<p>fiona,</p>
<p>First of all, I don’t think we are disagreeing about that much. I don’t think the number is 100, but something slightly less (like 60 to 70 or so) and you think 100 or more is the more likely number. </p>
<p>Looking at your link above, at first I thought that this was the number of people applying from this one school, but after reading through the materials, I realized that this is a service/class the school is offering for all Singapore students. So, in other words this is a “clearing house” for applications to US schools–and thus represents multiple students in Singapore who go to multiple schools.</p>
<p>First of all, I notice these numbers include both waitlisted and deferred admit students, not just regular admits only (see the footnotes at the bottom). </p>
<p>If you are trying to say that the numbers come just from students attending the junior college in Singapore, not from other high schools and colleges, then I doubt the accuracy of the numbers–sorry. </p>
<p>Look at what this place is saying–average admit ratio to Cornell (59% of applicants–94 students–from the one school, despite the fact that Cornell tends to take only the top 5% to 7% from any school anywhere); average admit ratio to Michigan (98% from one school, 111 out of 113 applications???–sorry, but I don’t believe this one for even one second). Unless the yield for Singapore to the US is about 15% or less, these numbers make no sense at all. </p>
<p>However, if this represents the students receiving help and applying through this “clearing house” from various schools all over Singapore, then yes, I would believe it. It says that about 76 students (once you remove waitlisted students) were admitted to Cornell in 2005 from (all of) Singapore. And this 76 includes those that got deferred admission. That seems like a reasonable number.</p>
<p>And no, my numbers were for admits, not for enrolled students–Cornell only admits 500 international and US possession students–the average enrolls would only be about 60% of this number to get to the 17% of enrollees total.</p>