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04-06-2008, 12:20 PM
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#601 | | Junior Member
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| wow limitedvocab so who's imba enough to get into both Harvard and Yale? *envious* | 
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04-06-2008, 12:27 PM
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| LOL, i know, right. he's having the most horrible time right now trying to decide between the two.
he's a scholar in one of the top JCs (not raffles or hwachong though, i must say. teehee) | |
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04-06-2008, 12:42 PM
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#603 | | Junior Member
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Originally Posted by purplepig anyway i got accepted to rice, emory, tufts, vassar and BU. which of these universities have a better name-recognition in singapore? | hmm honestly the average SGer knows nuts about overseas unis....even for the highly educated ones, the few major research unis in US are about all they've heard of
most of my peers (me included) never heard of rice, emory etc. i must say CC has been an eye-opening experience | |
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04-06-2008, 12:57 PM
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#604 | | Junior Member
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| Haha yeah CC is very very good. I knew what rice and emory were. But yeah, i didn't know that UC Irvine existed. CC is PRO. | |
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04-06-2008, 01:01 PM
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| i didn't know nuts about LACs before i discovered CC, and now i'm probably going to an LAC this fall. lol | |
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04-06-2008, 02:07 PM
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| heyy limitedvocab, any idea what got this amazing scholar into harvard AND yale? I'm really curious to know  | |
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04-06-2008, 10:36 PM
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| ^ yeah me 2....its not every day that someone whos not from RJ gets into the big H =) | |
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04-06-2008, 10:46 PM
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| i suppose he's got the usual stuff: excellent grades, leadership position/s in CCA, community service, research attachment, good SAT scores (though I dunno what he got exactly).
i think he really set himself apart from the pack with teacher/counsellor recos (everyone in school loved him, i think, lol) and essays. he's a very strong writer. | |
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04-08-2008, 08:40 AM
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| just an update, add 1 princeton and 1 stanford to my previous list. this is by no means exhaustive though | |
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04-08-2008, 10:34 AM
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| yeah i agree. that everyone seems to think that BU is the best school of out all those. except for the budding theatre actors who love vassar.
there was a girl who got into YPS and a RJ guy who got into YPSM. It was published in the newspapers. at that point in time, both were waiting for H. | |
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04-08-2008, 11:05 AM
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| actually the girls was from RJ and the guy was from HCI (PRC scholar) amazing people nonetheless  | |
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04-08-2008, 08:23 PM
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| er wats with the "nonetheless"? | |
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04-16-2008, 07:24 AM
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#613 | | New Member
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| hi fellow singaporeans.
wanted to start my own thread but thought i'd try to get help here first.
quick backstory. i'm male, currently serving ns and will enter uni in 2009. i've never considered going overseas all my life, up until several months ago. i was pretty set on going to the uk or somewhere in europe but recently i thought i'd look at the usa too.
thing is, i have only a vague idea of how the system works as in applications, the unis, the courses etc.
my a level results are nothing fantastic. AAC. no s papers. will i be able to get into a good uni ie. worth the tuition and living costs to study arts? i'm looking mainly at history, socio and maybe psych.
if so, any uni reccomendations?
what's the difference between private and public unis? i heard that it has something to do with aid but i'm not very sure.
is it cheaper to study in the us versus the uk?
fyi, if i stay local its either NTU mass comm or NUS fass.
hope to get your opinions! thanks. | |
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04-16-2008, 07:58 AM
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| ok i am not singaporean but i study in NUS . .. engineering. I had applied to the US .. in fact the school i come from is heavily swayed towards educaiton in the west. US unis .. U may need SAT / TOEFL .. TOEFL for England as well if i am not wrong. or IELTs. u ll have essays to write as well. the thing is LAC's .. liberal arts colleges in the states are really really good !!... it depends .. u just want to graduate .. study in singaland .. else maybe go abroad.. again it will be expensive .. u ll get financial aid though. UK is way more expensive, tuition fees and even cost of living !!! ... so i wud not go that way !! | |
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04-16-2008, 08:10 AM
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| i won't need TOEFL for uk.
i have the impression that for arts and humanities the UK would be better.
tell me more about LACs...i know there's alot of flexibility but i've heard bad things about it being WAY too general. as in arts is already general...liberal arts would make the degree even more 'worthless'?
about fin aid in the us...i'm clueless about this too. but i know of certain need blind unis...though i'd assume that only the cream of the crop of the international students qualify for fin aid at these unis. | |
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