Supply and Demand at Brand Name US Colleges
News reports from the NY Times, WSJ and Bloomberg on selective colleges getting even more selective. Just a decade ago, such extremely competitive admissions (based on my experience with peers applying together from Ghim Moh JC) were restricted only to a few select US colleges. Teachers would only write LORs (letters of recommendations)/encourage the best (defined by their 3 S-papers, Science/Math Olympiad medals etc etc) to those applying to HYPSM and Caltech. I am still not sure if it is true, but the word going around was that these universities had set a 'low quota' for successful Singapore applicants.
The applicant numbers are rising, but the places available are still pretty much constant.
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This article reminded me of the students from a certain high school. But who am I to criticize? After all I am a beneficiary of the system. Hence my snigger when friends say they want to go to New Orleans to help rebuild the city. Yeah...right.
2 comments:
i just forwarded that article (and related nyt articles) to the S Econs list! singaporean students are pretty much screwed la, unless they actually have good CCA records, preferably sports. Even music probably won't help considering how a third of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is Asian.
xue, I'm going to friend you on facebook.
its getting harder and harder to get in - its true, every freshmen class that gets in here... makes me feel even more dumb...
some freshmen come in.. and they're in senior level classes already... its scary...
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