Top 5% in America vs Top 5% in India is wild (How is having 95%ile not enough?)
Is it not crazy that there is no way a 95%ile will get you into one of the tier 2 engineering colleges in India in a core branch for a general category male?
By mid-tier, I mean a place where the average CSE branch package is around 12 LPA
I was comparing this to the American education system and the numbers were wild.
A top 5% student in the US can get into a BS CS program (=BTech) in college where the avg package is 80-90K$ (INR 20 LPA in India if adjusted to cost of living)
Then, the actual living standards on the college campus are another world with spacious hostels, clean bathrooms, nice food (or atleast no cockroaches in food), large campus, good recreational facilities, etc etc.
Another thing that makes me realize how absurd the JEE is, is that in order to get an average 20LPA in CSE, you need to be in the top 0.5% (99.5%) in JEE mains.