Some Words of Wisdom for Applicants from India January 5, 2012, 1:57 pm Given the growing and passionate interest of students from India in American universities - a recent New York Times article noted that Indians are now "the second-largest foreign student population in America, after the Chinese, with almost 105,000 students in the United States" - The Choice is undertaking a pilot project in collaboration with a new blog aimed at readers in India. The blog is called India Ink, and among its features will be regular postings drawing on content from The Choice - though tweaked a bit for young people and their families (and counselors) in India. Our inaugural post, which was published at 6 a.m. Thursday in New Delhi, is a Q&A with Eric J. Furda, the dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, and Patrick Bredehoft, who oversees admissions from India. While the exchange contains plenty of "news you can use" - including some that we know American students will find useful - this telling quotation from the two men from UPenn stood out, at least to me: Penn's regional director of admissions for India, Patrick Bredehoft, was amazed at the number of schools (U.S. and Canada) that were actively recruiting in India this fall. Penn continues to travel broadly and frequently to India, particularly when you factor in the significant recruitment being done by our alumni volunteers as well. If you're an international student in America reading this post, we hope you will pass it on to family members, friends and counselors back home. And if you've got suggestions for future posts in this series, you can publish them as comments on the India Ink post, or drop us an email at thechoicenyt@gmail.com.