i have never been in Singapore before. But obviously, I know a couple of names there. At this point, you made a wise decision that you chose NUS but CUNY last year. Congrats.
Yes, she was in HKUST and has very strong letters and other background.
I know the Stanford girl well. She is in the field of organizational ecology. She has gotten a lot of offers at the same time:
Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Columbia, ....
Her advisor is a graduate from Stanford.
hehe, she was smart to choose Stanford. Jesper Sorensen and Glenn Carroll are joining stanford the fall 2006. Also with Huggy, the department is getting back its strength.