<p>I just checked out IMO on google.
I didn’t participate in this one. 
[International</a> Mathematical Olympiad](<a href=“http://www.imo-official.org/]International”>http://www.imo-official.org/)</p>
<p>The one I did take part in was called the “International Maths Olympiad”, and conducted across Asia. I came 2nd in Maharashtra, and got a Silver Medal as an Indian participant. Does is count as much?</p>
<p>do u mean the SOF IMO??
If its this one, its just another award ( I too gave this exam).</p>
<p>Yes, it is the SOF IMO. I never thought it had much value anyway.</p>
<p>Mrinal, any recommendations as to where I should apply? My seniors said not to look at rankings at all because they are not at all representative, so I’m a bit confused about where to start looking. I’ve seen Ivy league websites and a few other popular names, but I’m sure there are many great schools that I haven’t seen yet.</p>
<p>Your seniors sound smart, brewboy :p</p>
<p>Jokes apart, rankings should be considered, but not obsessively. We’re not mavericks out here ;)</p>
<p>I think the following places might be good engineering schools. Don’t take my word for it, you should research on your own and see what you like best:</p>
<p>Public: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, Michigan - Ann Arbor, TAMU.</p>
<p>Private: Harvey Mudd, Caltech, Columbia SEAS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Stanford Leland Junior University, Cornell, Northwestern.</p>
<p>I’ll add some more here later on.</p>
<p>@brewboy</p>
<p>Research and select the colleges that you want that are good in the program that YOU WANT TO STUDY. Don’t spend four years of life at a place that you chose on the basis of of rankings. Rather go to a place where you know you will enjoy yourself and learn what you want to learn</p>
<p>So what’s up with the Physics board today? I am hearing a lot about how the Physics exam was extremely difficult and had some unexpected question types.</p>
<p>Looks like my friends experienced two disasters today 
How rude of me, making puns based, not on one, but two sad events* :rolleyes:</p>
<p>*Delhi Earthquake and Physics Board - Read the newspaper! :eek:</p>
<p>It was alright, slightly lengthy. Happy that United beat Spurs. Also , what time do GeorgiaTech results come out on the 10th? Can’t wait!</p>
<p>they might be related man, maybe the students bombed CBSE main building in Delhi resulting in the afteshock. 
These students, I tell u( sighs)…</p>
<p>Well Sibal really has screwed up the education system, hasn’t he? He’s tried to make copy the Americans, but only till tenth. Quite irritating, if you ask me. If he wanted to to ‘modernize’ the system, he should atleast have implemented it throughout high school. The American system works because it works the same way throughout high school. What we have now is a ridiculously easy 9th and 10th, followed up by a much tougher 11th and 12th, whereas earlier students learnt to work hard in 10th.</p>
<p>And he screwed the JEE too, Did anyone see the news about ISEET?? Its the new name for the JEE and they want to have a SAT like entrance exam for every engineering college in the country.</p>
<p>He is, quite frankly, overrated. He came to my school in Bahrain. I asked what does he plan to do to improve the higher education scene for poorer,students who can’t afford entrance exam coaching. </p>
<p>His reply was that he had opened up the Indian education scene to foreign colleges like OXFORD. I mean what kind of stupid reply is that? As if Oxford would come to India to subsidize education for poor students who would anyways be disadvantagedNin the admissions race compared to richer peers who have access to better resources. His life is one big brainfart.</p>
<p>Also, ISEEET sounds like I****. Hehe. If you say it fast. Very fast.</p>
<p>Oh they censor that?</p>
<p>^^ its only two Es, not a whole lot.
lol, it does sound like it :D</p>
<p>Ratan Tata is a Cornell alumnus. How cool is that?</p>
<p>Who overrated him…
I never actually rated him at all…
He’s like AVB(Neither the good of the old things or the advantage of new ones)</p>
<p>Lol at the AVB reference. I meant overrated by all teh teachers who thought that he was a second coming of Jesus or something.</p>
<p>^^ my teachers hate him…they would bury him alive if given a chance, not to mention how my FIITJEE teachers think of him…</p>
<p>@pratyush795 mind you though that I am not one of you :D</p>
<p>I am a trueblue!!!</p>
<p>@Mrinal</p>
<p>My Physics FIITJEE teacher thinks he’s doing good stuff, while my Chem teacher hates him.</p>
<p>My Maths teacher, on the other hand, is cool. He was disgusted when a girl (JEE rank 5 or so) chose MIT over IIT. Since MIT is need blind, I don’t think
finance was an issue.</p>
<p>And Sir Alex Ferguson is the best manager ever.</p>