NUS / NTU medicine application 2018/2019

[TTC]

tehsusu:

So what has he been offered 2nd choice option instead medicine?

Same here with 90 UAS.

He was offered DD in CS/Biz. How about yours? Got offered med?

[TTC]

jtoh:

TTC:

No offer from NUS yet. SMU Law and NTU DD offered 2 months ago. NUS is very slow...

Which is your child's preferred choice? She's applied for Medicine, Law and Biz/Computing from the three unis.

Will take either the Law or DD uni scholarship. 11 years is a very long time. The $550K govt bond with 10% p.a interest worries us as we are not a rich family. My nephew broke PSC bond and what happened thereafter is for one to imagine.

[jtoh]

TTC:

jtoh:

[quote=\"TTC\"]No offer from NUS yet. SMU Law and NTU DD offered 2 months ago. NUS is very slow...

Which is your child's preferred choice? She's applied for Medicine, Law and Biz/Computing from the three unis.

Will take either the Law or DD uni scholarship. 11 years is a very long time. The $550K govt bond with 10% p.a interest worries us as we are not a rich family. My nephew broke PSC bond and what happened thereafter is for one to imagine.[/quote]Your dc was offered medicine as well? If he isn't sure that medicine is what he is passionate about, better not to take up even if offered.

[PiggyLalala]

petitemum:

T compare YLL and LKC, in the case of ds 2 years back, we considered the following:

1. fees and bursaries- LKC is way more expensive than YLL but it provides more bursaries than YLL.
2.distance- YLL is nearer and more convenient.
3. hostel- LKC students are encouraged to stay in the hostel.
4.teaching style-YLL adopts traditional lectures and tutorial style while LKC adopts team based learning.
5.male and female ratio: yes, we actually considered this. YLL has more girls while LKC has many more boys.
6. track record- no doubt YLL has a long history, but the Imperial College London has a long history too and has a worldwide reputation. LKC MBBS cert would bear both NTU and Imperial logo, if it matters.
7.professors- LKC has strong team support from London. There are professors from India too.

Thank you for the comparison. I believe many would choose YLL over LKC because of the difference in tuition fee and proximity....NTU is very very far.....

Btw....does anyone have any idea why LKC charges a few K more than YLL each year..... newer facilities? smaller cohort? why? just wondering since it will be the same MBBS in the end...

[teresakoh]

Hi all,

May I know if any child has yet received any news from NUS Med and Dentistry? & their application is still under processing? What are the chances of getting accepted? Does processing means under waitlist?

[RyeRyeRye]

teresakoh:

Hi all,

May I know if any child has yet received any news from NUS Med and Dentistry? & their application is still under processing? What are the chances of getting accepted? Does processing means under waitlist?

Think all offers were already sent to successful applicants last wed and thursday. Highly likely your application was sent to the next faculty for consideration,if any.

[ycpang]

Ok just trying to make some assumptions:


NTU has 138 vacancies. Assuming 50% of them have double offers from both NTU and NUS = 70.

Therefore there will be 70 slots available for those on waitlist. Sounds logical?

[Samuel002]

ycpang:

Ok just trying to make some assumptions:


NTU has 138 vacancies. Assuming 50% of them have double offers from both NTU and NUS = 70.

Therefore there will be 70 slots available for those on waitlist. Sounds logical?

So roughly how many people are on the waitlist?

[jtoh]

PiggyLalala:

Thank you for the comparison. I believe many would choose YLL over LKC because of the difference in tuition fee and proximity....NTU is very very far.....

Btw....does anyone have any idea why LKC charges a few K more than YLL each year..... newer facilities? smaller cohort? why? just wondering since it will be the same MBBS in the end...

In addition to smaller cohort and funding for new facilites, prob also because of the compulsory iPad on which lessons are conducted?

[ycpang]

Samuel002:

ycpang:

Ok just trying to make some assumptions:


NTU has 138 vacancies. Assuming 50% of them have double offers from both NTU and NUS = 70.

Therefore there will be 70 slots available for those on waitlist. Sounds logical?

Purely statistic:
NUS selects 322 out of 980. Chances is 33%
NTU selects 138 out of 398. Chances is 34%
Both schools combined: 460 out of 980 ( very likely those 398 applied for NTU also applied for NUS). So chances is 47% if the student applied for both schools.
Round 1 - about 33% got offered based on individual school. There is a balance of 14% slots to be filled in round 2.
14% out of 460 = 65 slots available on waitlist. This is close to 70 slots as per my earlier estimation. In fact, if dentistry is included ( since those who applied dentistry are likely to apply to med as well), the chances of one gets into one of the three faculties is about 50%.