“The higher education system in the US is different from that of India and Indian students who seek admission in highly-competitive programs in American universities should prepare themselves well in order to achieve their goal,” said Shanthi Charath Mohan, Coordinator, EducationUSA, Unites States India Education Foundation (USIEF), at a day-long boot camp on higher education in the US, held at KCG College of Technology, Chennai. “Plagiarism will not be tolerated by American universities and therefore students learn to write everything, including their Statement of Purpose (SOP), on their own,” she added.
In his address, Principal Dr G Prabhakaran highlighted the need for pursuing higher studies and encouraged the students to prepare for competitive exams such as GRE, GATE, TOEFL and IELTS.
The boot camp focused on the five steps to US education: researching options and shortlisting universities, financing studies, completing the application, applying for a US student visa and preparing for departure to the US. The participants also had a workshop on how to write statement of purpose.
The Higher Education and the International Affairs cells of the college jointly organized the boot camp. Fifty students from various departments attended the program.
