<p>Singaporean in at Williams? This year? Coolios.</p>
<p>Well here's my take.. If I wanted Singaporeans I would have gone to NUS/SMU/NTU, if I wanted Singaporean(esque) food I'd have gone to NUS/SMU/NTU, if I wanted loads and loads of Asians I'd have gone to NUS/SMU/NTU, if I wanted warm weather I'd most definitely have gone to NUS/SMU/NTU. The whole point of going abroad is to broaden your horizons, experience things that Singapore would never have offered, and well, its all or nothing for me.</p>
<p>Well, people go overseas for different reasons. Some go for the quality of education, some go for the research facilities, some, like you(and me, hopefully), go for the experience and some go for the brandname. Ah....the American Dream...</p>
<p>well let's just say I wish I can strike a balance somewhere. I want the overseas experience, I want to pursue my American dream, I want to learn for the sake of learning, I want to experience the four seasons, but I'm also afraid of being in a place devoid of people who's from the same background and culture as myself, whom you'll feel immediately comfortable with. then again, I don't think I've much of a choice. </p>
<p>btw, the singaporean going to Williams i was refering to, is none other than yourself glenn... your dear bmt section mate here.</p>
<p>I haven't seen snow in my life! I missed the opporunity twice; it snowed the day after I descended from the Yellow mountains in China and it snowed the morning before I reached Beijing. Damn weather. I bet the states will suffer a four year no snow period if I go.</p>
<p>Probably not anything from sports shops in singapore. I wore track shoes with a hole in front(and one pair of socks) on my trip to beijing. I almost died.</p>
<p>i also had to choose btw duke and brown. econs-wise, both are good but not up there with the best like Chicago. Brown is stronger in IR whilst Duke's forte is Public Policy. If u want more flexibility, than go for Brown.</p>
<p>duke is often called the harvard of the south but i think that's a bit too flattering. however it does have a great biz school in fuqua</p>
<p>um haha yes wang lee hom was from williams. he had a perfect gpa and was valedictorian of his high school in rochester, ny. and also rejected acceptances from yale and stanford. goh chok tong went to williams too, if you're building a famous asian alumni list.</p>
<p>and so is that dood from NParks, cant remember his name but he attended williams. </p>
<p>nadash, i know this is OOP but during the gep study MOE conducted this year, they asked weird qns like ... do u have sadistic tendencies? do you feel like killing mice? sth along these lines.</p>
<p>Nadash, being from GEP is probably not a hook. No one I know mentioned it at all because it sounds unnecessarily narcissistic.</p>
<p>I did the GEP survey too and there was some question "Do you hate small animals?" I checked YES for the fun of it. Apparently GEP produces sadistic animal-killing, grade-grubbing machines. I never figured out what the difference between GEP and mainstream was; MOE has enlightened me in that. =p</p>
<p>I got rejected everywhere except Duke and Chicago, which was better than expected. I intend to major in Geography/Economics (and Chicago is hence the clear choice), but still not sure if I should go to the US after all. Any one deliberating between US and UK too?</p>
<p>kenyon_10: tell me about it, maybe MOE feels that the GEP system has massproduced a bunch of psychotic killers</p>
<p>jeremymjr: i guess u shd look at the kind of education system you want. should u want sth more specialised, go to uk. but if u want a broadbased education where u can pick up peripheral skills, us is the way to go. all things aside (cost, family, etc.) maybe u shd do the singaproean thing and decide by prestige</p>
<p>UChicago's Econs is great, but like scandal-less said, prestige wise it doesn't "match up" from the Singaporean perspective. I'm quite tempted to do the Singaporean thing and choose by prestige at this point since I'm going to pay a good 250k anyway. </p>
<p>I guess I'm trying to decide by subject now because I applied for Law in the UK and everyone says Law is a better general degree, with the prestige factor to boot.</p>
<p>Nadash:
A Levels: AAAA A1 DD
SATS I: 800V 780M 720 W
SATS II: 760 Literature 790 Math IIC</p>
<p>Uni apps were more of a lottery than I expected - and no I don't think they bothered to look at A Level results; they probably only looked at predicted grades.</p>
<p>wow nice stats there. but eh, since when is a law degree a good GENERAL degree? i would assume anything else (except medicine maybe) is more suitable for someone who's unsure of what he/she's gonna do or wants to keep options open... law is just too specific. i mean, more of often then not, the path is 1. lawyer forever, or 2. lawyer -> politician. </p>