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Reason to rejoice :D</p>
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HYPSM, Brown, CalTech, GTech, Harvey Mudd, Penn, Purdue.
In order of preference.</p>
<p>What about others?</p>
<p>BTW…What major have you guys decided to pursue??
Im going for engineering, WHO ELSE?</p>
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Me 
10char</p>
<p>Haha… Me too :D</p>
<p>On another note, I would like everyone’s opinion on something. I will keep it as short and logical as possible.</p>
<ol>
<li>I want to take the UPSC exam. (Union Public Service Commission)</li>
<li>I’m a 2016er.</li>
<li>I’m eligible to take the exam once I complete my undergrad.</li>
<li>I am doing my undergrad from UK/US.</li>
<li>I’m aiming at the top universities, in either country.</li>
<li>What would you suggest - between UK and US? Considering the different approach to education in the two countries and keeping in mind the approach to the UPSC.</li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m aiming for a few schools in the top 20… </p>
<p>I have a few family friends in admissions at some of the schools you’re looking at, so if you need any help, please ask!</p>
<p>Ok Tizil apparently you’re very low on research. From your list well honestly I wouldnt even bother applying to Harvard, Yale and Brown. Not because you dont stand a chance but because these schools arent fantastic for engineering. I can assure you that a school like GATech is better than Harvard for engineering. It would just be stupid to apply to these schools for the name. You’re better off applying instead to Cornell and Columbia which are better than Harvard, Yale and Brown for engineering. Secondly, I dont know how financially prudent it is to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a US education and then earn a Civil Services salary. I dont know how much it is going to better your chances of getting in to the civil services if you study in the US. Of course its a different matter if you’re applying with aid in which case if you get into Harvard, well you might as well have used that effort on Columbia or Cornell. Yeah so please please please to all the kids here, dont hanker after the name, you’re gonna be in trouble.</p>
<p>" I dont know how financially prudent it is to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a US education and then earn a Civil Services salary."</p>
<p>Not prudent at all. Unless you are from a rich business family, which does not care about 1 Cr.</p>
<p>Or unless you can get a good ride through school.</p>
<p>That was a rhetorical statement. Lol.</p>
<p>hey ! anyone thinking about a major in astrophysics?</p>
<p>Me. I’m planning for a major in either astrophysics or physics (some universities don’t have astrophysics as a major in undergraduate, that’s why). :D</p>
<p>@mysticgohan - maybe you know more than me, but i think the name is what the companies look for when hiring people. For example, Gtech is higher than Harvard in Engineering but when a comapny hires an engineer, it will always take the harvard undergrad than the Gtech one. (just my opinion)</p>
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I have a similar ideology.
Of course you can’t pan out this concept to say that a History Major from MIT is the best in his/her field. But you could bias for/against comparable majors in comparable colleges?
Please correct me if this is not the case. Thanks :)</p>
<p>This is exactly the kind of attitude I exhort you to discard. You’re right that name matters with employers. GA Tech has a better engineering name than Harvard does. Your engineering employer will know which colleges are good for engineering and which arent. You think they’re so poorly informed that they’ll just take people just because their college has a good medical school or good social sciences curriculum when they hire an engineer? You guys need to give more credit to recruiters. Recruiters are not fools. It doesnt matter if you’re from Harvard if your engineering background isnt good. And please plan your US college lists prudently. The process is already arbitrary and difficult to predict without people applying to ridiculously difficult colleges when there are much easier and better alternatives for the course they need.</p>
<p>hmmmm… ^^ I definitely agree ! “Recruiters are not fools”</p>
<p>Mysticgohan you are very wise. You all should listen to him.</p>
<p>@mysticgohan - Agreed. But its equally important to have a mix of schools. Harvard may not be a leading engineering college but completely dropping it from our college list wouldnt be wise. And, ofcourse, being solely dependant on it is simply ludicrous!</p>
<p>No one mentioned anything against having a mixture of schools. That would be the most logical and prudent approach. Still what you dont comprehend is while Harvard may not be a leading engineering college, it is as hard to get into as any leading engineering college. Which means you might as well divert that effort into more worthwhile endeavours. Getting into Harvard is extremely difficult which is why it is not worth the effort for anyone pursuing engineering because there are other schools that are just as good but significantly easier. All Im saying is, have ambition but have ambition with purpose. Dont try for a school cause its overall ranking is really good. Honestly what does it matter to an engineer if Harvard’s med school or law school or social sciences school is extra-terrestrial? Instead of Harvard, Yale, Princeton apply instead to MIT, Caltech, Stanford if you wanna do engineering.</p>
<p>Ok correction, Princeton is pretty good for engineering. Make that Harvard, Yale, Brown</p>
<p>I did not mean to point out things that you didnt say. I just wanted to bring things to light for all of us.
Well, you are bang on with the mention of not getting unnecessarily bedazzled just by the names and instead think logically. You are correct in saying that Harvard is very hard to get into for anyone and even not worth the effort especially when more easy-to-reach schools are available and perhaps better as far as engineering is concerned.</p>