<p>Thank you ,dear .You made me a compliment compliment</p>
<p>Okay,i have been living Singapore for 6 years and i know how it feels leavin there…
the pros is that Singapore is probably the safest country in the world…you can walk around the street at night without fear and they have the best airport and airline too…</p>
<p>but the bad things are they pretty much being restricted on doing anything…and the people are like a robots…They will rate you based on your academic results and it will determine on what your gonna do for your whole life!!
Imagine you live in a country where your good at SPORT but you suck at your ACADEMIC
so you cant go to sport sch becus of your Academic performance.
Well,the latest news is that i heard Singaporeans have to pay 50 bucks (correct me if i am wrong) just to enter their casino while foreigners don`t have to…</p>
<p>oh well … (:</p>
<p>Hey mv3, I didn’t go to an international school, just a JC. In other words I took A levels (and the old syllabus too) and not IB.</p>
<p>Guys,have a question regarding NTU…
If I don’t ask for any financial aid,do I have a good chance of getting through,considering I have average scores like a SAT score of 2100(I’m an Indian applicant)</p>
<p>^ I think you certainly do. I applied for aid and got rejected straight-out because apparently the average SAT score and O/A “As” bands I met on various websites was for students not requiring financial aid :(</p>
<p>2100 is clearly not an average SAT score.At least not for US students.2100 means top 5 %
And ,Yes ,I have been to Singapore .I remember that the laptops and other stuff was really cheap</p>
<p>^ Almost 2mil students take the SAT every year. Let’s do some maths now:</p>
<p>5% of 2,000,000 = 100,000 </p>
<p>So he’s in the top 100,000 SAT applicants from around the world. Let’s remember that International students (esp. Singaporean ) usually have higher average SAT scores than their American counterparts. And since NTU in Singapore is considered even more prestigious than NUS, admission with a 2100 is by no means guaranteed - even without aid.</p>
<p>theGame,what was the SAT score you sent to Nanyang?</p>
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<p>I think 2100 might actually be close to the average for Singaporean students who do take the SAT, actually. Most people I know got >2000 first time out, and around 2200 the second time if they took it again. I only know one person who didn’t clear the 2100 hurdle after two tries. But this is based on impressions/anecdotal evidence. (Hmm I know more people with >2250 than with <2000.)</p>
<p>Stunning - you’ve been to Singapore, and still manage to make ridiculous statements like the one you made a few posts back.</p>
<p>Eh, only 2020
lol</p>
<p>I’ll probably retake and try to improve…but,i hope nanyang gives a lot of weight towards SAT?Do they?i have TOEFL too:)</p>
<p>They do…TOEFL is easy and the adcoms know it :)</p>
<p>116 TOEFL out of 120 is easy to achieve,with a bit of luck 120 is not that impossible.The competition in my country is not that big (easetern Europe) ,2100 on the SAT plus 110+ on TOEFL and 4.0 gpa guarantees me (almost certainly) a spot in Cornell or upenn ,for example (without FA) .If I hope for FA i need at least 2200 on the SAT .I scored 1850 on my first time without studying much and i hope for a 2100 in my second try in June.
UK colleges are also good option because the tuition tax is only about 8000 $ for the most prestigious ones (Oxbridge)</p>
<p>^ As ice-cool and, shall I say, over-confident as CR7. No wonder he’s your favorite player ;)</p>
<p>^ and i might add that CR7 is incredibly arrogant as well haha</p>
<p>What’s sad is that given he’s from either Bulgaria or Romania, he’s probably right. Whereas if you’re Singaporean, nothing is a guarantee for any of the top-tier schools, even without aid. Throw FA in and you’re in crapshoot zone.</p>
<p>There’s one difference - CR7 has “heard a lot of good things about Singapore” (read the New Paper anybody - or am I the only sad person who reads TNP?), while this guy can’t even seem to come up with one.</p>
<p>^
But applying FA for internationally need-blind schools would not hurt your chances, would it?</p>
<p>^ Well, no. But your chances are really low to begin with.</p>
<p>would it be safe to say $250,000 US is enough to cover college costs including two flights per year and living costs?</p>
<p>or is it closer to $500,00US?</p>
<p>Petrina: depends on where you go. I can’t bring my college costs below S$300,000 and the flights are the least of it, but that’s NYU for you.</p>
<p>Now if you’re going to, say, UW-Madison then S$250,000 might well be doable.</p>
<p>S$500,000 is if you REALLY spend. Not likely.</p>