Posted on September 15 2014
A few months ago, Rimi Khanna (name changed), studying Maths honors at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi, approached CollegeCore Education for guidance for transfer to a US college.
"She did not find her course engaging enough. Nor did she like the crowd," says Urvashi Malik, founder and managing director at education services firm CollegeCore Education. Rajat Agarwal from Calcutta wanted admission into St Xavier's College.
However, the high cutoff could only fetch him a berth in B-grade colleges, which he was not willing to enter. Finally, Agarwal got admission into the University of Warwick in the UK, which was willing to provide him a berth with their cut-off of around 85%-86%, lower than the 92%-93% or even 100% required to get into the top league Indian colleges, says Rohan Ganeriwala, co-founder at Collegify, an admission consultant.
Salil Singh, secured admission into Hindu College as well as Cornell University last year, although he did not manage to get a full scholarship. So he studied in India for a year, applied again this year and got into Brown University with a full scholarship. "He thought he deserved better," says Ganeriwala of Collegify, where Sahil had gone for guidance for overseas admission.
Also, universities abroad give more flexibility in combining subjects. For instance, a person studying physics can combine it with music. "The subject choices abroad are meant to grow your worldview," says Ganeriwala.
Rica Bhattacharyya & Anumeha Chaturvedi
Sep 9, 2014,
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-09-09/news/53730704_1_delhi-university-uk-undergraduate-level
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