[Assam] Amazing Indian student migration

[umesh sharma]

I heard of genius Assamese now 38 yearold now going to become President of SAP India - who initially went to Delhu Univ to to bachelors in Science in 1987 and there heard of SAT (US college entrannce exam) and worked hard and got an amazing 1580 out of max 1600 (that was pre-internet) and landed a full scholarship to MIT. Later went to Harvard Business School and then on to many ventures - and finally to SAP. At 38 he would be the top guy to head Indian venture and likely to come to US and get further growth in US


I heard of GRE/GMAT only after going to Delhi. Even in 2002 when I wanted to by a GRE prep book there was none in the top bookstores in my hometown -- I prepared without one - relying on internet and www.grebible.com

There were indeed a few gys from my hometown who had gone to US for higher studies - but none went straight from my hometown itself. I think it is merely a big city phenomena and not surprisingly some big city students look down on "small city mentality guys" -ofcourse a few of them from metros still don't eat and drink and  lead amorous life like theire more modern US counterparts .

Umesh 

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote: Hi,

Some might be interested in it --esp if they are not from Indian metros. I went with my roommate to pick up 3 Indian students from Dulles Intl Airport in his old $3500 car purchased recently.- all came in same flight Qatar Airways --all from Mumbai. 

About 1,000 students from Delhi about 2,000 from Mumbai come to US each year to study - mostly masters in engineering etc -- mostly paid from own pocket -- perhaps higher real estate prices helps finance an education beyond the reach of most India (though in smaller govt run colleges tuition is less ($28,000 per master's dgeree and earn enough to pay for stay mostly ) and some get teaching assistantship - which is too less to be attractive for US students. IIT, Chicago (Illinois Int. of Technology) has taken in 2,000 students from India each year - my roommates tell me.

Two of them already were on lease (thru their classmates who had moved in our apartment complex last week) . I bet they must have  already seen the complex thru Googlemap and sen their airplane flight thru Google Earth software. 
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=9451+Lee+Hwy,+Fairfax,+VA+22031,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=38.867503,-77.269386&spn=0.003843,0.009956&t=h&z=17&om=1
This software wasn't there when I took my first plane flight (and also my first foreign trip) to come to US via Taiwan. 


Though I have been interacting with one Assamese girl who has just joined the univ here and is a juinor of one of my roommates after working in software engineering at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services - India's biggest IT company -- TCS has recruited 80 student's from Assam Engg College this year thru campus placement).  She has benefited from this student network also here.

More later.

Umesh

PS: On the other hand when I came to US I had never heard of anyone coming to US for higher studies - from my batch 
   

Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C.  

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )




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Umesh Sharma

Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )




http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
       
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