EnterTheVoid Posted June 7, 2012 Author Posted June 7, 2012 Shwetabh, didn't you go to Caltech/Carnegie Mellon for post graduate studies?
Crookbond Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 We are supposed to be world class because we are the most selective. Everyone in the country has heard the numbers, one out of 50 or something to that effect, while Harvard admits one out of 10. Are we really comparing apples with apples. Harvard tells you all the parameters that they will look at for admission. They give you statistical details of some of those parameters from last year's admission (parameters which are objective like SAT score). While in case of IITs, there is only one parameter, which is unknown at the time of application, which is the JEE rank. I think the problem with IIT system is that they are satisfied with being the best in the country. And whenever anyone points out that your parameters are not what the best in the world have achieved, there is a ready made excuse - money. Double our salaries, type of thing. IITs are not doing sufficient introspection to see if they could have met the expectation of our nation to a fuller extent within the same resources. http://dsanghi.blogspot.in/2011/05/are-iits-world-class.html
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