<p>This is my first post on CC. Although some of you experienced CCers may view this post or any of my few future posts with a slant of incredibility, I hope you don't.</p>
<p>GT and UIUC have very generous acceptance rates.
59% and 65% respectively.</p>
<p>Don't you think that this generous of a selectivity poses as a restraint on the diversity of the university?</p>
<p>Even though GT is ranked 35 and UIUC 47, don't you suppose that these are commonplace, mundane schools that every Indian applicant applies to (and gets into, for that matter) ?</p>
<p>Why do only these 2 schools (with perhaps the inclusion of Purdue) catch the attention of applicants from India?</p>
<p>If a mod. could change that ‘ant’ to a ‘and’, I would really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Engineering rankings.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>BTW, GT only has a 31% acceptance rate for international students. Source: admissions counselor at GT.</p>
<p>They aren’t bad universities. They don’t accept underqualified people. It’s just that they’re HUGE universities with a pretty big undergraduate student class/population.
And GT tends to be more self-selective, if not anything else. Go see the admitted student stats. The average GPA is a 3.8 UW!
No one would apply to GT if they are not serious about wanting to pursue engineering.</p>
<p>@aniruddhc- 31%? is that this years early action? are u sure about that? GT doesnt release international student specific stats is what the admissions office told me</p>
<p>Well first US news national rankings are a piece of crap. But weirdly their other rankings are to the point. If you want proper ranking of Universities then use: [ARWU</a> 2010](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp]ARWU”>http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp)
First of all UIUC and GT are public schools meaning a portion of their endowment comes from the taxpayers of the state. Thus like any other public institution they are bound to be more lenient in their admission standards. Actually it does not make them “bad”, it makes them just a little less selective. Here is an example, UChicago is a lot less selective than the Ivy League but as a matter of fact has higher number of noble laureates than most. It is not the selectivity of a college which is going to give you education but the college itself.
The answer to your last question why Indians flock to these universities is the same reason you are looking into these universities. Just think about that.</p>
<p>Also take into account that they admit a lot of people. </p>
<p>^^ well I’m an accepted student and that’s what my admissions counselor told me… I just read that email and he said 36%. Also, he said that they tend to accept a higher number of students from Asia.</p>
<p>@dibbasaya Refreshing to see sensible comments being made here about rankings.</p>
<p>^ sorry, didn’t spell your name correctly.</p>
<p>Well the opinions you get here are mostly by high school seniors or juniors. As someone who has left high school a few years back, I can assure the students here that the world is not as small as you think it is. It does matter which college you go to but it is more important how well you perform in the college. As a matter of fact, I know a person who dropped out of Caltech because he hated the everything about it (also was homesick) and started anew at UIUC after a year. He is pretty happy now. Something that some people don’t understand is that college is just not a brand name for your resume but four years of your life (the most important ones).
@anirudh:where are you headed?</p>
<p>dibbasatya, are you in graduate school now?</p>
<p>EDIT: somehow one of earlier posts got deleted.</p>
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<p>I know this is off-topic.</p>
<p>We heard similar stories about CalTech earlier this year. I think they had 4 or 5 suicides recently including that of a very famous physics prof (Andrew Lange).</p>
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<p>I am going to evaluate my options in April.</p>