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Anything could be true. But this sounds like episodic evidence to me.
Is there any statistical figures to back up such claims? A whole lot
of people say a whole lot of things: in the 21st century, these get
politely labelled as "urban legends". In Goa, they would have been
called kanneo. Or just gossip. FN
On 17/10/06, Roland Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I happened to be in conversation in Toronto with a Goan father of a
> young lad studying at Harvard and he was mentioning thus:
>
> As part of their undergraduate studies, in the third year Harvard,
> Yale and in fact some more Ivy League schools are requiring their
> business students to spend a year of studies in a comparable level
> school in developing countries. For India therefore, the IITs are a
> natural choice. In exchange, they are allowing the IITans to spend a
> year in their own universities.
>
> It appears that an entrance exam is required both ways and when they
> are scored, the Harvarders and Yalies failed the IIT tests while the
> IITans aced the US universities' tests.
>
> Could this really be true?
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