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Actually, there is a Japantown in San Francisco and Koreatown is about half a block of Korean stores. (Sorry, but I think it's because you live in OK.)
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<p>UH I didn't say they didn't exist. I said I didn't see them where I lived, obviously, but still saw alot of Korean and chinese people. I lived in Dallas for a long time and I saw a whole bunch of K-town and C-towns...</p>
<p>Bumpbumpbump</p>
<p>If you want to see how hard it is to be a genuine asian, go to school in India or Korea. They're learning nuclear physics in 9th grade. Most of the kids in my school are still takin Introduction to Physical Science (other than some who are takin Biology like me). They're probably doing Calc thier freshman year.</p>
<p>And Singapore, where pressure-cooker environment, at least for schooling, is a given. So adaptability is the key, not just for Asians, genuie or otherwise.</p>
<p>Oops, genuine.</p>
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What all of sudden you people stop argueing? Did you actually go to a school in India or something?</p>
<p>In Korea kids first start learning Calculus in 10th grade, and finish it in 11th. Science-track high school kids learn differential equations and possibly some linear algebra in 12th grade.</p>
<p>Japanese learn it at a similar pace.</p>
<p>Although I've been told that some do a better job of learning it than others...</p>
<p>In India, we do everything lewisloftus said in the span of 8 months</p>
<p>Wow...I'd fail out of school if I were in India...I had to drop out of precal honors because the teacher went too fast...:(</p>
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So are all high school students in India basically on a Science/Engineering track? Or is there a distinction between Humanities/Social Science people and Science/Engineering people?</p>
<p>My Dad went to IIT. Its supposedly better then MIT+Princeton+Cornell combined</p>
<p>I slacked off in HS, but I do have his intelligence..</p>
<p>But we Indians are not asians, as we usually become doctors and go to Ivies too, but are not as psychotic as some of the asians I know</p>
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MIT+Princeton+Cornell
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Indian Institute of Technology is better than those 3 combined? Don't make me laugh</p>
<p>No hes right IIT is better than those 3. Didn't you see the Dateline NBC (or maybe 60 minutes or something like that) where they did IIT? One of the professors sons was rejected from IIT and was forced to go to Harvard. He, according to the show, was not the only one to have to do that. There were plenty of rejects from IIT who went to top colleges in the USA.</p>
<p>Still India has no athletics or social life attached to its colleges or schools. I wouldn't go there if I got into Harvard etc.</p>
<p>I was born in the USA btw so I'm not sticking up for India or anything. I'm just repeating what the show said.</p>
<p>A lot, though, depends on your school. I go to one of the top schools in NJ (at least in science...math is a somewhat different story), and the AP classes here cover far more than the AP curriculum requires (my AP Phys teacher last year went on totally absurd rants about crazy calculus problems, for example). I've looked at the problems my friends in India do. They're not above the level of what I know or above the top kids in my school.</p>
<p>Granted, the IIT JEE exams are hard, but again, not TERRIBLY so, especially after all that studying. </p>
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My Dad went to IIT. Its supposedly better then MIT+Princeton+Cornell combined.
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<p>My parents (both IIT grads) have a different view on things. They feel that IIT grads are probably better at solving pencil-paper problems than US university counterparts, but the kind of application-heavy things you learn at MIT or Caltech is without comparison. And since "real" science/engineering is also very research heavy, you have far more opportunities for that in the US. There's clearly no shortage of brainpower at IIT, but to say that IIT > MIT, Caltech, etc would be gross oversimplification. The reality is less simple.</p>
<p>Oh, and don't be dissin' Princeton. :D</p>
<p>oh trust me Im not, Im just a bitter HS junior tryin to make it out alive without having to report to prosaic :)</p>
<p>Ya me too. What's that other antidepressant? Zoloft or something? I'd prefer to use Zoloft. But whatever. :)</p>
<p>Besides, Princeton doesn't have undergraduate business an MBA program. If I had the grades and scores for Princeton (4.1/2350) then I'd go for Wharton. :D</p>
<p>ihateCA, your quiz is flawed:</p>
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True/False:
1. I love math and science.
2. I speak (insert asian language)
3. I want to go to HYPSM/UC Berkeley/UCLA/Gtown/Northwestern/some other brand name college.
4. I want to become a doctor/engineer.
5. I want to/intend to live in LA.
6. I take/intend to take any three of the following: AP Bio/AP Chem/AP Phys B or C/AP Calc BC.
7. Your parents think anything below 2200 is horrible.
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<p>Typically, 6 and 4 would imply 1....so you can toss that one out.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>No test is perfect.</p>
<p>now if only most asian parents would apply that last gem to sat's.</p>
<p>:)</p>