Coming from Pioneer Junior College and with a grade "C" marring his otherwise perfect A-level results, Mr Tan Ying Li did not think he would make it to the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
When he did not succeed with his first two applications, he was ready to settle for his second choice - to study mathematics.
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