Singapore Students who sit for A Levels

<p>seeker and GoBlue: My bad, you're right, the Columbia guy was talking about his Singapore scholarship money. If you don't meet the requirements, they take it away just like that. </p>

<p>But I'm still pretty sure that if you screw up your A levels, your place in the top ivies can get revoked. Or maybe those are just the horror stories people pass down to keep Singapore students in check. Heh. </p>

<p>But thanks alot you two! I can now partay without having potential A level meltdown thoughts at the back of my head. Woo!</p>

<p>glad to be of service :P who cares about the As!</p>

<p>i think they dont really care about the A's. just look at ur teachers recs and school grades. after u get ur a level results u dont even need to send it in (but if ur results r good, of course u'll want to do so)</p>

<p>rtkysg:</p>

<p>I'm a guy from Burma who did A levels in singapore.</p>

<p>I went to NUS for about a month this year, quit, and came here to the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Now I'm applying to the States for Fall 2005 entry.</p>

<p>I think NUS is brilliant and its sorta like a balance between the US and british systems. You get a semi-rigid course outline depending on your chosen major (like in the UK) and you get a chance to indulge yourself in tons of elective modules as well (like in the US), I think you can take a maximum of 4 or five electives a year, thats like 25% of the work load.</p>

<p>As for the teaching, I attended 1st year Engineering for about only one month, so I don't know if I can make a good judgement, but I think the maths and science courses aren't really good (well, at least the introductory ones, there's like 200 people in a lecture theater and some guy speaking to them in singlish goes on and on boring everyone to sleep). But the electives I took from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences were really good, with small class sizes and actual interaction between the professors and the students.</p>

<p>The facilities at NUS are top notch and the campus is huge and beautiful. briliant libraries, sports facilities and of course, like all things in singapore, food. There's relatively quite a lot of diversity, tons of people from all over SE Asia and also from all over Asia, some from Europe and America, but not that much, mostly exchange students.</p>

<p>I think only the top tier universities in the US are better than NUS, plus its a lot cheaper and much easier to get into.</p>

<p>Its just that people from Asia think much more highly of anything from the West.</p>

<p>I know you haven’t been to this post in a long time. But i was just wondering, what if my teacher sent in my actual prelim grades. Given that prelims is usually much lower than what students get in the actual A levels and i did pretty bad… do you think they would hold it against me? Even though my SAT 1, SAT 2, O level grades are still not bad? Hope you could help.</p>

<p>Hey I love this thread haha, totally suits me lol. I’m just hoping that these 6 years old statements still hold water…</p>

<p>As an admissions reader for Singapore: </p>

<p>I cannot think of a JC that doesn’t send the prelim marks. So, your situation is no different than most. Nearly every JC has predicted grades they can (and should) send that are not only more reflective of ability than often intentionally deflated prelims, but will paint you in a better light. A savvy and experienced admissions officer will understand that “pretty bad” prelims do not necessarily indicate a “pretty bad” student.</p>

<p>The tricky thing is that not every student actually has their predicted grades sent. (At Tufts, if you don’t have predicteds, we call the school and ask for them). Just make sure the predicteds got sent, and you’ll be fine.</p>

<p>hey, just wanna dig up this thread a bit. It’s getting dusty now, but i think it’s still quite relevant. My school counselor said that she hasn’t submitted my final transcript yet because she will use my A-lvl result for it. That means i won’t get a thorough evaluation by colleges until then? The “School Forms” status of my common app account shows that she has only submitted the school report.
I am very worried right now. What should i do to rectify this problem?</p>