I got admitted to a college CS undergrad program ; Veterans , tell me what it's like

[St Leo]

Originally posted by DanS
Congrats.

But get control of those commas, ASAP.

That's standard commas usage in India, actually. You can set Windows to comma things that way in Regional Settings.

[Imran Siddiqui]

[q=Elok]A lot of people I know said they only went to college for the Pune-tang.[/q]

[Kuciwalker]

Imran! Show yourself in the HP thread!

[DanS]

Originally posted by St Leo
That's standard commas usage in India, actually. You can set Windows to comma things that way in Regional Settings.

Yikes!

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by aneeshm
Pune is one of the four or five educational hubs of the country ( the others being Bangalore , Hyderabad , and Mumbai ) .

Bangalore

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by DanS
If you don't mind, how much does that university cost? I'm curious.

It's a public university?

The college itself does not receive government money - it is Un-Aided . The university it is affiliated to is a government one - the University of Pune .

Its fees are around 50,000 Rs. ( $ 1,111.11 ) per year .

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Lodi

There is also people being persecuted and decided against due to the caste system. Although the caste system is illegal, it still exists psychologically. I hear that some of the people from the higher status castes get prejudiced against due to old grudges. Would you say this is at least somewhat correct for some cases?

You are correct . The state is prejudiced against the higher castes .

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - who have traditionally been discriminated against - have been given a flat 23 % quota in colleges . Thus , a college with 100 seats has to fill 23 of them with SCs or STs . If there are not enough applicants , or enough applicants who meet the criterion - then those seats stay vacant . Nobody else can fill them . The SCs and STs , however , are allowed to compete purely on the basis of merit , in the general catgory , if they so want .

Now a law has been passed , which I consider retarded , to give a quota to even normal castes , who were never discriminated against , because they , when they had the chance to leave the villages and join the cities , did not do so , and thus remained backward . These are mainly the land-owning castes . This brings up the reservations to 50 % - which means that people of high caste ( like I am ) or even normal caste have to face double the competetion , because we have less than half the seats available to us .

[Asher]

Not sure if it's the same in India as it is in Canada, but your first two years will probably be mostly mathematics.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
2nd in the US

I told you , I can't afford it . If I could , I would . I've seen the SAT papers you people take . They're pathetic by Indian standards . The individual subject tests , however , are good , but still slightly easier than the AIEEE examination we have to take . We have to finish 40 mathematics , 55 physics , and 55 chemistry questions , the total time for which is three hours .

Anyway - here is a link to the AIEEE paper which I took this year ( PDF ) : http://www.cf12plus.com/AIEEE'06%20Question%20Paper.pdf

Try it out . It has a marking scheme of 3+ , 1- . Some questions have more marks than others . You might like it .

If the USA was an affordable place for Indians , we would dominate all US universities - there's just so many more of us .

EDIT : WTF ? The link isn't working . I'll post it as it is .

[DanS]

What makes you think that Indians don't already dominate US universities?

[Zkribbler]

Re: I got admitted to a college CS undergrad program ; Veterans , tell me what it's like

Originally posted by aneeshm
So anyway - what can the veterans of comp. sci. undergrad programs tell me about it ?

First of all, congrats on the fastastic scores

At one time, I was concentrating on Computer and Information Services, but at that time, we were using punch cards, so I don't know how much useful experience I can pass down. Er... if you can't find the on/off switch to the card punching machine, look on its right leg.

[aneeshm]

I'm a lucky bastard in another regard . The college which I got admitted into is one which was , till this year , a girls' college . Thus , our batch is the first mixed batch . The end result - all our seniors are girls , so the ragging problem will be minimal , if not nonexistent . And there is , or course , the other benefit .

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by DanS
What makes you think that Indians don't already dominate US universities?

I know I did

[pchang]

Originally posted by DanS
What makes you think that Indians don't already dominate US universities?

Because in the US, the Indians have to compete against the Chinese students.

[Drake Tungsten]

The college which I got admitted into is one which was , till this year , a girls' college . Thus , our batch is the first mixed batch .

Pune-tang indeed. This must be the greatest college in the world; even the computer science guys are going to get laid at this place!