1. In the USA, if a man is from a village, he thinks of helping his village. Most of them ritually send some money to their school back home, set up some scholarship and do something nice. (Some asks for donation to do that, but that is another story). I have heard very few men from Kathmandu who talked about helping their school or neighborhood. Some of them even avoid Nepali gathering. (I believe Pukar Malla of St Xavier is an exception:) He is definitely a patriotic good man!)

2. BNKS and St Xaviers had monopoly over top schools and scholarship. Interestingly, even when people from outside districts who went to BNKS came to the USA, they have rarely shown the zeal to improve their districts. All that expenditure on them by the govt hasn't borne any fruition so far. I even read of a scam about donation to a library by BNKS students in a remote district which never materialized. In fact, their zeal to work for collective welfare is so pathetic that they were occasionally unable to pay for their own office expenditure back in KTM...(Correct me if I am wrong)

3. Meanwhile, if one is to admit the hypothesis that intelligence is uniformly distributed among population, then a large fraction of Nepali outside these elite schools are working quietly in their own field and excelling. One wonders where are those excellent product of BNKS[who are not in USA] on whom the state spent so much? Why dont' we see them leading Nepali people in politics, industry and so on?[I am sure those with heirloom have established some leadership position in industry, but how many have excelled on their own?]

 

 I once met a student from BNKS who wanted to go to Nepal and run in election, but he was speaking with slightly affected English peppered all over his Nepali conversation. I was wondering whether the guy knows that Nepali people want you to be able to speak in folksy tone to vote for you. It is your ability to speak in THET Nepali--ukhan tukka laden Nepali-- that counts in Nepal. Excel in your field, but retain your identity. 

4. Back to RBS and BNKS, this year BNKS school have no good placement in undergraduate program, and it is probably a big disappointment for all of them. RBS has one good aspect that I really admire: Dixits tell all their students that they must come back to Nepal. They are trying to create a good manpower for the country. Dixits themselves have gone back after getting a good education from a top school in the states. If they are taking money from other riches, I have no jealousy regarding this. It is a free market, people pay what they can and what they are willing to. Dixits also have a responsibility to build a world class product from their school, after taking a good amount of money, and they have done that. 

5. I doubt the veracity of these allegations against RBS, it looks more like an allegation coming from disgruntled BNKS students. Given BNKS itself had a history of padding the resume of their students, and their students engaging in proxy SAT test taking, one is inclined to dismiss such allegation immediately. Personally, I think RBS may be involved in such practice, but it may be in 'acceptable' level;i.e. same as feeder schools in Boston and Cupertino might do to their school. Look, at the end of the day, getting into Harvard is an international competition.