US Universities Application FAQ V.2

[caramel_nut]

Originally Posted by silent_man

Has anyone been to Dr. Chris,President of MIT Malaysia?
He was scary, coz his credentials were outstanding!
Bt he was really very inspiring..

Aiyah, what are you worrying? Dr Christopher is also very nice and nowhere near mean. Even he is interviewing huh? Number of applicants must have jumped up by quite a bit. In the past years, Dr Ewe alone could handle all interviews.

Good luck anyhow! I'm excited to see new Malaysian freshmen coming in.

[capablanca]

Lots more application to MIT this year? That's great. I still remember the comparison speech about Singaporean and Malaysian students in MIT. After listening to that, I felt darn motivated to apply to MIT. But in the end, also didn't apply.

[chenchow]

Originally Posted by caramel_nut

Aiyah, what are you worrying? Dr Christopher is also very nice and nowhere near mean. Even he is interviewing huh? Number of applicants must have jumped up by quite a bit. In the past years, Dr Ewe alone could handle all interviews.

Good luck anyhow! I'm excited to see new Malaysian freshmen coming in.

caramel_nut, Dr. Christopher has been doing interview. In fact, for past years, Suresh Thiru (COO of JobStreet.com), Kay Yip (co-founder and Director of JobStreet.com) have been conducting interview for MIT too.

On the credentials of interviewers for various US universities in Malaysia, some of the credentials include:-
a) Former Deputy Minister
b) Former ISA
c) VP of a Government-Linked Companies
d) Director of an Investment Bank
e) General Manager of a 5-star Hotel
f) Founder of Companies
g) CEO/COO/MD etc of Companies
h) Former Speech Writer of Prime Minister
i) Former Special Officer of Ministers
j) Drafter of Malaysia-USA Free Trade Agreement
k) Drafter of Malaysia Budget
l) Former staff of Hong Kong Security Commissioner
m) Former intern at NASA
n) working at Silicon Valley, Wall Street etc

Those are some of the titles of interviewers in Malaysia for US Universities. But they are all very nice people, and when they do this, they are wearing the cap of their university alumni.

Good Luck!

[clep]

Originally Posted by gman

hi guys, i would really appreciate if anyone can help me here. you see, yesterday, i was about to submit my application about an hour before the deadline. suddenly, my house had a blackout just before i was going to submit it (i know it is hard to believe). the electricity came back a few minutes before the deadline and i rushed to submit my application. however, after i submitted the application, it said that my supplement was sent on the 1st of january while the rest of my application was submitted on the 2nd of january. i have decided to send an email to the university to explain my situation. is there anything else that i should do?

If it helps, the same thing happened to mine and they still read my application anyway. As long as you were able to submit it you'll be fine. Don't worry!

(If they are anal about stuff like that, would you want to go to their university anyway? ;) )

[chongkeat]

On the credentials of interviewers for various US universities in Malaysia, some of the credentials include:-
a) Former Deputy Minister

Oooh, who's that? Do tell?

[chenchow]

Originally Posted by chongkeat

Oooh, who's that? Do tell?

Dr. Goh Cheng Teik (Harvard Interviewer).

It could be Dr. Goh or Nat Tan doing Harvard interview this year.

[gman]

thank you very much KJ-C, chenchow, caramel_nut and clep for your advice. i hope my university gets my application!

[silent_man]

Anyone has any ideas as to when the Harvard interviews would be held? I emailed them, twice act, and both times I got an automated response saying that they do not provide interviews in Malaysia (it was not in the listed interview countries).
Do I have to wait for them to call me up?

[k3nth]

Originally Posted by chenchow

caramel_nut, Dr. Christopher has been doing interview. In fact, for past years, Suresh Thiru (COO of JobStreet.com), Kay Yip (co-founder and Director of JobStreet.com) have been conducting interview for MIT too.

On the credentials of interviewers for various US universities in Malaysia, some of the credentials include:-
a) Former Deputy Minister
b) Former ISA
c) VP of a Government-Linked Companies
d) Director of an Investment Bank
e) General Manager of a 5-star Hotel
f) Founder of Companies
g) CEO/COO/MD etc of Companies
h) Former Speech Writer of Prime Minister
i) Former Special Officer of Ministers
j) Drafter of Malaysia-USA Free Trade Agreement
k) Drafter of Malaysia Budget
l) Former staff of Hong Kong Security Commissioner
m) Former intern at NASA
n) working at Silicon Valley, Wall Street etc

Those are some of the titles of interviewers in Malaysia for US Universities. But they are all very nice people, and when they do this, they are wearing the cap of their university alumni.

Good Luck!

WOW!

And, I really liked the last sentence. Shows much dedication and passion for Uni! =)

[skyblues]

Originally Posted by silent_man

Anyone has any ideas as to when the Harvard interviews would be held? I emailed them, twice act, and both times I got an automated response saying that they do not provide interviews in Malaysia (it was not in the listed interview countries).
Do I have to wait for them to call me up?

i guess in the previous post chenchow stated that harvard conducts interviews only with shorlisted applicants.