vanillaice

hey!i'm not a singaporean but i studied in singapore for 2 and a half years.i went to cedar girls' for 2 years and went on to RJC,but i only went there for like 5 months and did just use my O levels to get into a liberal arts college in the US.in fact i got a full tuition scholarship.granted it's not the best college but still,i'm pretty satisfied.so yea,u can just finish ur o levels and come here but i guess it kind of limits ur choices.

G2O2

No, I'm not going on financial aid, had to rob a bank to get the money though =)

shoot

Hey im new here. From rj. this place seems to be filled with us! anyway i took my sat on jan 28th. So good luck to everyone who is getting back their results on 13th... hi G202! i know who u are!

woebegone

G202: dat's so wasted! since princeton is supposedly need-blind to internationals u wld have gotten in even if u applied for finaid!

vanillaice: which college are u at now?

shoot: welcome! have u applied to colleges yet... or r u only applying this yr? and gd luck for ur SATs!

shoot

Im applying this yr... And thanks!

vanillaice

im in lake forest college,which is this tiny little college by chicago.it's pretty good i think,however small and unknown it is.

jeremymjr

shoot: there are more important results than sats next week (if rumours are correct)! =p

primeminister

I'm getting SAT scores on Monday too!

Heard O-level results came out, but I guess you're all in JC/uni already?

woebegone

erm... i think she's refering to A Levels

woebegone

vanillaice... i don't mind going to most liberal arts colleges and lake forest college definitely sounds more than decent. at least for me, it really doesn't matter how 'prestigious' the LAC is not only because i think educational quality is probably good across most LACs but also because ppl at home (Singapore) know nothing about LACs. going to amherst makes no difference compared to going to lake forest college, coz most ppl haven heard of both... so yeah the day i decided that i want to go to an LAC i was prepared to disregard the prestige factor and accept questions like 'huh what's/where's that" from relatives and peers... i just hope i'll have the chance to answer such questions!

kenyon_10

I am sure you have the chance woebegone!! *still upset that you didnt apply to Kenyon even after the interview* Haha, anyway, I am surprised that so many princeton acceptees this year from ED arh? Rayyy, G020 + 2 other...

Yep, I did consider Lake Forest too cause they give out full tuition scholarships... But in the end, i didnt have the courage to apply!

woebegone

i'll feel claustrophobic in gambier!

kenyon_10

Haha, I know what you mean. But in terms of size, Kenyon has got one of the biggest campus among LACs I think. 1200 acres, with 350 acres of reserved forest And the thing is, the college population (1600) is larger than the population of Gambier (which amounts to a few hundreds only!!!)

shib

just curious, what did it take to get into Princeton?

woebegone

yeah she told me something about that... but it's really scary to think kenyon=gambier (well almost, i can't find the proper approximately equal sign on the keyboard )