Came across this article which describes how SMU is not as it claims to be. It is so biased that anyone reading it will have their wrath incurred even though they're not from SMU. It's quite politically incorrect as Dot puts it. Is SMU really that bad?The author dispels the fact that SMU is just pretty doll on the outside with all the facilities but really nothing much is learnt there. But I'll have to agree that SMU is an overhyped campus with excellent marketing strategies. I'd have taken an SEP there if there were courses avaliable for me there. Unfortunately I don't think they don't even have that word Engineering anywhere on campus.
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/columnists/story/0,4136,106866,00.html

The only SMU guy I know is an Elitist with a GPA of over 4. (In case you didn't know 4 is the max. But if you get A+ you get slighty more points), worries about getting a A that'll pull down his GPA. SMU is far too competitive for me. I'd rather stay in the "conventional education hub which supposedly mass-produces generic graduates from the NUS oven." the author so aptly puts it.