Singaporean connection

<p>I guess when I said general degree I think people meant that if I took Law I probably could go into management, banking or law itself. There are a fair number of law graduates that eventually don't practice. I guess Law is not so much a professional degree overseas as it is here; it's more of jurisprudence.</p>

<p>I really like what I saw in the Chicago package though, so I'm actively considering Chicago - not to mention that the Chicago economics faculty is quite amazing (and I'm for the free market). My counsellor did mention that Chicago was the best fit school for me, though I'm a bit wary of the classical core curriculum.</p>

<p>PS. I actually thought that Medicine was the degree to go for the undecided, heck every science student with 3As applies for medicine. =p</p>

<p>jeremymjr: yes, law is a great general degree. contrary to what woebegone said, law is hardly career-specific. with a law degree you could go into HR, PR or so many other things. </p>

<p>all the best with your decision yaps.</p>

<p>haha i've noticed some of your posts contain certain gaming lingo such as "ownage" and "holy ****".</p>

<p>you guys play too much DoTA, but it's funny nevertheless... :)</p>

<p>erm, well if u wanna put it that way, any other degree is a great general degree, be it liberal arts, business, engineering, medicine degree. there's so much things one can do regardless of his degree yes, but a degree like law is apparently career-specific. granted, one can choose not to thread the common path, but fact remains most with the degree do. especially for law - as with medicine, for that matter.</p>

<p>God-like acads! Are your ECs Godlike, too?(too much time on CC, I don't use the term CCAs anymore =D) </p>

<p>What are considered good ECs in Singapore. Who are we up against? Frankly I'm not too worry about my academics, except maybe Art(so subjective).
I have like two leadership posts now, one Pres, one exco. I had an exco in secondary school, but still got B4 for CCAs(never turned up for NPCC). I am going to be quite involved in things like school forums, online newspapers and student development websites, which I am founding.
However my competitions, national or international, come to a grand total of .....nil. I am joining quite a few online digital art design competitions, but I doubt my chances of winning, which decreases exponetially with the renown of the contest.
My CIP is limited to reading to kids in a library for now. I am organizing 2 more CIPs, teaching old folks, and reading to kids now. Also I plan to join this CIP where you help disabled people rid horses. Sounds fun =D.
And I am probably going into at least one internships after A levels. And do some more CIP. And start my web-design business.</p>

<p>And I want to go Yale. </p>

<p>****......I just divulged a whole load of personal infomation. =P</p>

<p>That's pretty stats there jeremy. </p>

<p>If you look at the entertainment scene, there's a number of ex-lawyers or people who have got a law degree in there. Law's actually fairly flexible locally. Larger number of law graduates are not practicing upon graduation or quitting after a few years. Wouldn't architecture be more limiting?</p>

<p>Didn't you mention that you were looking into LACs jeremy?</p>

<p>Hey everyone.. I am kind of new to this forum but decided to post here since it is familiar Singapore.. I completed my "A" Levels recently and planning to do Chemical Engineering.. I am kind of wondering whether the UK or US is better? Does the THES ranking really dictate the quality of education you receive?</p>

<p>Nadash: No god-like ECs, very very far from it. I get the feeling it's not so much how much/what you do but how you present it, unless you represent Singapore (as a sidenote I have a friend who has great academics and represents Singapore in sports and she didn't get into her first choice). I doubt anyone knows exactly what ticks, and most of the time it depends on the year in question. Hey guys get to try again and again, so that's already an advantage in itself, you could get lucky in any of the three years!</p>

<p>dtwn: I was looking into LACs, but looking at my application list, the only LAC I applied for (and duly rejected from) was Dartmouth - if you can classify that as one. The thing is, I didn't apply for financial aid as my parents are sponsoring me, and they wanted me to go somewhere where they could get their bang for the buck (read: prestige). </p>

<p>depression_10: Exactly my dilemma, except my subject combination is different. UK is highly specialised, US is more broad-based. That's the basic difference, and the rest probably comes down to the school itself. Look at the THES for "prestige" if you will - I do, but a high position in the rankings probably has zero correlation with undergraduate quality. Most times, these rankings are based on nebulous concepts of citations, research, peer review - all of which probably relate better to graduate school quality than undergraduate quality. But honestly, who believes that NUS is better than Cornell, Brown, Columbia, Princeton? =p</p>

<p>Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I guess I still have until mid-April to sleep on it. It's hard to decide between subjects I already love (Economics/Geography), and a subject that I saw myself doing in university for many years (Law).</p>

<p>hey all. i'm pretty new to this board and am glad to see a s'porean thread. i haven't got the time to read thru the entire thread yet, but i was wondering if anyone here's applying to (or are already in) LACs? specifically carleton, vassar, pomona and/or grinnell?</p>

<p>jeyy, yup a couple of people on this thread are in/applying for lacs.</p>

<p>kenyon_10, for example, is going to kenyon.
woebegone has been accepted to bates and conn.
sixsixty is going to williams...</p>

<p>and welcome here!</p>

<p>Well, I'm glad.. My ECs are far from god-like..</p>

<p>erm and jeyy... from what I know, at Bates this year... there are quite a number of applicants from Singapore school who managed to get in. 1 from Tampines (singaporean), 1 from Raffles (Singaporean), 1 from Victoria (PRC), 1 from HCI (PRC)... So there are people from Singapore applying to LACs. Good luck!</p>

<p>depression 10... erm perhaps you should seriously consider NUS. =)</p>

<p>Yup, NUS engineering is 9th in the world. However, I still recommend going overseas for the experience. I get the feeling that US is better, with schools like MIT, Cornell and Caltech.</p>

<p>Perhaps 109th.... nt a fan of NUS.</p>

<p>gennie: yea i got into berkeley.</p>

<p>check this out, Tyng scholarship winner at Williams:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.questbridge.org/students/profiles_class2010/cheng_steven.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.questbridge.org/students/profiles_class2010/cheng_steven.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>lol naff.</p>

<p>i still don't understand how i'm waitlisted by carleton and stanford but rejected by grinnell.</p>

<p>hi jeyy!
responding to your LAC question in the previous page:
i applied to vassar 2010 and was accepted.</p>

<p>hav u been accepted by any of those LAC jevy?</p>