Unlike getting a plurality of IITians together. ;) In the US, ACT/SAT scores and # of acceptance letters/incentives are the closest to undergrad bragging right

Unlike getting a plurality of IITians together. ;) In the US, ACT/SAT scores and # of acceptance letters/incentives are the closest to undergrad bragging rights/proxy for rank. There are numerous competitions in varous academic subjects, but no official/harder national ordering/score system. Next, in US universities, more areas than just test scores are used to build an internal student candidate evaluation packet in the acceptance filtering processes to select people using more than test scores alone. Finally, the vast majority of US students aren't used to actual hard work... this is the real productivity / aptitude / capability killer.