<p>Don’t worry about the essay-writing - I go to a US high school and apparently we have our writing style completely thrown out in freshman year too, so everybody will be in the same boat. At any rate I haven’t experienced too much variation in US HS/SG JC writing styles (used to go to school in SG, have friends currently in JC) so JC people won’t stand out in a bad way.</p>
<p>Oh and the US brains are wiped from senioritis too (uni apps were done in first semester of 12th grade, after which nobody pays attention in class anymore). So don’t worry and have fun in one of the few free summers of one’s life :D</p>
<p>just curious, but is it that easy or is the work in Singapore just much more difficult? went around the forum and saw so many students with 4.0 GPA’s…even friends i know at top JC’s arent scoring close to that, im referring to HC and the lot…</p>
<p>Asking a question on behalf of a friend. He’s in his 2nd year of NS and just got accepted to NUS Law. Trouble is, he’s applying to some US colleges this year, meaning he’ll only know his US acceptances next April. His first priority is to go to the States, and NUS is his “back up”, so to speak.</p>
<p>He doesn’t want to reject NUS Law yet in case he doesn’t get any of his US choices. Can he accept the NUS offer for now, and withdraw from his place if he gets accepted to the US next April? I know it’s not the fairest thing to do, but I’m not sure what other options he has and I’m wondering if NUS makes contingencies for this sort of thing.</p>
<p>NTU policy is that you should just say yes first, even if you intend to go somewhere else. Seriously. Upon receiving my acceptance letter from NTU, I called the admissions officer cuz I didn’t wanna say “Yes” to NTU if I was gonna withdraw later. So Mr Tee said I should just send in my “Yes to NTU” first and then inform them if I decide to go somewhere else.</p>
<p>hmm, this may sound really stupid to your, but what is the difference between a LAC and a normal university? other than the fact that LAC’s seem to focus more on general education to prep you for grad sch whereas universities seem to focus more on one topic?</p>
<p>^ Professors at LACs are focused primarily on teaching while professors at research universities divide their time between research, mentoring graduate students and teaching classes. Pros and cons to each, really.</p>
<p>Singaporean scholars usually go to large research U’s not LACs XD (ok, ok, I’m gonna be flooded with counterexamples. whatever…)</p>
<p>Large research Us usually have more course offerings, especially at higher level (e.g a undergrad at MIT can take grad courses at e same time) They typically offer more majors, some of which are rarer at LACs, for example, engineering powerhouses are mostly large research U’s</p>
<p>^Then what are they primarily interested in? Research?
Of course one can’t say that ALL professors in the “better” LACs devote the bulk of their attentions to teaching but I would think that the majority of them do. </p>
<p>And I assume that by “better” you mean top 20 by USNWR or something.</p>
<p>LACs = smaller class sizes = more professor-student interaction = yay
LACs = smaller student body = tightly knit friendships OR claustrophobia
LACs = more personal touch, and that’s not just the teaching. Student services, career centres, almost everything.</p>