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Everyone who applies for admission to the United States as a refugee is subject to multiple layers of screening before being admitted to the United States.Someone may only apply to be admitted as a refugee from outside the United States. (Those already in the United States, or who present themselves at the US border, may instead apply for asylum.) Ordinarily, the applicant must not be in their country of original or habitual residence (the President's approval is required to override this requirement). Applications which come to the USRAP (United States Refugee Admissions Program) through the UNHCR, a US Embassy, or nongovernmental organization with an affiliation with USRAP are given priority over other applicants. If an applicant is determined to meet with the processing priorities determined by the President (in a Presidential Determination that the President signs and publishes each year, typically in late September), the applicant will be entitled to a consular interview.The consular interview will determine if the applicant is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country due to "persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion". Neither simple economic hardship, nor merely fleeing the adverse impacts of a natural or manmade disaster, will typically qualify. If the consular interview so determines, the individual will then be investigated, typically by at least DHS and the FBI, to determine if they are admissible to the United States and that their admission poses no national security threat. The security investigation is extensive and there is no specific limit on how long this investigation may take. There is also a medical examination.If the examinations determine that the applicant is admissible to the United States, and meets the qualifications to be considered as a refugee, the refugee will receive permission to enter the United States as a refugee and may also provide the refugee with assistance in getting to the United States. Once the refugee arrives in the United States, the refugee may (if eligible; most are) receive resettlement assistance and health care assistance for a period of up to one year.Refugee status, if granted, is valid for one year; after that year the refugee must either apply for permanent residency ("green card") or leave the United States. It is possible for the refugee whose year is running out to apply for asylum rather than allow their status to expire, but that means readjudicating the question as to whether the refugee is truly unable to return to their customary home.

A2A. Hi Dheeraj,Your stats look impressive.If you have 0 work experience, I am assuming that you are currently enrolled at an undergraduate program or are a recent undergraduate.You have two options apply to (1) Deferred admissions programs (2) Early Entry options.I. Deferred admissions programs:You have several options here. For eg. Yale’s Silver Scholar, HBS 2+2, ISB YLP, Darden’s Future Years etc.Quick crash course on Deferral MBA programs such as HBS 2+2 and Yale’s Silver Scholar:What is it? You apply in the final year of your undergrad program→ get accepted→ start the program usually a couple of years down the line.Examples: HBS 2+2, Yale’s Silver Scholar, Stanford’s Deferral program, Darden Future Years, IESE's Young Talent etc.What do you need to apply? GMAT, application (the most important part) and for several Indian student english language certification such as IELTS/TOEFL (you also need your transcript etc.)How difficult is the competition? For HBS 2+2 and Yale’s Silver Scholar the competition is intense. Not because the admissions standards are different, but the number of seats for international students are fewer.For eg. Here is a quick comparison between HBS and HBS (2+2)Though, the acceptance rates remain almost the same. There are two things you should notice (1) It is slightly more difficult for International students to get accepted to HBS 2+2 compared to HBS regular program (2) Most of the international students who get accepted to HBS 2+2 have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) as their undergraduate degree.The data remains almost the same for Yale’s Silver Scholar and Stanford as well.II. If you are a recent undergraduate, you could apply to (1) ISB Early Entry option (2) Duke’s MMM program (3) Apply to specialised Master’s programs. Again, this requires very limited experience.SOME APPLICATION TIPS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO GET INTO DEFERRED PROGRAMS:Start the process early: If you are serious about these schools, start the process early, preferably, ONE TO TWO years in advance. Here is why: if you are an undergraduate student, you are probably doing the same stuff as your peers. And, you need time and guidance to “build your profile”.Focus on one or two key activities: Building a profile does not mean that you try out everything. You don’t need to start a club, start a non-profit, volunteer at a shelter home, teach an underprivileged kids AND top all your exams. Don’t do all these things! Just pick one or two focus areas and get going. Here, you might need some help as to what activities should you pick based on your background.Know your strategy: From the data above, it is clear that HBS prefers STEM graduates over liberal arts folks. But, what if you are at SRCC and are targeting these programs? You must realise, based on your profile of course, what exact 2–3 things you must do to mitigate your perceived “analytical” weakness. Additionally, you need to critically analyse your profile and keep mitigating several such weaknesses.Know your story! In your application and interviews, you need to narrate your life via a story. Figure out what this story should be.Work with someone who knows the process: If it’s your friend or a family members, well and good. Just make sure that they know how the admissions to top business schools work and are aware of the latest trends. Don’t shy away from taking professional help.Hope this helps. Kindly consider upvoting.

Your question gets asked, in one form or another, many times a day during the fall. As I write, admission officers from hundreds of schools are covering cities in every State in the US as well as hundreds of cites across the globe in search of students. In my travels when I served as director of international admission, I heard many versions of the answer to this question from representatives of the most selective schools in the US. My answer, however, will try to provide a frame in which the answer branches into world we live in now.Whether we know it or not, most of us are Platonists. As Alfred North Whitehead famously said, all subsequent philosophy can be interpreted as a footnote to Plato. I for one think this is unfortunate. Plato’s great idea was the Ideal. He created another world in which everything on earth was but a pale shadow (see the allegory of the cave in The Republic for more on this) of the Ideal forms that exist, actually exist, somewhere. As a bit of mythmaking this approach to things—to the world—led to Western civilization judging the world by how any particular thing measures up the perfection of the Ideal.The search for perfection has led to all sorts of disappointments. The perfect place, mate, or school does not exist despite the way ratings games place people places and thngs on lists of what is best or what approaches most closely the Ideal.To me, however, and to admission offices, at least at some places, Plato’s approach does not work all that well. Why? I think most who work in highly selective admission do not have a template for what THE ideal student is.Valedictorian of the top secondary school in the world, 2400 SAT, 22 APs, captain of national winning football/crew team, founded a start up company listed on NYSE but gave all proceeds to charity, medal of valor for saving families from floods in Colorado, (as well as kitty cats from trees) who also happens to be a left-handed mix of African American, Latino, Native American and a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Confucius, and Gandhi who has been raised by neighbors after he or she (or transgendered) was living in a homeless shelter after his parents died one of suicide after having been abusive to the rest of the family and the other killed by a drunken driver. His or her science research has been published in Science magazine. A feature film 'Bootstrap", based on his or her multimillion selling autobiography will be out released just in time for the Holidays with a cast including Brad Pitt, Frieda Pinto, Jonny Depp, Rihanna, Aishwarya Rai and Gong Li, co-directed by Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, and Abbas Kiarostamiwith a musical score by Daft Punk, Bob Dylan, XX, PSY, and Miley Cyrus. He or she, of course, played at least one instrument on each track and will have the lead vocal on the song that opens with the credits. And he or she will, of course, play himself or herself-- the Oscar buzz is already the subject of stories Buzzfeed, Huffington etc. etc.Get real. Forget the ideal. The ideal person described above does not exist. If you begin to compare yourself to this ideal you will find yourself feeling inadequate. People are flawed; that’s what makes us work for things. We need to learn from our mistakes as much as our successes (if not more). If you are thinking that I do not believe in role models, then you would be wrong. But role models are real people who lived in the world. Having high goals and role models, scientific research and data demonstrate, leads to success. But having an impossible ideal to measure yourself against is not useful or pragmatic.In Part II, I promote what I think is a more useful way of thinking about what schools look for and how best to think of ways to approach the process without as much stress and without having a perfect/impossible ideal to compete with.IIPlato was around for 2000 years before the US came into being. But the latecomers to the world of thinking came up with something I would encourage schools, students and just about everyone else to think about. C.S. Pierce and William James, a little over a century ago, founded a school of philosophy called Pragmatism. They dismissed the Platonic ideal as an unsuccessful and at times harmful way to measure the world. Instead of playing with Plato, they dismissed his Ideal and posited a new approach: is something, even something imperfect, as all things in the world must must be, useful to a task or thought? If so, then it does not matter whether it is even ‘true’ let alone an ‘Ideal'.Why this mini-lesson in philosophy? Admissions officers are, or at least should be, pragmatists rather than Platonists. Most admission deans do not bother to look for the impossible—the ideal student—since he or she does not exist. Instead they ask: Is this particular student useful to our institutional needs? This questions leads to decisions and thinking at odds with those who search for an ideal.Let’s start with the basics. Admission officers work for a particular school and the school has concrete needs. What these various and at the same time specific needs consist of will largely determine the kinds of students they accept. The needs vary from school to school, but here are a few that almost all selective schools pay attention to:PointyIs a student smart? Smart is not easily defined but in college admission it still gets quantified. A student taking challenging courses, earning top grades and doing well on a range of tests (SAT or ACT or AP or IB or A level etc.), with strong teacher recommendations and strong support from a school counselor ends up in the smart pile. Those having the top scores, programs and performance are often accepted to selective schools largely based on academic potential.But there are different ways of demonstrating intellectual promise and the old standby cliché ‘academic passion’. A student who has done exceptionally well in the sciences, has performed research and taken part in science competitions and received recognition often is not a great athlete will stand a great chance of getting into top schools which offer engineering or research based science. Almost all Intel semifinalists end up with great places to go whether or not they’ve done all that much except prepare for this competition.Sometimes this happens but it is rare. But admission officers are, as I have said, pragmatic. They look at what strengths a student brings and evaluate them. If the school wants great future scientists, then they may accept a student who has never participated in a sport or never done all that much outside of his or her passion. The common terms for this kind of student is pointy, not as in the pointy-headed intellectual as pointy describes other kinds of students too.Instead, they create a class of students with different talents, backgrounds, and worldviews. A student who is remarkably gifted as a writer will be not be expected to be a science whizz kid too. But this writer must compete against all the other students who have been identified as great writers and must be near the top of the stack.In other words, an applicant pool does not exist as an aggregate to an admission office. This highly selective admission process should be, at least in some ways, reassuring to students. One never competes against the whole applicant pool. Rather one competes in the group one is placed in.SpecialsOn the other hand, some groups are much better to be in than others. Legacies, under-represented students, and, to a lesser degree, students who demonstrate ‘grit 'tend to get a significant boost in the admission process—just look at the acceptance rates for these groups for proof.For example, a student who is a reasonably good student, but who has the talent to bring home a championship in a sport the school loves, will then go to the top of the pile of that subset of students.UnspecialsMembership in some groups also means that the chances of being offered admission to highly selective schools will be even harder than the published school profiles often indicate.Here are just two examples:A person in admission for 3 decades I knew well used to joke, politically incorrectly, about how bad it was to be a “girl from New Jersey” when applying to selective schools. It was not that he disliked the Garden State or females. Instead, demographics came into play. There are thousands of great female students in New Jersey who attend at great secondary schools. Females do better than males academically and New Jersey is densely populated but does not have a large number of state schools to keep them near home. Colleges cannot admit that they practice a form of affirmative action for men but an article in the New York times from an admission office at a liberal arts school admission officer admitted as much. Schools want to keep a balance between males/female ratios even if this means that they may hold females to higher academic standards. The same thinking goes into school’s efforts to get geographical diversity. Schools who want a national reputation need to show on their profiles that they draw students from all across the country. A student from Montana (the typical State named in discussions about this form of grouping) stands a better chance of admission that a student with virtually the same academic credentials from New Jersey. The thinking goes like this: a student is more than scores. Growing up on Montana will affect the thinking, experience, and outlook of an individual. Having people from different places will make the overall educational conversation on a campus more inclusive and wide-ranging. Whether this actually is measurable in any way is another matter. Or whether someone from Montana is inherently more diverse than someone from Teaneck or Trenton is a subject for debate, but at least at present the place someone lives does affect the chances for admission. Given that very few students apply from certain states to schools far away from hone means that they will be measured against the best students from their state rather than simply against the whole applicant pool. Some schools pay far more attention to geography than others, but the chances of being admitted from Montana with somewhat lower academic credentials are verifiable should the schools ever release the data to the public.Students from China applying to Ivies face enormous challenges. The stats show that Asians as a group have to earn significantly higher scores on tests in order to be accepted. But it doesn’t stop there for students from China. Because schools limit the overall number of international students they admit, those who apply from countries with huge numbers of applicants face greater challenges. In some cases the acceptance rate forChinese students to some schools are under 1%. Schools will not publish this information as then fewer students would apply and that would possibly mean they would miss out on a great student they wanted. Or more realistically, it would mean their application numbers would drop and this would hurt their selectivity ranking in the US News.***********************************************************************Lots of people do not like the fact that schools choose students based upon groups. But schools are not alone in favoring groups. We all do it at some level whether in terms of friendships, jobs, or life partners.Colleges and universities stress that the admission process is based on an assessment of each applicant as an individual. What I have written here would seem to undermine this assertion, but things are not quite so simple. Students are looked at as individuals but they are looked at as individuals who are also part of groups.The groups are divided in ways I have outlined but within the groups students are given a close look for individual achievement and abilities. I have said here before that the world exists far more on the axis of both/and rather than either/or and in the case of groups vs. individuals I would again ask that people looking to critique or learn about admission understand that there is room for paradox and overlapping yet differing approaches.Mutually exclusive thinking rather than pragmatic compromises often predominate political thinking these days but the challenge of trying to do many things well—bringing in lots of different great students with great being defined differently, seems a good way to, as the pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty said repeatedly , "muddle through" the infinite complexities of issues and life.