[Assam] Network is God: ? Q&A -journey - Indian High School to Harvard College

Fri Sep 7 02:45:13 CDT 2007

it seems each year about 100 students of DPS RK Puram , Delhi go abroad for studies including to or three to Harvard, Yale, Stanford etc with full schol.

http://www.dpsrkp.net/intladmissions05.htm
why not from other parts of India - why get stuck ....

Umesh

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote: read backwards - and  deduce for yourselves. The highest SAT score is 2400 out of 2400 (new version). This is from Facebook -a popular network created by a college student at Harvard who graduated last year. These schools (in India etc) have the network and then info is power - so help build the network so others can also benefit.

Umesh Sharma wrote
at 3:06am
I checked the weather for you quite chilly in the mornings 19 degrees celcius in Boston. your SAT scores are really good.!!
I am sure your Harvard grades would be similar level too.
Best wishes.

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at 2:50amGot a wind cheater. My SAT scores were 2360 in SAT I, and 2380 in SAT II.

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at 2:49amOh, that's not a cause for worry. I've been in debating for hell long, and have a  reasonably clear speech. I've spoken in international meets, so the accent's not a problem. While I don't have an American accent, I can be reasonably proud of me speaking skills, no problem with clarity...My flight jumps at 15 minutes past midnight, that's a nice coincidence about the dates, haha. Thanks...

Umesh Sharma wrote
at 2:42am
its a coincidence but it seems you are catching the flight to Harvard the same date as I did three years ago (neary) - I got inside the IGI airpot on Sep 3rd night and boarded the flight at 4am Sep 4th 

Happy and safe journey.

Umesh

Umesh Sharma shared a link
at 2:24am
it seems you are still in India - I saw some  wall post on your profile -- you may want to get a wind cheater atleast for the chilly mornings -- check the weather on www.timeanddate.com or www.weather.com for boston . For speaking just speak slower - we Indians tend to speak English too fast - perhaps to show that we can indeed speak in English. Americans speak more slowly - it is still relative though. Try to speak like the news readers - each syllable clearly -- I have improved a lot - I teach verbal and Math to American students - from some of the best schools in US - so faced the cultural challenge as well. 

My flight to Harvard was my first plane flight ever but I guess it wont be as challenging for you. Although I didn't study at the college I spent most of my time at undergrad libraries and worked with Harvard Dorm Crew and Widener library .
What was your SAT score and other achievement if I may ask - you may email me (as message) if you wish.

timeanddate.com

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at 2:14amWell, it is a trend to apply abroad, but Harvard's VERY stingy in admissions, this year there are only two people from India(the other guy's from Kolkata), any other "Indians" are US citizens, which basically means they're Americans far as admission is concerned...I think Harv's a lot more open about grad students..millions of folks here have US MBA degrees..

Umesh wrote:
just out of curiosity - how many students from India are in your 2011 batch? Is it a growing trend for undergrad from Indian metros. These days I am  staying in Fairfax, Virginia just outside Washington DC and about 100 Indian students arrived here in Aug and staying in the same apartment complex as me all here for grad school in computers at www.gmu.edu

Umesh Sharma wrote
at 2:08am on September 2nd, 2007
I know a Mumbai boy who came to Harvard College for undergrad - now in Silicon Valley in computers Sanjay Mawankare - he runs the orkut site of Harvard univ grads.

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at 2:06am on September 2nd, 2007ok. got that.

Umesh Sharma shared a link
at 2:05am on September 2nd, 2007
www.ashanet.org has chapter at MIT as well. I went to Delhi Univ for college - graduated in 1994- in eco  hons

Umesh

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at 2:05am on September 2nd, 2007undergrad in India?

Umesh Sharma shared a link
at 2:04am on September 2nd, 2007
I graduated from Harvard's Grad school of Education in 2005 now on work visa in DC teaching High School students and volunteering at www.ashanet.org they

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at 2:01am on September 2nd, 2007So are you a grad student or what? Right now, you're in the States? Where didja do your undergrad?

Umesh Sharma wrote
at 1:59am on September 2nd, 2007
Hey!!
Its a small world!

Umesh

 wrote
at 1:50am on September 2nd, 2007
My ma's from Jaipur.

Umesh Sharma wrote
at 1:46am on September 2nd, 2007
looking at your Napean Sea Road photos I gathered you are from Mumbai. I grew up in Jaipur though have relatives all over India.

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at 1:22am on September 2nd, 2007Lord, I was at RK Puram for two years...not a big fan of Mrs. Chona, I'll admit(long as you have no way of telling her I said that...ha!). I'm from Mumbai actually. Where are you from?

Umesh Sharma wrote
at 1:20am on September 2nd, 2007
Dear  Siddhant,

Nice to see you at Harvard. I recall meeting Mrs Chona the Delhi Public School RK Puram principal in 1991 hoping to learn from DPS RKP. Glad to meet a grad from that school now at Harvard College.

Best.

Umesh

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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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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