Bound for Ivy league and top universities

After much perseverance and work, a group of 10 students who scored straight As after sitting the November 2011 A-Level examinations were invited to a tea gathering hosted by Sunway College recently before they began their university studies overseas. Joined by a few others at the tea, most of the 10 said they were grateful to the helpful lecturers in the A-Level programme and proud to be in this group.

Left to right, back row are Lee Yee Chang, Tham Yow Wai, Fariz Iskandar Faisal Khoo, Loh Wei Lian, Yew Sheng Qian, Chong Zhi Sin. Seated from left to right, front row are Chan Mei Yen, Lim Chia Ying, Nisha Alina Binti Mohamed Mushaini, Lim Qian Wen and Harmeet Kaur Maan a/p Abtar Singh

Among them was Tham Yow Wai who had already made Sunway proud when he received an Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award in November last year for achieving Top in Malaysia for Mathematics AS level in his June 2011 examinations.

Tham said “I had a lot of fun and met a lot of great people in the programme. The lecturers were very committed and had the personal touch which benefited all of us tremendously.” Tham was planning to apply to Ivy League universities, MIT or Caltech to study Mechanical Engineering. Tham’s classmate Fariz Iskandar Faizal Khoo also plans to study Mechanical Engineering and has obtained a place at Imperial College to pursue the course.

The group have all made applications to study in various top universities in the US, UK, Australia, Singapore and locally to study Engineering, Medicine, Pharmacy, Optometry and Accounting.

Yew Sheng Qian who plans to study Medicine in IMU said, “I loved the Sunway A-Level programme, and the mentor-mentee system is great as it is nice to get attention from lecturers. The teaching here is different from the Malaysian secondary school style of teaching.”