<p>Yes dude
do apply… u have a good chance</p>
<p>are u from NUS???</p>
<p>Quick question, can I look upon NUS as a safety?</p>
<p>(I have 10 As in O’Levels, 4 As in A’Levels and 1 A in AS Levels, a 2400 in SAT, and will be applying to Econ or DDP in Econ and Engineering.)</p>
<p>Yes
You have perfect grades dude…</p>
<p>heh this is from Nepal. Anybody from Nepal. I heard that for Nepal. Only SAT I and SAT II scores. Do anybody know anything ?</p>
<p>sorry i’ve been neglecting this thread for a while.</p>
<p>sarge: well, i would hesitate making sweeping statements for -all- singaporeans, but i rather disagree with your statement: “I think that Singapore is a pretty good place to grow up in, its safe, clean and has a good (albeit single minded) education system.”
i personally find singapore and even singaporeans rather depressing, but the reasons are myriad and i’m not in the mood to go on about them now. </p>
<p>warmbrownie: why is it you seem to equate course rigor with quality? just cos nus law and medicine make you learn/memorise things like mad doesn’t make them high quality institutions. </p>
<p>qwing: i think for fass, it depends on the major. i can tell you that philo and lit majors are cool, heh. oh, if you do attend nus, i recommend trying for the university scholars program, which, from personal experience, attracts like-minded intellectually questioning and interesting people. plus, you get to do some interesting modules and plan your own independent study modules, where you can choose to do just about anything as long as you can find an academic advisor. you can even do this while on exchange.</p>
<p>oh i’m applying as freshman, so applied for financial aid. not sure how it’ll work out though. have also been quite selective about which lacs i applied. going for ones known to give lots of aid to internationals.</p>
<p>i don’t quite buy warmbrownie’s justification about not being selfish because i don’t think we have any moral obligation when it comes to these things, but i would still advise you to think carefully about doing law here. just make sure you’re really sure i guess. but i heard nus law faculty are quite good and nice people.</p>
<p>i don’t really have a good impression of smu. they seem to stress on fluffy things like, as mentioned by jeremymjr, ‘communications’ which tends to encourage a sort of affectedness. i have smu friends who’ve suddenly developed excruciating accents and think it’s their key to making 50million bucks a year. the illusion of savvy is prevalent.</p>
<p>Hi there, i’m just wondering if NUS accepts transfer students…cos i can’t seem to find anything about it on their website…</p>
<p>I’m currently a freshmen in a NZ university. I didnt have any A level equivelant qualifications, went straight to first year after my O levels…my first semester grades are 3 A+ s (including my major, psychology) and an A-…will i have a shot at NUS, if they accept transfers?</p>
<p>Frenchvanilla- I asked them once about credit transfer and this is what they said:
" All matriculated students will commence in first year at NUS. Any exemptions or waivers for subjects will be given at the discretion of the faculty."
That seems to suggest that they will accept you only as a freshman and only if you fulfil the freshman admission requirements. Best is to email them and ask, they usually respond very quickly.</p>
<p>I have a question too, does NUS have rolling admissions?</p>
<p>i know of transfers between local unis here, maybe it’s possible. grades-wise, it shouldn’t be a problem for you. psychology is part of the faculty of arts and social sciences, which is the easiest to get into. psych is among the most popular of majors though, so it might be hard to get the modules you want. </p>
<p>er, what are rolling admissions?</p>
<p>Rolling admissions are like a first-come, first serve admissions policy; there is no fixed deadline, your application will be evaluated within a few weeks of submission, and applications will continue to be received until all seats are filled. So it’s like the opposite of the system used in most US colleges where there is a deadline and all applications are evaluated at about the same time.</p>
<p>no, nus doesn’t have rolling admissions then. instead, there are multiple deadlines depending on where you are applying from, what qualifications you have etc. it’s a sort of quota system.</p>
<p>I see, thanks.</p>
<p>Btw which LACs are you applying to?</p>
<p>So am i eligible to apply since i don’t meet any of the freshman admission requirement but have done university level work?</p>
<p>quaskx.</p>
<p>i said: 'The course is demanding and there’s quite abit of emphasis on rote memorisation of the law. I believe this is unlike the way law is taught at some schools overseas. That said, the faculty is still highly reputed in the asia pacific region and in most parts elsewhere, so the quality of education you wld receive isn’t questionable".</p>
<p>The quality of education was in reference (and inference) from the fact that the faculty is reputed. I never insinuated any association between rigour and quality, thus, you’re wrong.</p>
<p>Wrt depriving smone of his seat just because you can, Im not going to comment further. Let’s leave it at that. I’m not prepared to launch into a discourse about morality (and the lack thereof) in academic arrogance and ignorance here. If you wish to share your views, I would be more than willing to engage you in a private discussion. PM me for my msn add if you so wish. </p>
<p>Till then, merry christmas to all and to all a good night! </p>
<p><em>~NUS Med Rocks!!!~</em></p>
<p>ok, so do you think there is a positive association between rigour and quality? you did mention before that “intellectual rigour in med fac is excellent”. it seems hardly plausible to me that a rigorous curriculum offers a high quality of education, although maybe this has more to do with my ideas of ‘quality education’. hence, i saw a contradiction when you mentioned law fac’s rote emphasis and it’s reputed quality. i also don’t have too high an opinion of med fac for the same reason. to my knowledge, it involves a lot of mugging in the initial years of the course.</p>
<p>whats wrong with mugging. which med sch doesnt require you to mug?</p>
<p>The Medicine Faculty involves two years of “pure mugging” and is followed by three years of clinicals (which I believe to be the most important part of the medical course). What one defines as quality of education of course depends on whether you want a truly well-rounded education (which means that you take other courses outside medicine). But there is a reason why law and medicine are postgrad courses in the US; they are very specialised and unlikely to be really compatible with a liberal arts approach without wasting curriculum time (that said, these students do benefit from a liberal arts education in their undergraduate years). </p>
<p>I don’t see anything wrong with “mugging” - that’s just part of what a doctor must know. Would you trust a doctor who is very well-read but just can’t remember what medicine should be given to the patient? </p>
<p>I believe there is a correlation - but not necessarily causation - between rigour and quality; NUS is really not that bad in this aspect. A good quality education has to be sufficiently rigorous to be challenging; but it does not mean that a rigorous education is of good quality.</p>
<p>for indian cbse students ,geting into nus needs you to satisy the following
maths ,phy,chem ,comp sc/bio-95%
english-85%</p>
<p>yup, i agree with jeremymjr. this is why i view the US system favourably. liberal education gives a good well-rounded education before moving on to specialised professional education. it’s too early for undergraduate education to be so specialised, imnsho. the med fac probably realises this, but instead of allowing med undergrads to sample courses from elsewhere, it seems to try to provide breadth through a large yet too in-depth selection of med-related subjects, hence “pure mugging”. </p>
<p>anecdotal evidence tells me that most doctors just want to be GPs anyway, and most of what they need to know they find out through the clinicals period. and there’s nothing wrong with looking up references or calling up a trustworthy source when one needs to. most doctors do this, as it’s simply impossible and unnecessary to memorise everything. surely what matters more isn’t the little details one can find out easily, but rather the experience and resources gained to be able to handle the job? </p>
<p>and personally though, i think a fixation on the rigour of an education (and at excelling at it), based on pragmatic justifications, seems like just another symptom of the academic elitism rife in the sg education system. oh well.</p>
<p>The reason why Singapore cannot have a liberal arts system is not the fault of the educational system; it’s due to the demands of society, especially if you look at Singapore’s economic development from a historical perspective.</p>
<p>Most medical schools differentiate between clinicals and pre-clinicals, so it’s unfair to single NUS out for the fact that students only mug during the pre-clinicals - I don’t know any medical school - or any school - in the world which doesn’t require students to mug. From experience though (my sister, cousin and a large number of friends are all doing medicine at NUS), hardly any NUS medicine student starts out aspiring to be a GP; specialisation is what everyone aims for and competition is so stiff precisely for that reason. What the clinical rotation system excels in is therefore not giving the students such a huge breadth of material to cover that they cannot cope, but allowing them to choose the specialisation that they best believe suits them. </p>
<p>And if we look at a downside of the American postgrad program - there is a reason why legal and medical fees are so high in the US. </p>
<p>I disagree that it is too early for undergraduate education to be so specialised - postgrad degrees are still a luxury for many. If our universities take the liberal arts route, we may be effectively precluding many from pursuing so-called professional degrees. I believe that the liberal arts program will provide an excellent education, but it is not the only way to achieve a good education either.</p>