockets. If you’re going to take out loans, you’ll be in debt for a very long time, and debt is a PAIN to get rid off.</p>
<p>I’d recommend you take a look at Indian medical colleges. The cost difference is so much that its worth facing the “adapting to the Indian environment” problem. Some colleges have NRI quotas also. Look into that.</p>
<p>Yah, but What if I want to come back here? I’ll have to do my residental and all the the other stuff. I know it’ll cost less, I mean my friend who was a indian that was doing pre-med also was thinking to india but the adaptations of studying over there after a series of years makes it hard to learn isn’t it. I mean after you become a docctor, you can pay the debt off. And also you have scholarships.</p>
<p>^^ That’s what a lot of people, including my parents used to tell me when I was interested in medicine. If you go to India for med school it’s gonna be a whole lot cheaper, education’s just as good & you’re probably going to finish up your schooling in a shorter amount of time :)</p>