<p>To preciouspurple - promote a narrow range of colleges? Yes, definitely. It’s true. </p>
<p>Collegeconfidential overall promotes the top schools only, I mean, look at the What Are My Chances forum. A 2000 SAT is mediocre over there. </p>
<p>And this forum is all about US colleges anyway - student room UK is for UK universities. Not many American students go overseas for college, so it’s not surprising that the entirety of the forum lacks information on non-US colleges.</p>
<p>About this thread and its focus on top colleges - I can’t justify going overseas to a non-top university and shelling out big bucks, when a bargain can be found at NUS. Preciouspurple, I don’t know your family situation (what’s your idea of affordable??), but I’m only applying to four top colleges because, well, I wouldn’t pay 60k a year for Purdue when I can pay like 10k (maximum, then minus scholarships) for NUS.</p>
<p>"National University officials would like to found the college sometime in 2013, though the presidents of the Claremont Colleges see that date as optimistic. "… 2013??</p>
<p>from that article, it sounds like this new LAC in singapore is going to be a rather respectable one… which must be good news i guess (personally i don’t see the point of getting curtin or nsw to set up shop here)</p>
<p>that’s perhaps because you approach tertiary education from a rather myopic and elitist view, seeing it only as a resource to be consumed by the very best and brightest of society?</p>
<p>That’s deliberately antagonistic. Good quality of education =/= Best and brightest students. I don’t see what’s wrong with David stating that the quality of education at NSW or Curtin is not as good as that at the Claremont colleges.</p>
<p>And everyone, let’s congratulate screw for getting his screwy letter published in Sunday Times today. Whoopee…</p>
<p>hi fiona, are there any non-math/sci competitions i can join in Singapore. My school does not have much opportunities for me but im trying to search for them on my own… Any competitions u know of?</p>
<p>^ Lots of essay writing competitions around (Stanford Book Prize, MAS-ESS, etc…), GIC NEFMQ is a good one if you are interested in economics and finance.</p>
<p>Hmm I can’t think of any others, 1234d thisbetterworks, atomcrusader, darklord and I are all J2. Kashiva is J3, oceanwave is J4, Edwinsque I dunno, but applying this year. I don’t know about preciouspurple.</p>
<p>Well, both MIT and UChicago are good in Econ. But Ppl associate UChicago with Economics and MIT with Engineering. So, UChicago economics program is more well known in USA.</p>
<p>Btw, undergraduate econ program isn’t that quantitative. You only have to take calc 1 and 2…well, at least that’s the requirement in my school. However, if you wanna go to a grad school, then it will get more quantitative…hence you will have to take extra math classes in ur undergrad colleges if you know that you wanna go to a grad school in econ.</p>
(personally i don’t see the point of getting curtin or nsw to set up shop here)</p>