AS per topic, i urge any budding LYNers aiming to go to CAL or A Levels for that matter,PLEASE refrain yourself from attending Taylors' College. I will provide you with few solid reasons why, since I'm the disappointed alumni from there.

1) Firstly, it is not as glamorous and "syiok" looking as what they've marketed. FYI, taylor's, IMO , is one of the most overrated and over-marketed colleges in malaysia. You could judge this by just looking at the number of students they take every intake, where in the world would you find colleges recruiting students like mass recruitment of illegal immigrants, sometimes even exceeding 900 just for A Levels. Bsides that, the place is so crowded and hence NEVER conducive. Apart from that, they've many students whom are enrolling in the colleges just for the sake of the brand name, ie. Glamour. Not all of them are taking their studies seriously. Things might be different if you're from pre-medicine classes though. Thus, if you yearn for personal attention and a more pastoral kind of care given to you, please go to better colleges like KYUEM or KTJ, even INTI and KDU does better at this than Taylor's. In this, the environment makes you feel it's high school all over again.

2) Secondly, recently, i've just noticed that TCSJ had even taken away their so called state-of-the-art cafeteria, and replaced it with another world-class study zone. THis indirectly means more expensive meals for you guys, the students. FOod around the area is not cheap, for that matter, even a bowl of noodle soup at Asia Cafe will costs you bout' RM 6-7 the least, unless you are willing to sweat it out and take a long walk to the market in SS15 OR have McD for lunch everyday. Furthermore, taylor's charges you for every single facility you use. From what i heard, at lakeside, even students have no privilege in parking ie student parking for free for instance, they were charged 3 bucks per DAY! Imagine the huge profit they raked in just from there.

3) Thirdly, their lecturers are of uneven quality, and they changes every semester, this is true in the case of GCE Cambridge A Level. You will constantly hear your peers or even you yourself complaining about the quality of the lecturers. I'm not being a sour grape here by complaining this and that, I know that this happens in every college, but to pay such an exorbitant fees for such a service, its a total rip-off. For my case, my Physics lecturer was totally off the mark in the way he couldn't even present his points properly and sometimes getting the concept across, i still remembered clearly one moment whereby he was so dumbstruck with the answer of a PYQ that he was stunned there for almost 1/2 an hour thinking of the answer.In addtion to this, during his class, due to his leniency, the students, especially the naughty and playful arseholes, tend to make hell lot of noise as if we were in a Medan Selera and not a classroom, as such making it extremely difficult to stay focus and our lecturer pays no attention to it. Hence, i really felt like i've had paid a downpayment for a BMW only to be given a sub-par second hand BMW with Proton engine.

That's all i have to say, i welcome any feedbacks, and if anyone of you here are from boarding school like Concord College, KTJ, KYUEM or even other colleges like HELP, welcome to privde me with your feedback. HeLp also has a mass student body, but im very doubtful if they do experienced what i've gone through, anyone here, pls feel free to provide fruitful feedbacks

then is it fair to me for paying such an exorbitant fees to deserve such a service?

the bolded part is absolutely incorrect. In fact, this only applies to overseas top colleges and universities lyk the Ivy leagues and Oxbridge. Here in Malaysia, do you see big employers for that matter give a shit bout which colleges you graduated from? No! In Malaysia, as long as you have the paper qualification, people does not give a shit bout where you are from, since all they need is just cheap labour, especially chinamen companies. And Yes, the lecturers that i have are okay except Physics. The problem is WE pay exorbitant fees, hence you expect at LEAST a certain extent of quality, but if you are short changed with the quality of the lecturers you get, i ask you, won't you feel agitated and angry? It's not a matter of this happening in every college, but its a matter of putting your money where your mouth is. If Taylor's fees is only 20k or 15k for instance, them fine with that, i won't argue, i may even get a pleasant surprise by getting more than what it's worth. Put this in this way, you don't expect me to get a proton engine in a ferrari when i've actually paid for a BMW. And im sure you will agree that Taylor's college recruits student in such humungous amount that the place seems more like a supermarket than an educational institution. Go check out colleges like Concord College, Cardiff Sixth Form College and you'll understand what i'm actually trying to say. How do you get personal attention when your class is so huge like for instance, about 30-33 people. It's like high school all over again.

Indeed, to be honest, i felt abit agitated when the dean of Sunway said we are the best college in Malaysia, with a Tier 5-6 rating... And whatmore, they mentioned that Sunway College is NOT a business. i was like what the heck? Just because the entire Sunway Edu Group is being placed into a so called trust fund, does not mean it's no longer a profit-making entity.Hmm... in this case, i rather pay exorbitant fees to sned my future children to Cambridge Tutors College or Concord in future, rather than being downright cheated by these so called educators. And talking bout profit-making, i think HELP is doing much better at this with their edexcel programme. They live up to their name, and when you say people could have face the same problem as what i've mentioned in the thread ie. lecturer problem, at LEAST their fees are more affordable. Well, all i could say is that i've been blinded and fooled by mass marketing and powerful adverts. Yes, i do sound like a sour grape, but i'm only telling this out to give an idea of what it is for future prospective students. Period.

I agreed. That is why i've mentioned i must have made the wrong choice then. Furthermore, i was so constantly ragged throughout my course during A Levels, that makes it so hard for me to even focus or bond well with my good friends, since some evil wishful rich fags will just out of no where took my bag and placed it into a toilet, or my pencil box into a girl's bag....It's like adults behaving like kindergarten kids. Apart from the lousy lecturer, poor personal attention given for each student due to it being over-crowded and its over emphasized on marketing, Taylor's is nevertheless a good place.

Hmm..gotta agree with you on the last point. When was your grad class in CAL? haha...what my lecturer told me previously was that CIE now elevated their standrd of difficulty already compared to years ago..But, yes, i guess it really depends on class. Maybe i was utterly strucked with bad luck, bcos when i talked to the administtrators, they told me that I was being unlucky, and i should have voiced it out earlier, Im now an ex student already btw.

yeah...i was dead wrong in entering july intake..Most july intake were actually catered to Intl skol students, and yes, they were the bullies, tho mayb thinking that Taylor's is still a place for f**ked up fun and bullying people seems more fun to them than to study. Yeas, i was taken aback at the number of immature students at Taylor's. Probably its due to the intake that i've entered. I might taken for a different ride if i entered Jan Intake. I realised Taylor's reserved their best lecturers for their Jan Intake.

You are right here. Schools like Harvard even have a seperate administrator to take charge of their endownments to get the best out of the huge cash pile they have. In Malaysia, alot of institution like to play around with statistics, trying to lure us students into believing statistics than experience. I think it was a choice gone wrong for me, if I entered the right intake, i might not be facing this problem, so i think it's subjective. How i really wish we could go back to those times whereby every government school here functions like JC in Singapore, offering A Levels ( then HSC) and UM was the top in our region back then. During those times, to enter UM is as hard as entering HKU or Cambridge. True story.

Its my bad luck i suppose, if you enter Pre-med class, the students are obviously much more studious than Pre-engineer. and it is exactly what one of the forummer said, July intake has lots of International school rich kids, and a few guys who quit stpm to go college and also a few scholars.

They wont miss cos STPM started much earlier. Yes, pre-engineer students are in someway more creative i would say, most are guys. You don't expect guys to sit down and nerd the whole day right? LOL... thus the noisy environment, and yea...not all are laid-back, definitely there are hardworking ones too..it depends on your luck of which classess and lecturers are you are getting. If good lecturers, you will enjoy your classes to bits, if not, you suffer.

dude...same thing happens in TCSJ fyi...alot of ppl are chinese educated background.