<p>Well the smart Americans are really smart. They do very well at the Intl Olympiads for almost everything. And Einstein’s math was pretty good, you need to be relative ;)</p>
<p>I’m good at physics, english (literature, especially. I’m an ardent novel-guy ;)), computers, especially graphics, maths and besides that, a random mix of general knowledge and some other stuff that intrigues me a lot, for eg, volcanoes, marine life etc. </p>
<p>For bad, I don’t have a clearly defined notion of what is bad. I have done well in all the subjects in my 9th and 10th grades (I have the most consistencies in my subject scores in my school perhaps) and 11th appears no tough. The only thing I say is, I’m bad at remembering history dates and functions of various institutions of government, UN etc. as they teach us in schools.</p>
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In a very different way. ;)</p>
<p>I don’t specialise in anything in computers (besides traversing across forums and wasting my time ;)) but I have a good general knowledge of computers. Besides graphics, programming (C++) is another interest. I am doing a cricket simulator, which I hope will be completed by the end of next year possibly. The main focus is on graphics however.</p>
<p>And yeah, studying about World Wars is fantastic. I plan to read that book, Mein Kampf, someday.</p>
<p>Ahaha, and I loathe organic as well. Didn’t put it in earlier, because I am not bad at it, just detest it from the bottom of my heart.</p>
<p>Nope, I have a huge of list of novels to be completed before I move on to it. I might buy it though, at the upcoming book fair here.</p>
<p>Again on the topic of ethnicity and the commonapp, if anyone is able to address the following queries it would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>First of all on the topic of leaving the ethnicity box blank. My name is not South Asian sounding, or Caucasian sounding;in fact it is almost impossible to work out my ethnicity from my name. In addition, I don’t have many other things in my application that point out I am Asian. If I leave it blank will admissions officers look down on it.</p>
<p>Secondly should I not make it clear where my interests lie on the first page, I plan to major in economics but since it is such a common major I think it may work against me. Again if I was to leave the section blank or put my interest as other will admissions officers consider me to be indecisive and unclear about my future. Could this somehow form a bad impression?</p>
<p>All feed back is kindly appreciated.</p>
<p>Damnit it seems the thread has died. Honestly people we have to keep it alive till we get our college results. the 2015ers seems to have achieved it xD.</p>
<p>I am not from India, but I am Indian, my parents moved to the US and I am born and raised here. All of you are making me feel so inadequate! 
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<p>I have not taken the SATs, I live in the midwest(near Chicago) so I have taken the ACT and have gotten 33 out of 36, but I’ve sat for SAT IIs and Math L2 I got 750, Chemistry 760. Everyone on here has gotten such high scores in SATs and SAT IIs! No wonder all of you are going to Ivies! My dreams of Harvard and Yale are all disappearing!</p>
<p>You are all very smart though, with common knowledge that I can only hope to one day gain. Ma is always telling me how everyone in India has common knowledge and nobody here does!</p>
<p>I was trying to quote one of the previous posts on how Americans are stupid and use their calculators for simple math. But it didn’t work. :(</p>
<p>The fact that we use our calculators for everything is out of laziness, not that you need FA.</p>
<p>Ok, thank you!</p>
<p>@rastogr - You are under a very wrong impression, friend. Yeah, without any humility (:p), I will accept that a large number of us are very smart, but common knowledge is not certainly everyone’s upperhand here as well. And above all, your system has a bigger diversity of preferred careers than us, so it makes a lot of difference. Plus we’re competitive.* And we’re certainly larger in number (Indian student population) than in larger countries.</p>
<p>I appreciate your praises for Indian people here on CC, but there’s no need to be despondent. Ivy league or HYPSM is not that much crucial that someone’s life is devastated if they don’t get in. I might not myself.</p>
<p>*of course, it doesn’t apply to all the students in India.</p>
<p>These are all very good points 
Are you planning to come here for college and then return to India? Or will you stay here? Just curious, obviously my parents stayed here, but also obviously, a lot return back home.</p>
<p>Hi there, I’m not in India right now, but I’m definitely still Indian. LOL, let’s hope we all get into the schools of our choice!</p>
<p>Hope to see some of you at Harvard (yn)</p>
<p>Getting accepted to US schools from international (especially some of the Ivies) is really tough because so many people compete for limited quotas :(</p>
<p>yes, but there’s no use worrying about that. Just try your best!</p>
<p>hi,
which universities offer interviews in india?
i am sure mit does!!!</p>
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<p>Yup, I’ll probabaly complete my studies either in the US, or Canada or UK (I have a great advantage with UToronto, if I don’t make it to the US, my uncle resides just nearby.) No idea whether will return to India or not. Wherever my career and research takes me, will be fine enough.</p>
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<p>Well , 4 years and I will be back home India !! After all there is no better place than home .</p>
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<p>4 years (or less), and I’ll be making my way back to India. There’s no other country as perfect for me.</p>