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Indians 2nd largest foreign student population in US NEW DELHI: When Moulshri Mohan applied to colleges, she received scholarship offers of $20,000 from Dartmouth and $15,000 from Smith. Her pile of acceptance letters would have made any teenager smile: Cornell, Bryn Mawr, Duke, Wesleyan, Barnard and the University of Virginia. But because of her 93.5% cumulative score on her final board exams, Moulshri was rejected by top colleges at Delhi University. Daughter now enrolled at Dartmouth! her mother, Madhavi Chandra, wrote, updating her Facebook page. Strange swings this admission season has shown us. Cant get into DU, can make it to the Ivies. Moulshri, 18, is now one of a surging number of Indian students attending American colleges and universities, as competition in India has grown formidable, even for the best students. This summer, Delhi University issued cutoff scores that reached a near-impossible 100% in some cases. The Indian Institutes of Technology have an acceptance rate of less than 2% - and that is only from a pool of roughly 500,000 who qualify to take the entrance exam. The problem is clear, said HRD minister Kapil Sibal, who studied law at Harvard. There is a demand and supply issue. You dont have enough quality institutions, and there are enough quality young people who want to go to only quality institutions. American universities and colleges have been more than happy to pick up the slack. Faced with shrinking returns from endowment funds, a decline in the number of high school graduates in the US and growing economic hardship among American families, they have stepped up their efforts to woo Indian students thousands of miles away. Representatives from many of the Ivy League institutions have begun making trips to India to recruit students and explore partnerships with Indian schools. Some have set up offices in India, partly aimed at attracting a wider base of students. Back |
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