If you are Indian-American...why would you not apply to IITs?

[Anonymous]

Have you thought about this? You have a right to study in India in IITs (If you are able to get admission) for a fraction of price, especially if you have an OCI card.

[Anonymous]

You are out of your clueless mind. IIT is a lot more competitive than ivies. Not on the same level.

[Anonymous]

For the most part, Indians only apply to US colleges because they can’t get into the IIT schools.

The acceptance rates are less than 1%.

[Anonymous]

OP - what motivated you to ask this? what did you hear?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you thought about this? You have a right to study in India in IITs (If you are able to get admission) for a fraction of price, especially if you have an OCI card.

You sound dim OP. What do you mean by an Indian-American having "the right" to study in India. Are you assuming that every Indian-American also has Indian citizenship?

In any case, IIT also accepts foreigners--so you can apply for your own children if you're interested.

[Anonymous]

Why would an Indian American go to college in India?? That makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

UMD will take you - biomedical now that computer science is getting crushed by AI

[Anonymous]

Because,
a. I can't get in (as in, I cannot pass the JEE)
b. I don't want to study engineering
c. I don't want to go to college in India
d. I don't want to live in India post-graduation
e. I don't want to go to a school that is 80% male

- Current U.S. college student, child of an IIT graduate

[Anonymous]

Oops, forgot the last one

f. I don't speak Hindi (I only speak a regional Indian language), so I would not have any semblance of a social life

[Anonymous]

And that goes for any college in East Asia as well - China, Japan, Korea. The top ones are more selective with more grind than the ones here. Why do you think we have such a foreign contingent who is ready to pay EXORBITANT prices to study in the US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are out of your clueless mind. IIT is a lot more competitive than ivies. Not on the same level.

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Lol yep I went to Harvard and there is no way I would have passed the IIT entrance exam. I have seen it (for my own year).

[Anonymous]

Indian American here. I imagine it would be hard for a lot of kids raised in the US to navigate college life in India.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would an Indian American go to college in India?? That makes no sense.

It makes sense if they could actually get in, but that’s extremely unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Next up OP will ask (out of curiosity) why African Americans do not send their children to Africa for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oops, forgot the last one

f. I don't speak Hindi (I only speak a regional Indian language), so I would not have any semblance of a social life

IIT Madras
IIT Jabalpur

If you can speak English, you can go anywhere. F is not relevant.