Nicholas is grateful that NUS accepted him. - The Straits Times/Asia News Network
NICHOLAS Chan, 23, is the first Institute of Technical Education (ITE) graduate to make it to the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, which this year had about 280 places for some 2,000 applicants.
Far from being a straight-A student, he had quit secondary school, taken the O levels as a private candidate, then trained as a nursing student in ITE, and then Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP).
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