<p>At the risk of starting a world war, I ask the following:</p>
<p>-Which countries have the most applicants by absolute numbers?
-Which countries have the most applicants as a percentage of its population?
-Which countries have the highest acceptance rates to US colleges?</p>
<p>I've always wanted to know.</p>
<p>Singapore would be a good candidate for the second and third one? Haha.. I'm not Singaporean btw.</p>
<p>1) India, China and Canada have got to be up there</p>
<p>serious?! u always post in the singaporean thread. you're ASEAN?</p>
<p>Haha.. I'm a Singapore STUDENT for the past 4 years.. Heheheh. Well, come to think of it, I start to see myself more as a Singaporean rather than my original citizenship. :D</p>
<p>Anw, the admission stats would be different if you consider TOP US unis vs ALL US unis.. For example Singaporeans, I don't think that many of them are interested to go for some secluded unis in the US, but many Indonesians/Malaysians/Chinese would.. So this factor will affect the numbers too. I am assuming all 3 questions pertains to TOP US unis.</p>
<p>screwitlah, why must do this?? screw it lah.</p>
<p>hahahaha. i kid, i kid.</p>
<p>i don't know the answers to all three questions, but i think i agree with tetrisfan on #1. and singapore should be in for #3.. with all these government scholarships and stuff.. singaporean = hot commodity. lol</p>
<p>P.S. your post count is 888! how auspicious!</p>
<p>yeah thats the problem. when i saw my post count it was already too late to edit my latest post to mark that momentous occasion. sigh. but at least i have YOUR post to remember it by!! :D</p>
<p>limitedvocab, are you singaporean?</p>
<p>no :D lisieux and i suffer from the same identity crisis. hahaha</p>
<p>hmm i think vietnam, nepal and romania might also have a sizable number/percentage of applicants.</p>
<p>^High-five! Lol... LV and I kinda have "similar path" in our educational journey too. :D</p>
<p>Identity crisis. I was going to use that in my CA essay, but decided against it. Canada should be #1, given its proximity. Then comes China, India, etc. Singapore, RJC mostly, happily churns out Ivy-tinged students.</p>
<p>1) in terms of absolute numbers, china and india probably have the largest number of applicants to us colleges.</p>
<p>2) korea probably has the largest applicants as a percentage of its population.</p>
<p>3) singapore should have the highest acceptance rate to top ivies/elites.</p>
<p>south korea, china, india</p>
<p>Vietnam, Nepal, Romania? I thought the language barrier would be a problem. I heard from my Vietnamese friend that if you get >2100 SAT in Vietnam it's a near miracle...</p>
<p>by Vietnamese do you mean students studying in Vietnam or Vietnamese citizens studying in other places, like Singapore?</p>
<p>^Not true, many Vietnamese I know are pretty smart, there's this guy in my class who keeps on getting super high marks for his GP essay.. Lol.</p>
<p>@lisieux: "For example Singaporeans, I don't think that many of them are interested to go for some secluded unis in the US, but many Indonesians/Malaysians/Chinese would.." I want to make everything clear here.. Why would you think that only Indonesians, Malaysians, or Chinese would go for secluded (or "isolated") universities??? I know people from those three nations are going to GREAT schools..</p>
<p>according to open doors 2006 int'l students policy, figures released by Institute of Int'l Education, int'l student enrollments at all us colleges/unis in 2005-06 totalled 564,776 with india coming #1 with 76,503, followed by china #2 (excluding taiwan and hong kong) with 62,582 and korea #3 with 58,847 students respectively.</p>
<p>asia still remains the largest sending region accounting for 58% of total int'l student enrollments.</p>
<p>latest 2006-2007 highlights on int'l enrollments, india is #1 (83,833 a 10% increase from previous year), #2 china (67,723 up 8%), #3 korea (62,392 up 6%), #4 japan (35,282 down 9%), #5 (29,094 up 4%), #6 canada (28,280 up less than 1%), #7 mexico (13,826 down 1%), #8 turkey (11,506 down 1%), #9 thailand (8,886 up 1%) and #10 germany (8,656 down 2%).</p>
<p>please refer to Open</a> Doors: Welcome</p>
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@lisieux: "For example Singaporeans, I don't think that many of them are interested to go for some secluded unis in the US, but many Indonesians/Malaysians/Chinese would.." I want to make everything clear here.. Why would you think that only Indonesians, Malaysians, or Chinese would go for secluded (or "isolated") universities??? I know people from those three nations are going to GREAT schools..
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<p>Who ever says that students from those countries do not end up at great schools? I know a lot of them make it there. What I'm saying is there's significantly greater percentage of students from those countries who are contented to go to not-so-good schools compared to Singaporeans. And why is that? Simple, it's because Singapore has a much better education system compared to these countries (NUS, NTU, SMU are arguably better than community colleges/some obscure unis), that does not justify the Singaporean students to pay much more money for an education of lower quality. The rest of the countries, I know for a fact for Indonesians at least, have MANY students who are completely happy to attend community colleges.</p>
<p>Lisieux, Screwitlah, I was referring to Vietnamese students in Vietnam larhz. Wasn't it evident? I'm so ambiguous :/ It's like China, they teach English in the native language.</p>
<p>(Lisieux, with regard to the secluded college fiasco I'd reckon that Singaporeans are such prestige whores that we'd rather stay at NUS than go to colleges that no one's heard of, even if they are renowned in the USA, such as Amherst or Emory.)</p>