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Secondary school dropout becomes first ITE graduate to get into NUS medical school
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SINGAPORE - 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 about 2,000 applicants.


