National University of Singapore

[Ahimsauxin]

<p>When is NUS releasing their decision? are they doing rolling admission? And can I view my decision online or will they send a mail to my house? Thx</p>

[kst]

<p>they release decisions by batches so by may 31st tho hopefully this friday. u can check it using the ‘check application status’ site</p>

[kha7577]

<p>Do NUS have a great college experience?</p>

[sp91]

<p>i am planning to apply 2009. is it ok to not have tenth marks because I probably will be in CBSe TWELFTH and US tenth.</p>

[pociteh]

<p>To Ahimsauxin:
If you’re admitted, they will send you a package to your home address. You can also check the decisions online via your ‘Application Status Enquiry’. I am from Indonesia and I have received my package on Monday, 21st May.</p>

<p>Has anyone got their packages too? I get in to Computer Engineering in NUS’ School of Computing.</p>

[kst]

<p>is there anyone out there who has not yet received any news abt their application from nus?</p>

[kha7577]

<p>Has anyone applied here to NUS using SAT II math level 2 and not level 1?</p>

<p>can I still get in without level 2 only level1?</p>

[bigb]

<p>hey lsn i ve got into EMbry Riddle university and NUS, im looking for aeronautical engineering for UG, NUS offers it under the mech scheme. i really am confused as to where to join. im not a very US person if u know wat i mean. as in i prefer to live in an asian society, near home - UAE. plus i treasure cricket and football to a certain extent. so… - guys please help out</p>

[spencer11111]

<p>

@D.T.

This thread is amusing.</p>

<p>HAHAHA YOU’RE BETTER OFF IN NUS/NTU IF YOU CAN’T GET INTO HYPMS, OR CAMBRIDGE/OXFORD!!! BWAHAHAHAHA</p>

<p>Oh man, oh man, alrighty guys…</p>

<p>NUS Medicine is a solid school. Seriously, the students and the professors distinguish themselves abroad, be it in international competitions, tenure or the like. But uh, as for social life, it will be there, albeit on a pretty limited scale. I have tons of friends in NUS Med and well they STUDY AND MUG VERY HARD. And I’ve known ppl (like Army scholars) who, at the time of this posting, have repeated years already (this is a disaster if they were aspiring to be specialists) If you like that, as many do, by all means apply. But it’s all about the fit.</p>

<p>Ok, now for Law, I don’t know (can anyone substantiate this?) but it appears that the Law school has declined a little. The entry requirements are no longer as stringent (3 As minimum now, in the past, 4 As was like the bare minimum) and as for the rest, I don’t know. I’m clueless when it comes to Law, although I have friends there as well, I’ve never asked them about uh…these sensitive issues.</p>

<p>For FASS, one word: YUCKS. The school itself is not just made up of course offerings, internships, possiblity of global competitions, exceptional students which are exceptions, and the like. The standard is just not there. Someone whom I did National Service with was complaining bitterly about the abysmal entry requirements of NUS FASS. Apparently, this guy who had er CCDO from A levels got in. And well, as an English professor from NUS pointed out, he’s kind of gotten tired of teaching hordes who aren’t really interested in doing more than the bare minimum, and uh, he mentioned that many are those who got in FASS with grades in the region of CCCC. This is not where NUS FASS wants to go if it genuinely wants to better itself.</p>

<p>But does the fault lie with NUS? Absolutely not. They need students, they need diversity, and they need recognition. The problem I have is with the paper chase in Singapore, as so many in this thread rightly pointed out. The polytechnics in Singapore offer awesome courses now, I mean, there’s nursing, chemical pharmacy, robotics and GOSH SO MANY course offerings, and the standard of students there is rising because more are recognizing that the relic of the A level system just doesn’t work in preparing ppl for the job market anymore. The poly’s have changed and adapted their educational offerings in response to changing conditions, and well the JC (Junior College) have lagged behind somewhat. But now, it’s also good that they are offering IB, US Diplomas, and other augmentations to the A Level. I think for many ppl, a polytechnic diploma will do wonders for them instead of trying desperately to get a degree for the sake of getting it. My cousin got a Econ degree from NUS and she couldn’t find a job after that for almost 1 year. Employers rather see honors from highly regarded and admittedly, highly recognized (in the objective sense, please) UK (LSE, UCL, OX, CAM, Warwick) or US (Michigan, Berkeley, HYPMS, CMU, U Penn, and other Ivies) or China (Bei Da, Nan Da etc) universities.</p>

<p>Am I blaming the students? Am I looking down on them? No. I just think they’d be happier and a lot more successful elsewhere. Heck, I think that many can become more successful than me in the future! But NUS is an academic institution. Most in Singapore have already forgotten that. The really victimized people of this dash for paper are the myriad of really good students who are really serious about getting a liberal arts education in NUS (and the unfortunate ones who just couldn’t get a government scholarship to go overseas) but arrive at campus to see a largely academic disinterested student body who prefer to go to Cafe Del Mar or Zouk rather than spend time discussing more about their major. The environment counts, and it is a fact that the school is largely a function of its students (think: Harvard, think: Oxford, heck think: RJC), even if the teachers and professors are at times downright disappointing.</p>

<p>The computer science and the engineering schools are ok. Nothing more to say (sorry OP)</p>

<p>Life in NUS, to answer bigb, really depends on which school you go to. Chances are, if you go to FASS, you’ll party and do sports a lot more. If you go to Medicine, you’ll study like mad all year. If you go to Law, you’ll have loads of free time when they are no exams, but uh, prepare to exorcise exercise, hangin’ out, beach, computer games, whatever, because the only things you’ll be “hanging” with are mountains of law books. Again, Engin and Computer Science - I’m not aware. Great if someone from Engin or CS could comment.</p>

<p>As for prestige, please don’t believe the Times Higher Education Supplement.
They base their rankings on international diversity (no doubt augmented by very good students from places like India coming over) and China and other places. This methodology is questionable at best. And as for how frequently professors publish papers, it is a reflection of the graduate school most of the time and not the quality of teaching. And library volumes as a criteria? Give me a break.</p>

<p>So, if you want to go to NUS, by all means go ahead, if you think it fits you well. But don’t count on its supposed prestige, or its vaunted…rankings (or is it ranking?), or its ludicrous publicity stunts like the NUS Business School advert (Singaporeans you’ll know what I mean…NUS Biz OVER WHARTON!!! BWAHAHAHAHA).</p>

<p>Hopefully I’ve provided some help.</p>

<p>P.S. Kudos to those who know the LACs!!! =)

NUS medicine and Law attracts some of the best student in Singapore, so I believe that it must not be too bad (cannot comment really because I am not a student there).</p>

<p>I guess NUS CS and Engg are fine because they are somewhere along the middle road – moderately popular with students.</p>

<p>Pure sciences at NUS — don’t go!!! They are crap!</p>

<p>The polys in Singapore are getting really good now. IMO they actually value-add more to the students than the JC system does.</p>

<p>As for THES:

1. The international diversity (student and faculty) is only 5% each, making it 10% overall. It is just a small weighage. It helps to have network with students all around the world and to have more exposure to different culture so as not to be too insular
2. citation count is important because it helps to study under the scholars that are making break-though advances in their fields
3. Library volume IS NOT used in THES but in Newsweek. And Newsweek is confirm crap… THES is quite good IMO.</p>

<p>Lastly for Singapore: NUS is fine if the cost of going to the US is a consideration, although US would definitely be better.</p>

<p>Most important: STAY AWAY FROM SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY. IT IS RUBBISH!!!</p>

[sJ3]

<p>OK so any srilankans here going to NUS this year??</p>

[bigb]

<p>ok sj3, i ve started a facebook thread, NUS 2011, u can add me on face book - Hope u have joined facebook ofc. yea if u cud, gimme ur email id as well , so we can discuss stuff, btw are u a freshman:P - if u arent then theres no point:P:P:P???</p>

[wasup]

<p>@ sJ3
yo boy
haha
guess who’s back hehe…cheers</p>

[sJ3]

<p>hahaha… wasup!. ur still here!!</p>

[wasup]

<p>haha…well ur here too eh! </p>

<p>back to the old days hahahaha…</p>

[issacnewton]

<p>Welcome back both of ya!..:p…</p>

[vinothini]

<p>hey , i’m an indian cbse student hoping to get into nus business school.
My grade 10 result is 90.6% . Im yet to give my sat. What in your opinion is a decent score i should obtain. btw my toefl score is 107/120. Do i have to give SAT II ? Pleaaaaaaase help</p>

[srrinath]

<p>to be honest with all of you (i’m speaking as someone who’s GUARENTEED admission to NUS), i’m not really sure if NUS can be branded the college of your dreams. it’s a decent school with decent faculty but i don’t get the feeling i expect out of a dream school everytime i’m there. (i’m studying at a high school affiliated with NUS so i’m there v. often). the libraries don’t give me the ideal atmosphere i need for studying, and the campus has a very open, unenclosed feel.</p>

<p>that having been said, i speak from the perspective of someone who’s spent years around this campus, so i may have a different POV due to being accustomed to it. so if you’re willing to apply to NUS go ahead, but i’ve just given you my personal opinions.</p>

[Dudboi]

<p>NUS is for people who have no dreams, desires and aspirations. It may be ranked 19th, but the kind of people that they produce are. Bleah.</p>

<p>It’s not somewhere to live your life. But if all you want is a stable job in Singapore until you die, by all means.</p>

[serf]

<p>i had a place in nus law, which i withdrew some weeks ago.</p>

<p>due to my somewhat unusual educational background, i have friends who are currently maintaining perfect GPAs at MIT as well as friends who flunked out of SIM, or for that matter, ITEs. i find it somewhat ironic that this board (collegeconfidential) has often been derided by posters for being overly narrow-minded and elitist… incidentally values which singaporeans are very well-known for.</p>

<p>i really find unsettling the posts (i.e. the two above, and numerous in earlier pages) taking jibes at nus or any of the other 2 comprehensive local universities, especially unsolicited, because they betray a lack of sympathy for the individual circumstances for others- their ideas of a “dream college”, equally valid, may result from a completely different weightage of factors from you, or as possibly, the notion of attending a four-year university might be a dream unto itself.</p>

<p>now for a more specific defense of nus: it’s an INCREDIBLY great bargain. it has a very strong institutional reputation; overrated but still substantial. it has tradition. it is academically very rigorous (yes). it has, due to size and location, a wider range of activities than most.</p>

<p>it also has a history of attracting better students. yes, most students on government scholarship attend top universities overseas, but you’d be surprised how often foreign degrees (wherever its from) are glossed over and holders are categorised as those who couldn’t be admitted locally. pass this off as ignorance by ‘heartlanders’, but the facts are that a degree from NUS (or NTU) is still regarded as extremely solid, if unflashy, by most</p>

[cuRRent]

<p>It’s cheap. In more ways that one. </p>

<p>And you have got people like Thio in the faculty. I mean- w*f~</p>