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From ITE to NUS medicine: Ex-dropout makes the grade
23-year-old, who had quit secondary school, is first ITE grad to be accepted by med school
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Mr Nicholas Chan frequently played truant when he was a student at Bishan Park Secondary School and eventually quit studies there.
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The long shot has come good.
Mr Nicholas Chan, 23, is the first Institute of Technical Education (ITE) graduate to make it to the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, which this year had about 280 places for some 2,000 applicants.
