2010 DSA(Direct School Admission)

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

That is an impressive percentage of students getting DSA. Do you know if they got in through Academic or Sport DSA? Also, which school would this be? Thanks.

only a handful got in via sports dsa, the great majority are based on academic

according to the sec schools, those who get in via sports dsa must be among the top 3 nationwide for the particular sports

[clover18]

pls enilghten me…if the child gets through via academic, does it mean must be in GEP? what is the chance of a mainstream kid being sucessful via dsa on academic criteria…is there some guideline eg getting band 1 for all subjects or something?

[verykiasu2010]

clover18:

pls enilghten me....if the child gets through via academic, does it mean must be in GEP? what is the chance of a mainstream kid being sucessful via dsa on academic criteria....is there some guideline eg getting band 1 for all subjects or something?

last year at the RI open house, for example, the principal said something like all subjects must be consistently close to 90s and above for P4 to P6.

and if you win some math olympiad, FPSP, etc that will help too. not necessary must be from GEP

for that school that got 33% of their cohort offerred via DSA, which is about 160 students, only about 120 are GEP, assuming all GEPpers got in via DSA - that means at least 40 ~50 are from mainstream got offered via DSA - and there could be all 40 ~50 of them are national sportsman at P6

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

only a handful got in via sports dsa, the great majority are based on academic


according to the sec schools, those who get in via sports dsa must be among the top 3 nationwide for the particular sports

This must be a GEP school then, for the majority to have gotten in via DSA academic?

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

This must be a GEP school then, for the majority to have gotten in via DSA academic?

I understand it is one of the largest GEP school around

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

I understand it is one of the largest GEP school around

Thanks. I can guess which school this is already. My friend's son was from the school and he was one of those who got in via DSA Sports. And a few of his friends got in via Academics.

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

Thanks. I can guess which school this is already. My friend's son was from the school and he was one of those who got in via DSA Sports. And a few of his friends got in via Academics.

those friends who got in via academic are not from GEP right ?

[clover18]

i hope not too…otherwise the mainstream kids will have a slim chance; GE kids always have an advantage

[jtoh]

verykiasu2010:

those friends who got in via academic are not from GEP right ?

I know of at least one who's non-GEP. Not sure about the rest.

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

I know of at least one who's non-GEP. Not sure about the rest.

well, for the school that I referred to above, the have quite a number non-GEPpers got in via DSA academic (NJC, Hwa Chong, RI, RGS, NYGH, NUSHS, DHS etc)