International competition

GuiltyBystander
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:19:07 +0000

I’m not sure about other regions - Latin America could be considered as a whole, since it is more homogeneous?? I don’t know - but I have good reason to believe Singapore is considered separately from other SEA nations like Vietnam. That’s cause the education system in Vietnam is largely different - for one, the primary language of instruction is Vietnamese.



That’s not true, adcoms consider all the countries in Eastern Asia as just one region (China, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore etc.), If I remember correctly, even India is in this category.

I don’t think gaining admission has become that much harder for international students from other, more underrepresented, regions, maybe our changes have even increased, because adcoms desperately want to maintain diversity (since a increasingly bigger share of the competitive! applicants is from South-East Asia or is Asian in general)