US APPLICATIONS DONE
It is FINALLY DONE! What a relief!
Yes I may have been a little too optimistic. I only applied to the HARDEST-to-get-into universities (for engineering) in the US.
After all the thinking, I ended up applying to FIVE Universities in the United States:
1) MIT (Applying financial aid)
2) Stanford
3) UC Berkeley
4) Princeton (Applying financial aid)
5) Cornell
(Why no Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth? Engineering is not their forte IMO)
I don’t get how some people can apply to so many (10, 13, 15?) I am already very tired at five. So much time and late nights went to the essays. So much double checking, so much peer reviews. So sick of it. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. FIVE.
As you can see, no safeties there. It is very likely that I might be rejected by all five. When that happens, I would say “Hello Singapore” again. (NUS) Yup, thinking big and acting on it won’t hurt. At the end of the day, I believe that an education does not equal where you went to for university. Frankly, I would rather earn respect through my own character than from my alma mater’s big name.
But… just try lah… no harm
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