Infozee is a one-stop shop for International education. We would like to address an important issue relevant to all Indian students applying for graduate programs. Most schools have a quota for international students, which is unofficially further broken down into quota for each country depending on the applications received. Though there is no strict and official rule on this and the school may accept more students from the same country if they are exceptional, but in normal cases, this is rare.
Most schools like to have a diverse student culture.
For example, School A will have a quota of 4 Indian students in Industrial engineering after receiving a certain number of applications. If you have two candidates from your undergraduate program that have better GRE scores and GPA, you are almost certainly out of the game. It would be smart to save that application fee for a university where you have a better chance of applying. Well, you cannot. What you can do is try and work with other candidates in your school to at least make sure that you don't compete with a student from the same undergraduate program.