<p>Michigan, being a state school, is not the right example.</p>
<p>Already, they had the headache of Supreme Court decision on affirmative action!</p>
<p>Large intake from one school(of talented kids) simply goes to fill the "quota" of that country!</p>
<p>I gave you two examples, Michigan and Cornell. And you can draw the same conclusion for CMU(27), Duke(17), Penn(16), Brown(15), Stanford(12), Chicago(29), etc.</p>
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Large intake from one school(of talented kids) simply goes to fill the "quota" of that country!
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How do you know they are not taking any students from other Singapore HS? Besides in 2005, Cornell and Michigan took in 12(4.5%) and 24(10%) students from RJC. Are you saying that Singapore's quota for Cornell and Michigan are 4.5% and 10% respectively? What was India's quota then?</p>
<p>But that's no point of debating further with you. Where is your data to support your 'theory'?</p>
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Michigan, being a state school, is not the right example.
Already, they had the headache of Supreme Court decision on affirmative action!
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Oh please get your fact straight. The Supreme Court cases happened five years ago in 2003. Michigan lost one decision (point system) and won one (race can be considered in admission).</p>
<p>And what does it have to do with 'country quota'?</p>
<p>I think we should not argue with plainb anymore. It's just a waste of time. This argument doesn't help other students to choose a better college or provided some useful infos for 2013 intl students. No matter the quota system exists or not, the rules of the game won't change in a short period of time. So what we discussed didn't worth the time to write. I'll say to be a great person is more important than entering an elite university. And complainment certainly doesn't help one to grow up. Our future won't be all determined by the colleges we went into in future. If plainb still wants to have a debate with me, welcome to contact me through facebook. I will not respond further in this post.</p>
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I think we should not argue with plainb anymore. It's just a waste of time.
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<p>agreed, I won't even bother for someone who doesn't have enough time to at least check wikipedia, esp with ignorant statement as below:</p>
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Indonesia is one religion and India is a melting pot of all the religions of the world. You are talking about dialects. I am talking about more than 15 written and spoken languages-with rich literature,1000 year history etc
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<p>since we're talking about diversity here, let me just educate you on something:
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indonesia's religion:</p>
<p>Muslim 88%,
Protestant 5%,
Roman Catholic 3%,
Hindu 2%,
Buddhist 1%,
other 1% (1998)
source:
Indonesia</a> - Religion Index</p>
<p>The number of languages listed for India is 428. Of those, 415 are living languages and 13 are extinct.
source: Ethnologue</a> report for India
The number of languages listed for Indonesia is 742. Of those, 737 are living languages, 2 are second language without mother-tongue speakers, and 3 are extinct.
Source: Ethnologue</a> report for Indonesia
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<p>you learned something new everyday...</p>
<p>Go pearlygate! :D</p>
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<p>no offence but that school's a joke compared to RJC
Gateway</a> to the Ivy League - WSJ.com</p>
<p>RJC did what they're now literally driving themselves insane to do 4 years ago, w/o slogging their guts out, putting in 15hr days or forsaking every bit of extra-curricular and social life for that extra grade or 2</p>
<p>I doubt that...
I think your words sound a little unreasonable</p>
<p>let this useless thread die.</p>
<p>^ thx for reviving it</p>
<p>i doubt that which you said too Sunny</p>
<p>I have been away for some time!</p>
<p>pearlygate </p>
<p>There’s a famous saying of Prof Aaron Levenstein:</p>
<pre><code> “Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
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<p>My brief 2 points:</p>
<p>1)“The official national language, Indonesian, is universally taught in schools, and is spoken by nearly every Indonesian. It is the language of business, politics, national media, education, and academia.”-wikipedia
On the other hand, Indian constitution officially recognizes 15 languages and they are languages of administration, education, academia, politics, media etc. Not one language is spoken by every Indian</p>
<p>2) Indonesia is the biggest majority Muslim country and has the largest Muslim population in the world( 180 million). You know who has the second largest Muslim numbers?- India. Slightly lower 150 million. And they are flourishing in a secular country.</p>
<p>So I refuse to bracket India with Indonesia.</p>
<p>lOngbOWmeN </p>
<p>When I said I don’t get it, I meant the argument being made and not RJC. Singapore is an international hub and people of all nationalities live and work there. And RJC does conduct admissions tests for internationals.</p>
<p>Thank God, Singapore Govt. is not as parochial as some of the comments on this board are!</p>
<p>Problem with the structure of the last sentence:</p>
<p>I want to mean Singapore Govt. is not parochial at all!</p>
<p>An interesting read in these times of waiting:</p>
<p>By the nineteen-sixties, Harvards admissions system had evolved into a series of complex algorithms. The school began by lumping all applicants into one of twenty-two dockets, according to their geographical origin. (There was one docket for Exeter and Andover, another for the eight Rocky Mountain states.) Information from interviews, references, and student essays was then used to grade each applicant on a scale of 1 to 6, along four dimensions: personal, academic, extracurricular, and athletic. Competition, critically, was within each docket, not between dockets, so there was no way for, say, the graduates of Bronx Science and Stuyvesant to shut out the graduates of Andover and Exeter.
-Getting In by Malcolm Gladwell</p>
<p>Oh! Thanks. All those who wanted proof might have got it. </p>
<p>And I missed this one:</p>
<p>[ quote=aktiv8d]agree with NBZ. i think adcoms are definitely informed enough to realize that Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal etc are different countries with distinct languages, religious breakdowns, cultures etc [ /quote].</p>
<p>Aktiv8d, are u really from Bangladesh? If so, that is ignorance! You say Bangladesh and Pakistan have distinct languages, religious breakdowns( whatever that means!) and cultures. You should know that Urdu, spoken in Pakistan, and Bangla, spoken in Bangladesh, are Indian languages as well! </p>
<p>I know this goes against my argument that Indian Subcontinent is full of diversity.</p>
<p>The beauty is countries in the subcontinent are similar but India itself is crazily diverse! My wish is Adcoms get to notice it!</p>