JC vs POLY vs UNI
when i entered university of buffalo everyone who asked me my age would definitely ask me this question : why didnt you go to JC or poly ? well.. to answer that question i didnt intend to take the Junior College route and i did not managed to get the course which i wanted to attend in polytechnic therefore i looked into other alternatives – Private schools and i so happen to find out that i was doing a degree when i was half way into my first semester.
by the time i graduate i will probably be about 19/20 years old while many of my other friends would just start their university life. CULTURE was what was taught in class the previous lesson, people choose to go different paths after secondary schools could be affected by the culture they are brought up in.
many may go through the traditional route of going to junior college get a A level certificate and go into local university while some would go into polytechnics get a diploma in a course they like and proceed onto university.
whereas a minority like me would take a shorter route by going straight to a private university . many parents would choose to play it save by at least having a A level or diploma certificate so that if their children do not do well in university they still have a backing to depend on so enter other universities whereas others would think that by going into university straight after an O level would save alot of time for the child although a huge amount may be spent at one go but if you think about it those who go through JC or ploy also spend almost as much as the amount of going straight into university.
culture really shapes ones perception about things wheather the parents are conventional and prefer the child to go through the normal route that that majority would go through or that they would prefer the child to via the private school or even to be homeschooled through out their entire school life.
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By: Zhang Jingyi on October 18, 2009
at 3:45 pm
Did you know that there’s also the private school student stereotype?
People think that they’re rich and stuck up just because they pay for school. Which is NOT true. We are normal people.
By: Aloysius on October 23, 2009
at 6:32 am
If culture shapes one’s perception, are you saying that because of your dad’s influence, your perception of the route you chose to take at this junction differed from your peers?
For one, in a collectivist culture, it is certainly not easy to deviate from the path well travelled and move away from the pack.
By: ruud on October 24, 2009
at 4:15 pm
Yeah, we’ve all been through the conundrum of what academic path we should take next, especially when the path that everyone expects us to take isn’t available to us because of grades and such. It’s hard to deviate from that path, especially since our culture had ingrained it into us that we have to get a local degree and be successful, well paid bosses. The natural evolving process that our social mindset should be going through should rightfully encourage more open mindedness towards this issue, but Singapore is just too competitive for us to try anything other than the tested and true path.
By: Chander on November 7, 2009
at 5:35 pm