<p>canhazphysics: Looks like you went through a lot of grief. Will you get to test again? If not, you might still have great scores. Just hope for the best.</p>
<p>wow 2300+ karan. hope you make us proud!!!</p>
<p>Thanks akashdip and PM me Rew…</p>
<p>you gonna ROCK!!!</p>
<p>Doubt I’ll retake. I did most of the test in a daze, and I know for sure I got one grid-in wrong. I have serious doubts as to the competence of my application even without the scores. This process is really nervewrecking sometimes. </p>
<p>Btw, do you think competitive colleges will accept 21 year old Indian girls?</p>
<p>@karan-My second essay did not have the word “Harvard” in it. It was a generic one that I could use in other colleges as well with a few alterations.</p>
<p>so @noncensure what do you wanna know about? astrophysics or waxing? if its the 1st one, then im the one. if its the 2nd one then…well…ask someone else!!:D</p>
<p>It depends…on what you did in the last 3-4 years.</p>
<p>@akash-no. Tell me the connection between the two. How does one connect the two? I mean unless astronauts are doing illicit activities that us mortals don’t know.</p>
<p>@noncensure: thanks a lot, that’ll surely help. At least I can use the same for all colleges that want one</p>
<p>Well, I took two gap years after 11th, worked as a freelance writer and supported myself financially. I went through some really tough things such as mental illnesses, electric shocks and whatnot, and finally took the 12th exams in 2011, and on a gap year now. :/</p>
<p>dont you know the moon wanes and waxes every fortnight? now you get the connection?:D</p>
<p>canhazphysics: Wow, if you can show them that you needed to take a break due to financial and medical reasons and that you still supported yourself as a freelance writer, it’ll show a great passion for education. Other people give up where you have succeeded. They have no reason to reject you.</p>
<p>Getting back to indian education system, do you guys intend to stay and work in the US after graduation or will you return to India? If you do return, how is your US education regarded compared to an indian education ?</p>
<p>I am uncertain about the undergrad scene here but for grad, US education is highly acclaimed. US graduates are offered high paying jobs etc. </p>
<p>Depends on the US economy then, if there’s a dearth of jobs, I’d probably come back to India…
what about you? would you go back to France or work in the States itself?</p>
<p>I am definitely coming back to India after my undergrad. Partly because a job in the private sector doesn’t allure me. I would like a job in the public sector. Honestly, there is not much of a difference if one does their undergrad from India or the US. The only difference is in terms of exposure to something new. Being at college in the US will provide an opportunity to familiarize oneself with an increasingly interconnected and international public, something lacking in Indian Universities. This doesn’t make much of a difference though.</p>
<p>Before others attack me for this statement, I should make it clear that I am comparing only the best universities in both countries :)</p>
<p>I’ll definitely go back to Europe, maybe not necessarily France though. One of the nice things about european community is the fact that any citizen of a member state can settle in any other member state of the EC. Of course, the current crisis is putting a lot of pressure on the community, but I hope things will straighten by the time I graduate.</p>
<p>I wanna go to the effing moon and stay there. Provided someone invents cheap and fast space travel by then. Or I do. Too many possibilities. Right now, can’t even say that I’ll get to the US.</p>
<p>@Tizil: will you go for grad school in india then ? If not, you could be disconnected from indian reality and maybe not attractive to indian companies/organization for this although your argument about international exposure is a very valid one</p>
<p>I don’t see the point of doing undergrad from the states and grad from India… Since graduation takes about two years or so, the disconnection from Indian reality which you’re talking about wouldn’t be valid…
These days, majority of the companies seek for employees with international exposure… so it shouldn’t make much of a difference.</p>