Singapore Helped American Star Student Come Up Tops

245,000 Americans took the American College Testing examinations in 2000, which is similar to the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT), and he came up tops.

William, an 18-year-old American student, made headlines in Denver, Colorado, USA when he was featured in The Denver Post.

He was the only one in Denver and one of 11 in the United States to get a perfect score of 36 in the examinations.

William credits his success to the primary school education he received in Singapore from 1990 to 1995.

He said, "My education here has definitely prepared me for whatever the American system can throw at me.

"I saw my friends being very motivated to do well for themselves as well as for their families and the school.

"This kind of respect you don't get so much in the States."

William has completed high school in the US, and he will study computer science at Duke University in North Carolina on a university scholarship.

Source: The Straits Times (Singapore) 20 June 2001