[H]aving received a scholarship from the Singapore government isn’t going to seal your admission to the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought or a job at Microsoft after your bond expires (or even before that, if you decide to break it); at most it’ll guarantee you a cushy job in the administrative service. Did you really grow up wanting to be a…civil servant? - kungfuzi, A Pedagogue’s Progress, 2006-11-03

He signed on the dotted line because his parents told him it was a prestigious scholarship. He majored in engineering because no one else told him that there were other options. He came back to serve his bond thinking that he was going to make a difference for the scholarship recruitment talk told him that they were going to the people who were going to affect policy-making and shape the country. What the recruitment talk failed to tell them…- lovebell, comment on “Scholars: A Species of Ugly Brats?“, 2006-02-12

Don’t let this happen to you or someone you know and care about. If you someone who is contemplating a government scholarship because he/she thinks it’s the only viable solution around, please tell them about The Incomplete Guide to Financial Aid for Singaporeans.

I’m not telling people to avoid government scholarships, I just want people to know their options before committing themselves to something that they might regret.