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[QUOTE=indian_at_heart;670966]Congratulations to your daughter! She is well on her way to a bright future! Where would you place the importance of internships in the UCB selection criteria? Nice to have or critical? Do these have to be research internships with paper publishing etc. or any summer ...

we were also surprised to see Berkeley decision so early, we expected in mid/end March, then we learned that Berkeley has offered early admission notification to 20% of students, so there are 80% decisions still to come.
I am not sure if this is due to our residency in So Cal

My daughter got accepted to Electrical and Computer Science (undergrad) at UC Berkeley, in state candidate. for capped majors top UCs need: Good grades Grades (>4.3 weighted GPA), decent SAT score (>1500), >10 APs, 2-3 relevant internships/volunteer activities. A lot to expect from high schooler ...

[QUOTE=Desi;665010]So we have barbarism even today (the Thackerays, the Gujarat 2002, the encounters in Maharashtra and Gujarat, Adityanath, Advani's trek to Babri Masjid, etc etc).[/QUOTE] Why selective examples? why not cite examples like genocide of minorities in J&K in 1990s? Above examples show ...

[QUOTE=layman;664903]So, what? Leave alone Kutb or Taj. Let us say all the Mughal structures in India is built destroying Hindu temples, [B]what are you going to do[/B]? [/QUOTE] No action, but donot deny history and hide facts for appeasement. Accept the fact that Hindu temples were purposely ...

Have you ever been to Qutub Minar? I have been there two times, I recommend visiting once to see how a large Jain temple was razed to build it, will not need to explanation as one can clearly see idols all over, the builders tried their best to deface them. Clearly past governments never tried to ...

I thought STAAR is graded on curve, I am in CA so I am not very familiar with TX standards

[url]http://tea.texas.gov/student.assessment/staar/convtables/[/url]

[QUOTE=Chakraan;629230]US also have standardize test from 3rd grade. In Texas it is called [URL="http://communityimpact.com/austin/leander-cedar-park/education/2016/04/15/tea-approves-early-college-hs/"]STAAR[/URL]. It is like a board exam which begins from 3rd grade, in India the first board exam ...

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I am hoping to see a complaint soon that Obama didn't agree to meet me (when you can do that with Modi as CM for publicity, you can do that with Obama too right? :) )[/QUOTE]

Obama and BJP mile hue hain! :))

[QUOTE=nriincal;588730]If you have read the heading it says 'things that annoy you in America' and the housing in America very much annoys me n so here are my views! if you want to praise any thing and every thing in America, please take the pain to start your own thread and leave my reply alone ...