Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!murali From: murali@cvl.UUCP (Muralidhara Subbarao) Newsgroups: net.nlang.india Subject: Re: Getting a visa in Madras Message-ID: <609@cvl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 15:31:41 EDT Article-I.D.: cvl.609 Posted: Thu Jul 4 15:31:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:44:52 EDT References: <265@CS-Mordred> Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 22 > > Of course, I didn't have to see the "tough lady" .... > > Rumours about Madras being realy bad are not all true. > Out of 19 IIT Madras students who had applied for a visa by June 15th this year (some of them had admissions to some of the finest graduate schools in US) only 3 had been issued visas (two for Physics and one for Math). Others are waiting and hoping that the situation will change. Is this not bad enough? > Presence of mind and a certain degree of fatalism help. > Think that your chances are 50-50. Fatalism helps only to console yourself if the visa is refused, not to get one. At present, I guess, the chances of getting a visa is more like 10-90. Murali.