JC or POLY ...... Help....

• teekh

  6 Aug 05, 20:41

  Originally posted by caleb_chiang:

  Polytechnic more freedom...
  
  JC more restriction...
  
  Polytechnic good result still able to pursue U... JC no good result then you end up at Poly...
  
  You decide...

  Anyway, that's why I said in the earlier post that go JC only if you are confident and are gd enough. I've also seen a good number of my mates(usually those that work farking hard just to scrape a decent score) who ngeh ngeh go JC and screw up their lives...
  
  Of course, if you are good and choose to go Poly, you still can go U. But your choice of course is limited, or that you don't have a one-year reduction in uni to compensate for the extra year in poly when you choose a non-compatible course. Generally, most Poly people I know who wanna further their studies end up in SIM or some Aussie universities, in some cases 2nd or even 3rd-tier ones...
  
  Anyway, I think finance_geek is too extreme...poly do have its merits...
• c0ol_blu3z

  6 Aug 05, 20:44

  so 'A' lvl cert ( not uni) is more useless than ani poly diploma?????
• sbst275

  6 Aug 05, 20:45

  Originally posted by c0ol_blu3z:

  so 'A' lvl cert ( not uni) is more useless than ani poly diploma?????

  You cannot find job with just A level cert
• vito_corleone

  8 Aug 05, 02:03

  Originally posted by teekh:

  $2.5 k is a starting pay btw. Unless you mean that US$11,000 is their starting pay over there, which i think it's very unlikely. My friend studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at US Berkeley(2nd in Engineering in the US btw) told me that the starting pay for them is about US$4000-5000 only. But that is not discounting the fact of the high cost(at least twice of SG) of living plus the high cost of health services, high insurance premiums and high taxes over there (30+% while most Singaporeans hardly pay any tax at all).

  oh you'll be surprised i know many NUS business grads who don't earn more than 5k a month even after 10 years of working.. you must be a useless bum trying to put down others because of your jealousy of their success either that or you're some ite students who didnt make it to poly or some rj geek who got picked on by some poly kids.. school ranking doesnt matter...the founder of oracle dropped out of college and is now the 2nd richest man in the world...steven spielberg was from a nameless film school and so was warren buffet..he was from nebraska-lincoln..heard of? no right? ok in case you don't know who warren buffet is he's one of the worl'd richest men and nebraska based investor. california's standard of living is not very high..have you even been to california?