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Sat Sep 20 16:36:09 UTC 2014 <moriarty> their entire education system is tiered, with forks occuring after junior school, after high school, and after pre-university
Sat Sep 20 16:35:38 UTC 2014 <moriarty> in singapore, there is no room for change though, there is no automatic pass up the high school ladder, if you fail or do poorly, you get streamlined to the lower education tier
Sat Sep 20 16:34:06 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, i guess in a way you could say singapore is being "kinder" by telling you upfront that if you take that course, your employment chances will be fucked, so let's help make this idiot-proof as possible by barring you from choosing that road
Sat Sep 20 16:34:02 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> !up moriarty
Sat Sep 20 16:32:15 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, lol
Sat Sep 20 16:31:54 UTC 2014 <moriarty> if you take a highly subscribed course but you are not cream of the crop, then you are assigned a less serious university, and you may harbour fantasies of serendipity working in your favour come working world time, but that wouldn't logically happen
Sat Sep 20 16:31:25 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> moriarty it's not "the governemnt" any more than it's gravity.
Sat Sep 20 16:31:19 UTC 2014 <moriarty> so the threshold is adjusted based on your choice, your funeral
Sat Sep 20 16:31:01 UTC 2014 <moriarty> you are given six choices of universities for ideally the same major (you could even mix and match majors but let's take the simpler assumption)
Sat Sep 20 16:30:39 UTC 2014 <moriarty> in the UK, the same thing happens, but it is done more surreptiously so the pain is less obvious
Sat Sep 20 16:29:15 UTC 2014 <moriarty> and the government decides their whole lives for them
Sat Sep 20 16:29:09 UTC 2014 <moriarty> i imagine singaporeans must be accustomed to not getting their way at anything
Sat Sep 20 16:29:01 UTC 2014 <moriarty> that would be painful, or not since i'm looking at it from a western point of view :)
Sat Sep 20 16:28:45 UTC 2014 <moriarty> imagine, if you wrote down six majors you thought you wanted to do in order of preference, only to be given your last choice
Sat Sep 20 16:28:30 UTC 2014 <moriarty> yep, but leaves little room for individualism
Sat Sep 20 16:28:01 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, so if photography has low demand but high applicant rates, then most of them get rejected
Sat Sep 20 16:27:45 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, singapore took your opinion to a slightly more extreme point, their university application form consists of a ranking of six majors, and the state then allocates a major to you based on a threshold that is demand-adjusted
Sat Sep 20 16:26:46 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, haha good point
Sat Sep 20 16:26:18 UTC 2014 <moriarty> bounce, it is cheaper to go to some universities than others, geographically as well as prestige-wise
Sat Sep 20 16:26:04 UTC 2014 <moriarty> bounce, alongside funding opportunities