<p>Yeah the are held in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangrole. See the site for details.</p>
<p>thanks guys :)</p>
<p>Quote:
“Well i got a 93% in 10th boards but in 12th so far the percentage has been bad(close to 80), as my school generally gives low marks…Although i expect a close to 95 in boards.
Do u think i can qualify for NTU written test?? Also chances at NUS??”</p>
<p>BTW i got a perfecto in my SAT II’s(Maths L2, Chem, Phy) hallelujah!!!</p>
<p>Admission criterion for NUS is objective, if you have 95+ you would be in.
93% is all right for NTU’s exam.
I have heard that SAT II’s help a lot but it would be best to ask someone who’s in NUS.</p>
<p>Hi guys… i was surprised theres an NUS thread on CC. Well im an ISCE student from India, recieved my 12th percentage. Its exactly 92. 10th wasnt so good… 87. SAT I - 2000/2400.</p>
<p>So? Any comments on my acceptance possibilities? Or any comments at all?</p>
<p>please speak@!</p>
<p>it all depends on the applicant pool that is applying to NUS. Your 12th scores are good enough to be a stiff competitor, but they cannot guarantee u admission as top class students from all around the world are going to try for admission.</p>
<p>Hope for the best and maybe u will end up where many dream of entering.</p>
<p>I am an American student deciding to apply for undergrad in the yoo lin school of medicine, I just wanted to know how competitive is it for a student with a GPA of 3.85 (unweighted), 2040 sat, 790(chem), 740(math 2c), 740(bio) sat 2 tests. and how in the world do i apply the application is so complicated. Thanks</p>
<p>hey abhishiv, hypothetically if u were given an admission to BITS,any of the NITs, NUS or NTU, what would be your preference order for the universitlies</p>
<p>also does SATIIs help in getting into NUS,or NTU</p>
<p>1)NUS without doubt.
2)NTU
3)Bits
4)NITs</p>
<p>Indignation, any school which is a part of NUS is going to be highly competitive</p>
<p>for example, if MIT had a janitorial programme to make future janitors it is going to be highly competitive. </p>
<p>I cant comment much about the grades as i have no idea/clue on how good/bad the scores are. </p>
<p>The admission process is quite simple, one of the most simple if i may say so.
Send them ur SAT I/II scores(optional) and your final examination scores. And most importantly pay the admission processing fee. </p>
<p>After that hope for the best - the above mentioned process is for engineering, i am not sure about what different procedures are required for medical (if it is different). </p>
<p>Best of luck to all who apply.</p>
<p>Hi guys, I’m from NUS but I’m Singaporean so I guess it’s probably a lot easier to get in. In fact, I had no idea NUS was so hard to get in for foreigners! But that’s what I gather, from reading your posts. </p>
<p>For Indignation, School of Medicine is definitely hard to get, whether you’re local or not, but I’ve heard they’re opening up more places now because there’s been a lack of doctors here. I tried once myself, got shortlisted for the interviews and timed essay, but didn’t get in. I think close to 2000 people apply for 230 places. The important part is really the interviews though. You need to show your passion and that you really want to get in. Good luck!</p>
<p>For you Indian engineering students, you’re really just competing among yourselves. I know for a fact that the locals here can’t hold a candle to the foreigners who get in. And you guys make up more than half the places for engineering here, which is NUS’s biggest faculty. From this, it probably means that the foreign application pool is really huge, hence the selectivity. </p>
<p>But what I find strange is that, we Singaporeans are really skeptical of rankings placing NUS so highly. It’s hard to see how NUS is better than so many of the top schools in the world and coupled with the fact that rankings are really subjective especially when it comes to universities, makes many of us think it’s some big politically correct exercise in increasing representation among international non-western universities. In fact, most of top students here want to get out of Singapore to avoid having to go to NUS! I myself am applying for several US universities this year to transfer out to. So I’m not sure if rankings is the best way to choose a university if you don’t know much else about it. </p>
<p>Still, it’s probably the fact that we get so many competitive foreign applicants that’s actually boosting our rankings. A sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, you might say. And that we’ve been consistently getting high numbers of applicants might also mean that the foreign students here give lots of positive feedback to say they like NUS a lot. -shrug-</p>
<p>Well anyway, if you have any questions about NUS, I just might be able to answer.</p>
<p>Oh I just realised Indignation was asking for chances. Well many who apply to NUS Medicine also apply to many of the top US universities and their scores are generally 2250+ for SAT I and 780-800 for SAT IIs (because A levels are actually harder than SAT IIs). Not sure how to judge American GPAs though, we don’t have any such thing here. But this might not mean it’s that hard to get in though because I don’t know if there’s a quota reserved for foreign applicants to Medicine. And nothing to lose from trying anyway. It’s still passion for the medical profession that’s the determining factor once you get shortlisted.</p>
<p>Wow…thats good…Best of ur hardwork for ur transfer!!!</p>
<p>Thanks guys for all the feedback. I am going to apply and see what happens, maybe just maybe I might get in.</p>
<p>oh well. the grass is always greener on the other side. imo, there’s nothing terribly wrong with NUS. i have the most amount of respect for its law and medical schools… it’s the whole “i yearn for the overseas experience and evedrybody who’s everybody is going to top schools overseas anw so i’ll go too” mentality that has denigrated the university in the minds of some. </p>
<p>anyway, indignation, quaskx is about right wrt having the passion to be a physician. if you havent got it, then don’t bother (although i hope you do!). alot of med wannabes waste the interviewers’ time with their cookie-cutter responses and blind ignorance. </p>
<p>“to be splattered with the pus, blood and vomitus of the sick is to be badged with the highest office” - selzer.</p>
<p>well that’s true in the sense that the university and its faculty are alright generally, but it’s the people i guess. particularly in my case, being in the faculty of arts and social sciences, which is arguably the easiest to get in, most of the students are in just to keep up with the paper chase and that makes for a somewhat depressing class experience. i want to get in a liberal arts college not just for the high quality education they can offer, but also for the experience of being in environment among similarly curious minds without which the institution can hardly nurture a spirit of critical inquiry.</p>
<p>hey quaskx, as you’re in the faculty of arts and social sciences, can you tell me if the economics department of NUS is good? Also tell me if good students (Singaporean or foreign, I don’t really care) enroll for economics, since I would hate to stand out in the class.</p>
<p>the thing is i have two paths to choose from, either i can goto an engineering college in India, or i can goto NUS or NTU,
US is not an option for me, hence when i weigh my options and compare NUS with an Indian university, NUS is much much better. Yes the world rankings could easily be a faulty one, instead of NUS being ranked 9th in the world, it could easily be the 19th, but still thats a better option for me. And i think this is the same reason why there is a lot of competition among us indians to get into NUS.</p>
<p>agreed quaskx. fellow singaporean here.</p>
<p>i had a place in fass too; dropped it cos i refused to acknowledge and confirm my spot.</p>
<p>indignation, i dont know what’s the situation with u–i’m not judging u–but honestly, if u’re american, then pls, make gd use of ur education system; what’s wrong with american higher-ed institutes? trust me on this, the intellectual experience in sg isnt what it is cracked up to be. yes, i know there are certainly cliques of raging intellectualism in nus (particularly so in fass, so i’ve been told), but they are the minority. most are in there because sg is a country obsessed with one-upmanship. paper qualifications are used to judge a man’s worth here. children grow up thking “either med or law”. the arts and social sciences are frowned upon here; “where’s the money?” is an oft-heard refrain. the way i see it, nothing beats the experience in america. why jump straight to med? do ur pre-med, experience other fields, then move on to med sch.</p>
<p>faculty of arts and social sciences i think</p>