<p>what are some good safety schools where i can:</p>
<p>a. get a good education </p>
<p>b. have a decent shot at getting into</p>
<p>ummm actually, outside of say the top 20 schools in the us (probably actually higher), i doubt that the education at nus pales in comparison to american universities. honestly.</p>
<p>Northwestern has good engineering programs as well as University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Caltech too.</p>
<p>goingforcolumbia, if you're in NUSHS, why not try for some olympiads? you can try in your junior year if i'm not wrong. and believe me stuff like chemistry olympiad is very muggable - i've a friend who started from just basic O level chem at the start of JC1 and mugged all the way for eight months to a SChO gold, and then IChO silver. its unfortunate that you're an Indian national and can't represent Singapore in IChO, though.</p>
<p>Here's what you need to do:</p>
<ol>
<li>Don't apply to schools for the names.</li>
<li>Don't determine your major just based on the school you attend. Olin, Mudd, Stanford, and MIT want students who are actually passionate about what they do and not international prestige-whores.</li>
<li>Learn how to spell the names of schools you are applying to. (Stanford).</li>
<li>Post here after you actually take the SAT. If you expect to get into these top math/science schools you should realize that no score is 100% "guaranteed" statistically. So we don't want to be given ridiculous arbitrary ranges of scores that you just pulled from no where.</li>
<li>Realize you probably have a very small chance at schools like MIT and Stanford. Apply to less selective schools instead of just the prestigious ones.</li>
</ol>
<p>Also, why does it seem like all of the threads like this are from internationals?</p>
<p>Seriously, 90% of the ridiculous "what are my chances?" threads on here are from international students.</p>