look at this high sch's college admission rate! shocking!

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<p>Honestly Bearcats, you’re overlooking a lot of factors.</p>

<p>Raffles Junior College admits students ONLY because of their O level results, or nowadays, because of the six year program whereby students from Raffles Girls School and Raffles Institution follow up their Junior College education (in the first place, only the top 1.5% of singaporeans get into raffles girls and Raffles Insti.)</p>

<p>No one gets in because of money, and no is denied a place because of a lack of money. The singapore education system charges students like $ 12 a month for education and maybe about $200 a month at the top schools, which are referred to as private, even though it’s actually a goverment school whereby admission is completely based on capability.</p>

<p>They work you hard there. VERY very hard. RJC is the top school outside the US in terms of getting their students to Ivy League. So yeah, it’s the Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Wycombe Abbey of Singapore.</p>

<p>As far as we’re concerned, we have some great oppurtunities in RJC and resources, so yes, I think it’s fair to say that in term of status, it’s very much comparable to all the above mentioned schools.</p>

<p>Only difference is that the fees isn’t 25000 dollars per semester, but $200 (of which 90% of us only pay $ 12 because we all get scholarships for grades- this particular scholarship isn’t based on need)</p>

<p>Also, another difference is probably the sprawling grounds you’ll have. We have a very decent school and it’s fairly large, but not as glamorous as your boarding schools (refer to fees!)</p>

<p>Please don’t be so critical of the school and get so offended when someone compares it with yours.</p>

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<p>Guy, guys relax. I went to RJC in Singapore and as far I can tell, not everyone applies to the US. The UK shares a large proportion of the applications too. </p>

<p>The main competitive places RJC students love are NUS Medicine, Law, double degree programs etc… Oxbridge universities (Oxford admits abt 17, Cambridge admits abt 30 many more to Imperial, LSE etc). HYPSM is rather coveted but ultra selective. A sizable portion of the cohort ends in the US. </p>

<p>And yes, its sad but true that Cornell is the sort of safety for high scorers. And Michigan for everyone who applies to the US. According to totally anecdotal evidence (teacher conversation), out of the 100+ people that get into Michigan, only about less than 7 enroll. The rest end up at more selective places or choose some university in Singapore.</p>

<p>RJC is nominally independent and charges S$200, only about the top 5% (figures varies year to year) of the students from the O levels get in. The environment is certainly intense. People are brilliant everywhere (coming my experience of someone from a neighbourhood secondary school - read: usually regarded as inferior in Singapore) and not much worse at extracurricular activities, sports and varied artistic and musical activities.</p>

<p>For more info: The Wiki, <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_Junior_College[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_Junior_College&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>oK, so there was my collection of random informative facts about RJC
(background info: I got into Stanford, Brown, Duke, NUS medicine etc…)</p>

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<p>“Please don’t be so critical of the school and get so offended when someone compares it with yours.”</p>

<p>i think i just felt misled and sensed dishonesty the way they reported statistics…
but anyway, i m sorry if i sounded offensive</p>

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<p>I get what you mean. I just realized the implications to be honest. I suppose it’s just their way of reporting data, but it is a little unfair if you compare to matricultions in the schools.</p>

<p>cheers
IslanderG</p>

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<p>just wondering , why are the figures not updated?</p>

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<p>this is quite an old thread but for the record, while rj does probably produce some excellent all rounded students, i am sure andover, exeter and top uk boarding schools produce a larger majority of all rounded students. in singapore, i have never seen a student who gets straight As, plays sport at a national level, plays music to a high level, does drama and lots of other extra curriculars and still is interesting and has a social life.</p>

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<p>so…many cornell admits wow</p>

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<p>Interesting, a good half of my cousins (about…12 people?) graduated from this school over a period of 20 years? They all went to the University of Singapore (at least I think that’s what it’s called).</p>

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<p>University of Singapore is the old name for National University of Singapore. It’s pretty highly ranked in the world.</p>

<p>rachelcee, I agree that Singaporean students are usually seen as “muggers” or “slackers”, but your standards are ridiculous.</p>

<p>Straight As + High Music Grade + Drama + Other activities?</p>

<p>Some people might say that those can be conflicting interests in a sense. Not many people are both interested and arts AND sports to such deep levels at the same time. But if you mean one of them then I know plenty who excel academically, have an EC they pursue at high levels, participates in school acitivities and yet has a social life.</p>

<p>And then again there are those who just do one thing. But that’s pretty common the world over.</p>