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<p>But that’s only for the short term. In the long term successful students contribute much more in terms of donations and prestige.</p>
<p>May well be true, but how do you reflect that on a balance sheet or cashflow statement?</p>
<p>What about the British A Levels? Which school can you take a course for the British A Levels, how different is it from Singapore’s A Levels, and will chances of getting into US/UK/Canadian universties be higher? If it exists in Singapore, what are the Singapore O Level requirements?</p>
<p>J2 guy here, wondering if I should apply next year and indicate 1 gap year, or apply this year and indicate 2 gap years… </p>
<p>Those who applied before, is it easy to defer for 2 years, since it is not common in the US.</p>
<p>I think all of the Ivy+2 allows you to defer for 2 years. Notable exceptions that don’t include Berkeley.</p>
<p>here’s a question:</p>
<p>how do we reflect out secondary school cca achievements in our application if the sec schl report and teacher reccomendations are filled out by JC teachers?</p>
<p>There’s place to write it on the common app itself.</p>
<p>thanks ! </p>
<p>anyone here currently doing IB?</p>
<p>I’m a recent IB grad (May 09).</p>
<p>if we are in the arts stream and the colleges say they require 3 years of science, how do we explain tt?</p>
<p>most US schools have admitted enough Singaporeans - from both arts and science streams - to understand how the education system works here.</p>
<p>The ‘3 years of science’ refers to US-system people without clear arts/science divides. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Hey does anyone have any idea for the common apps and its list of activities, to what extent should we or had you describe our/your activities?</p>
<p>I understand that if we want to go into detail about an activity, we should write an essay about it. Nevertheless, I would like to tap into the experience of people who applied successfully with the common apps to a us uni and find out how detailed do your actually describe the activites on the list?</p>
<p>For a club, I put down the club name in the ‘activity name’ section, then in the description wrote something like 'President; second prize in national competition; top 1% in X Exam (123000 participants)". There’s a short word limit for the description so you have to do this resume-ish writing if necessary. You get 150 words to describe one activity in detail (it was a short essay thing last year) in addition to the essays.</p>
<p>My advice is basically state any leadership positions you may have (since it’s short heh), state prizes from competitions then state more tangible/detailed things like some big events you’ve organised, major committees led etc. (leave out the numbers if they are not particularly impressive, or if you don’t have space)</p>
<p>gah ns is making me sick.</p>
<p>^personal choice, my friend</p>
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<p>One word: downgrade.</p>
<p>so belatedly, it was pretty amusing hearing people at experiences asking about Brown’s PLME – because they couldn’t get into NUS.</p>
<p>actually if you have the money and the time why not the PLME? 
and it’s brown, eh. must be way more fun than NUS</p>
<p>michigan’s application actually states that you need 3 years of science, does anyone know how to solve this problem?</p>