Welcome all!: December 2017

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Informatics Olympiad Training, IOI 2018, Internship, NUS SoC

Lim Li has been quite busy after she has finished her NUS High final exams in the second week of Oct. She has done/will be doing the following:

Oct - Nov: Taught a group of Primary 4-6 students Intro to Informatics Olympiad (IO); they were taught in groups of two, 3 sessions per group
Nov: Provided IO training to RI and RGS students, in RI
Nov: Provided 4 sessions of Basic IO training to 30+ students (from various schools in Singapore), in NUS School of Computing (SoC)
Dec: Providing 12 sessions of Advanced IO training, in NUS SoC
Jun - Sep 2018: Main trainer for IOI 2018 Singapore Team
Sep 2018: Accompanying Singapore Team to IOI 2018 in Japan

She has also secured an internship with a game design company, from Jan to Apr 2018.

Aug 2018: Starting Computer Science undergraduate course at NUS SoC

Monday, 4 December 2017

Singapore Schools' Oxbridge Applications, Offers & Acceptances in 2014-2016 Admission Cycles

Below are statistics of Singapore schools with considerable applications to and offers from Oxbridge. For complete lists, please refer to the respective Cambridge and Oxford application statistics websites' links after the tables below.

Note that 'admissions cycle' refers to the UCAS Apply cycle in which applications are considered, eg '2016 cycle' refers to applications made from September 2015 onwards for admission to courses starting in October 2016 or by deferred entry for courses starting in 2017.


2016 Admission Cycle		Cambridge 剑桥			Oxford 牛津
UCAS Sch ID		Applns	Offers	Acceptances	Applns	Offers	Acceptances
45199	HCI 华中	81	18 (22%)	12 (15%)	61	17 (28%)	16 (26%)
45681	ACSI 英华自主	63	15 (24%)	13 (21%)	39	5 (13%)	4 (10%)
45765	SJII 圣约瑟国际	9	3 (33%)	3 (33%)	8	2 (25%)	2 (25%)
45769	NUSH 国大附中	20	7 (35%)	4 (20%)	13	3 (23%)	3 (23%)
45777	DHS 德明	12	<3	<3	13	3 (23%)	3 (23%)
46015	RVHS 立化	6	<3	<3	5	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
48056	RI 莱初	109	35 (32%)	26 (24%)	134	35 (26%)	27 (20%)
48057	ACJC 英初	16	<3	<3	11	3 (27%)	3 (27%)
48058	NJC 国初	21	6 (29%)	<3	15	2 (13%)	1 (7%)
48091	VJC 维初	35	9 (26%)	7 (20%)	25	5 (20%)	5 (20%)

2015 Admission Cycle		Cambridge 剑桥			Oxford 牛津
UCAS Sch ID		Applns	Offers	Acceptances	Applns	Offers	Acceptances
45199	HCI 华中	83	26 (31%)	20 (24%)	71	19 (27%)	15 (21%)
45539	OFS	6	3 (50%)	<3	2	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
45681	ACSI 英华自主	53	15 (28%)	15 (28%)	46	7 (15%)	5 (11%)
45765	SJII 圣约瑟国际	7	3 (43%)	<3	12	4 (33%)	2 (17%)
45769	NUSH 国大附中	21	4 (19%)	4 (19%)	12	4 (33%)	3 (25%)
45777	DHS 德明	15	3 (20%)	3 (20%)	44	8 (18%)	6 (14%)
46015	RVHS 立化	11	<3	<3	20	5 (25%)	4 (20%)
48056	RI 莱初	136	39 (29%)	26 (19%)	161	39 (24%)	19 (12%)
48057	ACJC 英初	24	7 (29%)	7 (29%)	10	1 (10%)	1 (10%)
48058	NJC 国初	18	<3	<3	18	2 (11%)	1 (6%)
48091	VJC 维初	22	<3	<3	26	6 (23%)	5 (19%)

2014 Admission Cycle		Cambridge 剑桥			Oxford 牛津
UCAS Sch ID		Applns	Offers	Acceptances	Applns	Offers	Acceptances
45126	Tanglin Trust Sch	7	4 (57%)	4 (57%)	11	2 (18%)	2 (18%)
45199	HCI 华中	84	24(29%)	16 (19%)	68	20 (29%)	16 (24%)
45681	ACSI 英华自主	62	16 (26%)	12 (19%)	55	7 (13%)	6 (11%)
45765	SJII 圣约瑟国际	7	3 (43%)	3 (43%)	5	2 (40%)	2 (40%)
45769	NUSH 国大附中	19	8 (42%)	8 (42%)	12	3 (25%)	1 (8%)
45777	DHS 德明	15	<3	<3	20	2 (10%)	2 (10%)
46015	RVHS 立化	9	<3	<3	17	2 (12%)	2 (12%)
48056	RI 莱初	123	37 (30%)	27 (22%)	132	40 (30%)	31 (23%)
48057	ACJC 英初	24	6 (25%)	4 (17%)	9	1 (11%)	1 (11%)
48058	NJC 国初	13	3 (23%)	<3	14	2 (14%)	2 (14%)
48091	VJC 维初	30	5 (17%)	5 (17%)	28	6 (21%)	5 (18%)

Cambridge Application Statistics
(refer to Applications, Offers & Acceptances by UCAS Apply Centre on the right of webpage)

Oxford Applications and Acceptances by UCAS Apply Centre (update on 25 Nov 2018: it appears that this link is no longer accessible, check this new link instead)