<p>dude! i said “there are less than 10% internationals”- so peace out… i didn’t bother getting exact stats, so yeah!! and i was basically doing a US versus NUS discussion to reply to what limnieng said. and i don’t know much about BU. why? cuz i didn’t apply there and i’m not going there. that’s the ONLY reason why i used UCLA instead. oh- and i’d say, in reality, even a purdue degree’s better than an NUS one. i really thought NUS was awesome at one point of time and that was precisely why i went to singapore after the 10th grade- for NUS- but after spending days on campus (crashing friends’ lectures and staying with them), NUS seemed far less impressive compared to how high the ranking shows it.</p>
<p>arrogant? i won’t say that i’m not proud of going to UCLA. i definitely am! but showing off or being arrogant wasn’t the intention here. it was just a comparison of a how NUS unfairly trumps US universities in the rankings due to certain misleading factors taken into counting. if i sounded arrogant, i apologize.</p>
<p>limnieng- i agree american schools do play around with the rankings. i’ve heard of a VERY prestigious school using admitted students’ stats as the enrolling class’ stats. so that’s definitely true- but the NUS case is extreme, i’d say. and no, NUS is NOT lying. it’s just that the factors taken by THES favor NUS. i agree UCLA (or for the sake of our dear friend, ysbera, ANY OTHER COLLEGE WITH A DECENT INTERNATIONAL NAME) has very few internationals- but then again, i really do think that because of the different backgrounds, it contributes more towards the “out of the classroom learning” part that colleges want to achieve by having people from all over. all i’m saying is… that NUS is overrated by the rankings. i did NOT intend to be defend UCLA (bah! UCLA wasn’t even in question when the OP started the thread), i just wanted to compare two apparently equally ranked colleges. peace out, guys! :)</p>
<p>triti, i’d say BU! there’re different opinions floating around. read up, do some research and form your own informed opinion! 
good luck! :)</p>