Application for NUS/NTU Medicine 2020/2021

[peterfamily]

But still small numbers and not because of low income family able to get NUS /NTU

Scholarship to study medicine for free. Anyone knows what scholarship ?

[Desmond Tang]

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Desmond Tang\" post_id=\"1977230\" time=\"1590126353\" user_id=\"185268:[quote=\"Desmond Tang\" post_id=1977230 time=1590126353 user_id=185268]NTU is magnanimous. While awaiting for the Medicine waitlist outcome, they have welcomed my son to take up Biological Sciences & BioBusiness and has offered him a Nanyang Scholarship too. I thanks NTU for their nobility and generosity. It's indeed a great privilege to study at this wonderful university.

Hi, Desmond,

Congratulation to you son. For the Nanyang scholarship, did you son apply for it?

BTW, did you son get the Duke-NUS pathway offer?

All the best.[/quote]

Hi! fang1221,

Thank you! My son only done the acceptance to study NTU SBS but the Duke-NUS medicine pathway will only be kicked in at a later stage and to be assessed by Duke-NUS.

During the initiate admission application, they are to indicate their interest whether to be considered for a scholarship. If shortlisted, they will go for an interview before being offered. You will be notified of the offering by late May-early June. It coincide pretty close to the course being offered.

NTU-Duke-NUS Medicine Pathway is not a through train degrees pathway. NTU SBS applicants must indicate their interest for Duke-NUS Medicine Pathway during Matriculation Submission. Only shortlisted applicants by Duke-NUS will have to attend an interview. If successful they will then be given a conditional admission offer. They will still be assessed for their academic performances at NTU SBS at every stages to be qualified for an MD programme at Duke-NUS.

NTU SBS and Duke-NUS are independent of each other. The selection of potential applicants for the MD course programme is done by Duke-NUS.

[ScissorPaperStone]

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Hi! Susme,

Congratulations!

YLL and MAS (PSC) Scholarships are two different awards given under their conditions for you to pursue a specific course of your preference. Have you gone through the terms and conditions of the offering? Read them carefully.

NUS scholarship is given to freshmen for pursuing medicine at YLLSoM and is bond free.

Whereas MAS scholarship is awarded by Public Service Commission. You will be required to work for MAS for six years if you study overseas and four years if you study locally. You are free to take up any course of study at any reputable university, with the exception of Medicine, Dentistry and Architecture. It is not intended for medicine study.

What is this NUS YLL scholarship that is bond free? YLL LKC offers come with a 5 years Service Agreements for all Singaporeans.[/quote]

You are correct, Scholarship by YLLSoM has a bond attached. Only NUS Global Merit Scholarship and NUS Merit Scholarship offered have no bond attached. Sorry, my mistaken views.[/quote]I won't call the NUS YLL a scholarship. Rather it is service agreements for all medical and dentistry students enrolled in YLL, LCK and Duke.

[Desmond Tang]

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But still small numbers and not because of low income family able to get NUS /NTU
Scholarship to study medicine for free. Anyone knows what scholarship ?

Scholarship is a prestigious award and only given to outstanding students. They have limited copies to be given out, thus the uniqueness and honour. Each university has different selection criteria and cannot be compared against one another.

The important thing is to look at is the eligibility criteria (the reasons why the award is given) for each award and decide if you are eligible. If you believe that all scholarships are given for academic merit and all bursaries for financial need, you could be missing out on opportunities that do not fit that criteria.

However, in order to give you a better idea about the different types of awards, here is our quick guide.

Scholarships cover the widest range of awards. They can be given for all sorts of reasons and by many different types of organisations. Some of the reasons are as follows:

Academic merit
Financial need
Sporting achievement
Musical talent
Personal circumstances – where you live, what your parents do, your extra-curricular activities/interests, your career aspirations

A company wants to promote themselves to students – often all these scholarships will require you to do is submit and essay on a subject related to their business.

A bursary or grant is a means of non-repayable monetary support designed to assist students who meet specific financial eligibility criteria. Thus besides a scholarship there are other financial aids that the universities are providing and assisting students who need helps.

[peterfamily]

Hi Desmond and ScissorPaperStone,

Thank you for your kind efforts to give me such detailed information.

[Seya]

For info.

Found Financial Aid Brochure from NUS Website for Medical School Students. the link:
http://nusmedicine.nus.edu.sg/images/resources/content/media/corporate/brochures/FinancialBrochureAY2019_Final.pdf
There are hundreds of Students received Aid. Not sure how to apply it for the fresh students.
inside Brochure:
a) Prospective students can apply for financial
assistance online at http://www.nus.edu.sg/
oam/financial-aid/application by 31 May 2019,
to be considered for NUS Financial Aid Schemes
and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Financial
Assistance.
b) Prospective male students who are enrolling
after national service can send an email to
[email protected] by 31 May 2019
to be considered for Yong Loo Lin School
of Medicine Financial Assistance.

The date is stated by 31-May 2019 which is last year.

[peterfamily]

Hi Seya,

The above information looks very relevant and helpful !
Thanks !

[Desmond Tang]

Interesting read - facts to take notes for those who intend to apply for NUS/NTU Medicine after their \"A Level\", IB or Polytechnic results. Your academic results play the first part of the shortlist process and followed by the rest of your portfolios and testimonials. You have to obtain extremely good academic results to apply to study Medicine.


As I said this year 2020, you could see diversification taking place at NUS Medicine selection process and many very good candidates were not selected even after the interviews. Diversification has it pros and cons, thus many good candidates from top JC's have been overtaken by many neighbouring JC's in the selections.

Here tells you why : -
NUS YLLSoM https://www.edupoll.org/content/view/477/184/

NTU LKCSoM https://www.edupoll.org/content/view/492/184/

[HVR]

I feel that the medicine landscape has changed much. Those boomer doctors were having it good. A normal medical officer in those time can buy landed property and what’s not. However, medicine is now very competitive and unless ones progress to specialist/Asst Con/Con. Passion, interest, nobleness aside, the salary doesn’t seem commensurate with the cost of education notwithstanding the subsidies and the impending gruelling workload/hours awaiting the fresh grads.


I am alarmed to learn that the salary of a houseman/woman has been around 3.5k for the past 10 years! In 10 years time [5 yrs study plus 5 yrs govt bond], by then either you manage to crack the specialist path [not easy at all, with more study/training/exam] or become a GP. If not, ones have to remain a MO in the hospitals with max pay of around 8-10k. A typical GP income is around 15-17k per month now but with govt push for primary care, more doctors will become GP and with greater supply, future GPs may have to accept lower pay or work longer hours to make up for it.

[HVR]

Desmond Tang\" post_id=\"1977230\" time=\"1590126353\" user_id=\"185268:[quote=\"Desmond Tang\" post_id=1977230 time=1590126353 user_id=185268]
NTU is magnanimous. While awaiting for the Medicine waitlist outcome, they have welcomed my son to take up Biological Sciences & BioBusiness and has offered him a Nanyang Scholarship too. I thanks NTU for their nobility and generosity. It's indeed a great privilege to study at this wonderful university.[/quote]

Feedback from my daughter's circle of friends. At least 5-6 of them with double offers have chosen YLL, about 2 prefer LKC. Good chance that you son will be offered if high up on the LKC waitlist. All the best!