Singaporean connection - Page 6

scandal-less · 01-12-2006, 06:51 AM

harvard: 42 people applied, 2 got in. rj stats.

updated stats are probably not avail online, they have it up on the us board in school thou. get ur rj friends to check.

eslite · 01-13-2006, 10:12 AM

Does anyone know if any SA people actually manage to get into the ivies?

yesh · 01-15-2006, 09:41 AM

hmm, i think the rjc04 michigan applicants did not do as well.. nowhere close to 98%

jeremymjr · 01-16-2006, 10:38 AM

i actually find rjc's university counselling really good, and the website is very informative as a starting point. my friend from hc told me she didn't know she had to take SATS II, and only found out from the hc humans people, though i still think it was just her.

speaking from personal experience, mr purvis seemingly works quite actively to turn off potential oxbridge applicants. he lost the form i had to fill in before i was "allowed" to apply, refused to give me an application form and told me i had no chance at cambridge (when he doesn't even know my name); i'm very glad i went ahead and applied anyway. i have friends who were dismissed by him (and eventually received offers from oxbridge), and one was even in tears after speaking to him.

as for ms yale, i think it's pretty unfair to expect her to counsel everyone who seeks her help - after all she doesn't even know them personally and besides, one-to-one counsellings should be about the details, not specifics. she was very helpful when i spoke to her, in fact, she was the one who approached me subsequently after i told her i was interested in US universities.

there are actually two other US counsellors, both of whom are very approachable (was taught by them and can vouch for that =p), and definitely much less busy than ms. yale. interestingly, one was educated at cambridge and the other at LSE.

scandal-less · 01-16-2006, 10:45 AM

jeremy, did you eventually get into oxbridge? i hope you did! prove that bugger wrong.

jeremymjr · 01-16-2006, 10:58 AM

i just got an offer from cambridge, but it's quite unbelievable; i keep fearing they sent it by mistake, pretty paranoid i know.
a few friends actually wanted to go back to rjc and wave the letter in his face. =p

scandal-less · 01-16-2006, 11:54 AM

congrats

are you gonna go there next year then? or are you gonna go to US instead.

danieleio · 01-17-2006, 06:03 AM

shucks i have purvis for lit... he seems really nice though, at least to us humans programme people

kenyon_10 · 01-17-2006, 06:18 AM

oh well... this is turning to a Rafflesian thread...

jeremymjr · 01-17-2006, 06:18 AM

scandal-less:
i'm most likely going to cambridge (grades permitting of course). unfortunately 31st march is the oxbridge reply date and us universities only offer on 1st april, so that's not much of a choice against a confirmed place and an unlikely chance.

danieleio:
i wasn't a humans student (unfortunately one of those who suffered from moe's caprice and admittedly comparatively poor o level grades =p), but apparently purvis is nice - that is if you are in his good books. i have a humans friend who he loved and she obviously liked him too, and yet another humans friend who hated his obnoxiousness towards her. one thing though, i do find purvis a very good literature lecturer. so are you taking history or geog? was one of the 38 who took geog my year.

danieleio · 01-17-2006, 10:04 AM

history... lol this really turned into a RJC thread. Anyway from what i've heard, all the teachers who are currently teaching me (the expat teachers), are mostly all living RJC legends (especially purvis, whose name generates many google results). really makes you keep awake in their classes

Really hope to end up at a good college like most of you here... oh well i'll just go enjoy my JC days while they last.

visceral_verve · 01-17-2006, 11:36 PM

Arghh, there is a suprising number of rafflesians here. I'm from RJ too.

Yeah, purvis was horrible. He kept rubbing it into our faces that only people with four As for prelims (sprinkled with a few distinctions and merits) will be considered for oxbridge and that the rest of us have absolutely no chance at all. Well, that completely put me off applying for oxbridge, kinda regret it now.

The only thing to do is wait for RD from the US universities. Really hope to get my choices. University appli is tedious and I'm just glad it's over.

scandal-less · 01-18-2006, 01:18 AM

o wow there really are ALOT of rj ppl. haha.

anyway umich's acceptance was 72%.

visceral_verve>> He kept rubbing it into our faces that only people with four As for prelims (sprinkled with a few distinctions and merits) will be considered for oxbridge and that the rest of us have absolutely no chance at all.

IMO, that is not true at all. stellar grades are a dime a dozen, but if you really have a hook, you will probably get in as well.

yesh · 01-18-2006, 09:31 AM

i'd say you need both stellar grades and a hook

kenyon_10 · 01-25-2006, 09:48 AM

http://blog.vjc.sg/2006/01/25/evil-s...talks/#more-77

Look at what adults are doing to frighten students off from applying to the States... sigh...

Wait till the admissions officers see the blog that my juniors have created!! I mean... wow I am impressed with my juniors. No doubt many Victorians do not have olympiads and such, but wow, they are a wonderful group of energy-charged students! I am so proud to be a Victorian!