<p>Richmond the one with dual campus? uk and us?</p>
<p>Oh well notre dame is without doubt a good school? but personally I’m not a fan of religious affiliated school(personal bias)</p>
<p>I think in the midwestern area there are better B ssh</p>
<p>anyone here from polytechnics? i’m gonna graduate nxt year and intending to further studies in either the US/canada, anyone went through the same pathway?</p>
<p>Dinosoar: My schoolmate is now in Richmond. He’s PRC though</p>
<p>Oo kay thanks. </p>
<p>Does anyone know of people in undergrad biz schools on a scholarship?</p>
<p>Agh. My parents don’t want me to apply for fin-aid cuz it kills your chances as an international (I’m not an outstanding applicant by any means, so any strategic advantage is necessary, no matter how small), but they keep telling me that no one’s gonna pay for me to go overseas unless I get a scholarship D: And there are very few organizations in my intended line of work which offer scholarships - only GIC actually (which is v competitive). Need a safety/realistic path so if anyone knows of anyone who managed to get an undergrad biz scholarship (either from the school itself or a private company) pleaaaaase post about it!</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>(If it helps, schools I’m targeting include CMU Tepper, UC Berkeley, Georgetown McDonough, UVA McIntire, NYU Stern, and UMich Ross + USC Marshall as safeties/matches. Intended major finance and second major economics if available, or some kind of programming cert).</p>
<p>It is going to be really hard to get any FA at all of those schools, so you might need a scholarship. I know one girl who is in Wharton on PSC OMS, but that is probably as hard to get as the GIC scholarship anyway.</p>
<p>Hey guys my first post here. </p>
<p>I know not a lot of people apply for the Spring intake but is there anyone out there who has or anyone who can tell me the pros and cons of starting in Spring instead of fall. I ORD on 3 Jan 12… reason why i want to start in spring. Have already applied to a few schools.</p>
<p>One more thing… anyone from Purdue Here?
What grades did you get and how long did the university take to get back to you.</p>
<p>Did we just get our own Singapore thread in the international section, or am I late in noticing this? :D</p>
<p>@ frankchn, thanks for answering. Do you know much about the standard or availability of international scholarships awarded by Richmond and USC? eg. is the profile of someone getting such a scholarship comparable to say, someone who gets into Cornell/Duke with no FA? Also, do you know if we have to fill in forms verifying our ability to pay with bank statements etc at the time of application or after we get admitted into schools?
I’m also applying to Boston U, Vassar, Boston College, Wellesley, Emory, Tufts and others around this tier, do you know of any internationals who managed to get scholarships to similar schools (either from the schools themselves or from other organizations)?
Thanks!!</p>
<p>@ shutterbug91, I thought Spring intake tends to be far lower than regular decision intake, which might hurt your chances?</p>
<p>@dinosoar
you’re late :P</p>
<p>@shutterbug91
it really depends on the course. purdue is generally known for its engineering. but i have heard that it’s generally not hard to get into. apparently people get in with just their o’s.</p>
<p>has anyone seen this website? <a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/[/url]”>http://nces.ed.gov/</a> its pretty useful. just discovered it today :D</p>
<p>@dinosaur you’ll probably get more accurate answers by emailing the admission officers at these schools with your questions about career prospects and alumni from Singapore. They’ll probably have an alumni list and statistics about employment. If they don’t, then you should reconsider these schools!</p>
<p>There are very few undergrad business scholarships from the US- if there are, they are for MBAs. Have you considered need-blind schools? </p>
<p>a) Dartmouth
b) Harvard
c) Yale
d) Princeton
e) MIT
f) Amherst
g) Williams</p>
<p>Most of them are pretty competitive though. Have you checked out Fastweb to search for scholarships? Otherwise, as a ex-student who’s managed the scholarship database for my school as a student assistant, I strongly recommend that you check out the financial aid pages of the colleges you listed for “aid for international students”. Otherwise, I know a few bond-free general ones, just PM me if you’ll like to know about them.</p>
<p>@dinosaur Oh, and I have a friend who graduated from Wellesley - If you like, I can try asking if she won any scholarship…</p>
<p>Btw, here’s an excellent website about university admissions ran (mainly) by NUSHS students.</p>
<p>[NUSHSCollegeTalk</a> - Home](<a href=“http://nushscollegetalk.posterous.com/]NUSHSCollegeTalk”>http://nushscollegetalk.posterous.com/)</p>
<p>They’re very knowledgeable and friendly, and are very willing to answer questions on their tagboard.</p>
<p>Hey guys this is gonna sound really dumb but who is supposed to be the guidance counselor? I’m doing my us applications now and i have no clue? is it supposed to be just some teacher? Pls help me! Thanks so much!</p>
<p>If you don’t have a guidance counselor, then you can ask the teacher-in-charge of your class. Typically there should be someone in your school that handles school reports and so on, so you might want to check with your teachers who has been handling those all along. You can’t be the first student from your JC to apply to US colleges, so don’t worry :)</p>
<p>ok thanks so much yalealumna!</p>
<p>@arvedui thanks for the link!</p>
<p>Can we apply for fin-aid at some schools but not others, through Common App? Like tick ‘intend to apply for FA’ in some schools’ forms but do not tick that box in other schools’ forms?</p>
<p>yalealumna - PM-ed you!</p>
<p>Hey, for schools like university of michigan, i suppose our a levels and o levels are to be sent to the schools as part of the admission process right?</p>
<p>When i send these documents in, how do i go about it, do i,</p>
<p>1) need it to be certified true by the schools? </p>
<p>2) photocopy a piece of my a level cert and submit to them by post?</p>
<p>3) Or can i just scan them into my computer can mail it to them? If so, where do i write in my common app ID?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for any advice.</p>
<p>Certified isn’t through the school? Every school has different stand so its good to email the school in question about it</p>
<p>Ah, this thread got so boring nowadays. I miss the time where there were long discussions about more qualitiative parts of the American Education. Now everything so practical and nitty-gritty. </p>
<p>@rotipratagirl</p>
<p>Sorry didn’t really for a long while. The best post for this is probably post #627 on the same thread, by D.T</p>
<h2>Actually, I’ll copy and paste it here.</h2>
<p>An initial list of LACs to look at would be:</p>
<p>Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore
Wesleyan
Pomona
Carleton
Grinnell
Dartmouth - It’s an ivy but it’s like an LAC
Vassar
Claremont McKenna
Harvey Mudd (You like engineering and physics?)
Reed</p>
<p>Here’s my few cents worth of the viability of the LAC: </p>
<p>There is a reason why the Education Ministry is looking into liberal arts education. Unbeknownst to many Singaporeans, the presidents of the Claremont Colleges (5 liberal arts colleges, which includes Pomona) recently visited Singapore and talked to several senior officials in the Education Ministry on assisting Singapore in setting up a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>About LACs:
LACs offer a bachelor of Arts/Science degrees. All they do not offer are Masters/Doctorates.</p>
<p>‘Liberal Arts’ do not mean the following:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>We study art, in a haphazard and pseudo-creative fashion, with dreams of future celebrity status in New York.</p></li>
<li><p>We study a bit of everything but actually don’t know anything. “Too general lah”, “not solid”, “not specific/not useful”.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Liberal arts colleges have distribution requirements (and so do National Universities). In my school, Pomona College, we have to take 1 class in 5 areas - for example, a chemistry/geology class to satisfy a science requirement, a calculus/logic class to satisfy the math requirement, a theatre/music class to satisfy fine arts, and econ/politics to satisfy a social science requirement, and so on. Everyone has freedom to choose whatever classes they please - they are by no means limited by the categories. One of my friends has taken a computer science class, a politics class, a chemistry class, a math class, and an english class, and since we don’t have to declare a major until after our second year, he still has time to register for a macroecon class or a french class.</p>
<p>Having said that, we do specialize in the end. LACs allow students to double major, and many in my school do. Many of the seniors have done stuff like double majoring in physics and english, or math and history, or econ and french. So we go as in depth as ANY place in terms of a bachelors degree. Think of a major as being equivalent to a degree. It’s equally rigorous. To call us a place of general or shallow learning, its students mere dilettantes, and its institution a joke is to reflect misinformation.</p>
<p>Some reactions include this:</p>
<p>“Huh? Why so weird one, want to study this, study that, aiya just do business or engineering, safer! Can find job. What for do history, or what environmental thing, or english. All useless!”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I was already well acquainted with this sentiment in my JC years, when someone asked me if I was taking any S-Papers. I replied that I was taking one, and it was English. Her reaction: “Huh, why so weird one?” (Note: Regardless of who you are, such a lack of such social graces is not going to get you far.)</p>
<p>A few things come to my mind:</p>
<p>There are a lot of business majors. If you want to work for the major corporations, just being a business major is hardly going to give you any leg up. You’ll need to prove that you have good internships under your belt e.g. DeutschBank, Credit Suisse, GIC etc, as well as excel in your studies, and become active in your school - president of a business society etc, plus recs from your professors, glowing ones at that too.</p>
<p>At a investment banking division of a major bank I was very lucky to work at ( no disclosure), I observed the following “demographic”</p>
<ol>
<li>4 University of Melbourne grads</li>
<li>2 University of NSW grads</li>
<li>1 U Sydney grad</li>
<li>1 Harvard grad</li>
<li>1 U Penn grad</li>
<li>1 Columbia University (Fu School) grad</li>
<li>1 NTU grad</li>
</ol>
<p>In the entire investment banking division, there was one rep from a local U. Please don’t construe this as a statement against local Unis. I am rather trying to point out the reality of getting into an investment banking or high profile firm with a business degree. Same goes for even grads from schools like NUS Law/Medicine. The VP of that division basically said as a matter of fact that many local U grads simply did not have the exposure required to be able to adapt to the rigors and demands of investment banking. Note, I was not in the information technology dept - maybe the recruitment stats are different over there.</p>
<p>If you are from a local U, and you’re ****ed, that’s what he said. If you’re driven and do other things beside getting As, good for you! You’ll go far. Sadly, that is hardly the mindset of many of our peers. You may have seen my remarks in the NUS thread on what I said about the FASS. They need to improve - the faculty, the student body, if they want to provide an education that is going to prepare them for success in the workplace.</p>
<p>The good LACs have pretty good recruitment. Many go into consulting/i-banking, while others into law/government firms. Many go into grad school, but others find themselves doing work in NGOs or education work.</p>
<p>Check out the job placement stats of graduates from LACs. What’s their average salary? What kind of internships are students getting? How’s their career development office? All these are excellent sources of information.</p>
<p>As for questions on cost, recently Amherst college announced that their school is becoming need blind to international students. We’re pushing for Pomona College to do the same. Other places like Oberlin College are also looking for talented Singaporeans, and will give very generous financial aid.</p>
<p>I wanted an LAC because I wanted a place where I got to interact with my professors on a daily basis. I wanted to be challenged by talented peers. I wanted competition within myself to succeed, and not play the zero sum game I played in the A levels and the game that I see too often in local Unis. I wanted a broad, yet deep education, that would prepare me to work in almost any industry in an increasingly globalized world. Of course, I wanted a place where I could have fun too. Frisbee in the lawn? Reading law by the pool? Attending a talk by Bono? Listening to John Mayer live? Choose a good LAC, and you will not lose out in education. Chances are MORE than likely that if you challenge yourself and grow, you’ll not only land up with plenty of grad school and job offers, but also with close friends (both students and professors) - 4 years you will never, ever forget.</p>
<p>Not relevant to Singapore? Singapore’s changing. Government scholars (e.g. A Star) in my batch went to Carleton College and Bryn Mawr because even the ministry knows the undergrad focus in the top LACs give excellent training in the sciences - theory, research and projects.</p>
<hr>
<p>This post was made in 2008, so things have changed. For the better I think–with Singapore creating a LAC for itself, I think LACs in America will get very good exposure here.</p>
<p>Hi guys, does anyone know if land-grant colleges in Cornell are harder to get into for Singaporeans as compared to privately endowed ones?</p>
<p>Public - eg. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, which houses their undergrad business course (AEM), Industrial Labour and Relations, Human Ecology
Private - eg. Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Hotel</p>