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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A large part of the problem can be attributed to the great desire of international students to study here.  If you scan the wait lists (waiting for sCEA results) for Ivies and some of the great state schools and Tech Schools, you see a number of posts coming in from China and India from anxious students waiting to hear.  The overseas students apply to the schools they've heard about, just like we naturally would think of Oxbridge.  But, yeah, the schools DO want as many applicants as possible so as to drive down that selectivity number below 6%.  That's why SAT II tests were no longer requires but "strongly suggested".  The Ivies in competition for that no. one slot need as many applicants as possible (so they can turn them down) so decided "requiring" the SAT II was too restrictive so changed the language.  But you better submit them or else![/quote]
The top schools in those countries are way more competitive vs Yale. [/quote]

India?  Do you know some of those kids are so poor they can't even get to a test site, much less pay for one.  So they take MIT online courses to prove they can do the work.  Yes, there are wealthy indians but those that I've read on College Confdential are dying to come to any U.S. institution.[/quote]
Because it is easier to get into MIT or Yale vs IIT

[quote]The admissions test for the Indian Institutes of Technology, known as the Joint Entrance Examination or JEE, may be the most competitive test in the world. In 2012, half a million Indian high school students sat for the JEE. Over six grueling hours of chemistry, physics, and math questions, the students competed for one of ten thousand spots at India’s most prestigious engineering universities. ...
...Only two percent of students will be rewarded for their hard work. In 2012, Harvard accepted 5.9% of applicants. Top engineering schools MIT and Stanford had acceptance rates of 8.9% and 6.63%. The acceptance rate at the IITs, as represented by the pass rate in the JEE, was 2%. Every year, when the results are announced and the media swarms the accepted students, 490,000 students receive disappointing news. [/quote]
http://priceonomics.com/the-iit-entrance-exam/[/quote]

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