School Of The Arts, Singapore

[tired_mum]

Carpe diem:

tired_mum:

Hi

Has everyone who applied to SOTA received their acceptance letter? A friend of mine is very anxious as her daughter has not received hers while her peers have received theirs. Could it be a rejection in this case? Or are the letters sent out in batches? She applied for visual arts.
Would appreciate if someone could comment.
Thank you

My dd has friends who have not received their letter yet. It could be a SingPost issue as sota said letters have been sent out. Good luck.

Hi Carpe Diem
Thanks for the reply. BTW does SOTA inform parents via letter if the child is rejected? Or do parents assume that if they did not receive an acceptance letter, it means that her child is rejected. We have been calling SOTA but all lines are busy and mailbox is full.

[Carpe diem]

tired_mum:

Carpe diem:

[quote=\"tired_mum\"]Hi

Has everyone who applied to SOTA received their acceptance letter? A friend of mine is very anxious as her daughter has not received hers while her peers have received theirs. Could it be a rejection in this case? Or are the letters sent out in batches? She applied for visual arts.
Would appreciate if someone could comment.
Thank you

My dd has friends who have not received their letter yet. It could be a SingPost issue as sota said letters have been sent out. Good luck.

Hi Carpe Diem
Thanks for the reply. BTW does SOTA inform parents via letter if the child is rejected? Or do parents assume that if they did not receive an acceptance letter, it means that her child is rejected. We have been calling SOTA but all lines are busy and mailbox is full.[/quote]Yes or no, there will be a letter.

[Pixie28]

My girl said that on the day of her audition which was the second day, the most number of applicants was from dance with the least being theatre.


Carpe diem, your dd must have a really good voice. Does she always sing at home? It's an amazing feat as there's only a handful of voice students as dasalo mentioned congrats!

[Carpe diem]

Tired_mum, the rejection or acceptance letter are both single page so don’t assume a thin letter means rejection.

[Carpe diem]

Pixie28:

My girl said that on the day of her audition which was the second day, the most number of applicants was from dance with the least being theatre.


Carpe diem, your dd must have a really good voice. Does she always sing at home? It's an amazing feat as there's only a handful of voice students as dasalo mentioned congrats!

Thanks. Honestly we didn't expect the CO for Music.

[Carpe diem]

Pixie28:

My girl said that on the day of her audition which was the second day, the most number of applicants was from dance with the least being theatre.


Carpe diem, your dd must have a really good voice. Does she always sing at home? It's an amazing feat as there's only a handful of voice students as dasalo mentioned congrats!

Speaking of theatre, I heard a performing arts school had many kids successfully getting CO for theatre.

[Desperate Mom]

Hi Dasalo,


Thank you so much for helping out with my questions, they are really helpful. And also thanks to all the parents in this forum for sharing so much.

Somehow, my gal has classmates and friends who are keen in pursuing their education with SOTA. Some have received the CO and only a couple of them have not. One of her classmate applied for both VA and Voice, she has gotten the CO for Voice but not VA two days ago. Yesterday, this classmate of hers received another letter informing that she will also be given a CO for VA. I thought the SOTA will only offer one art form and not both?

Most of her friends are celebrating and excited about the acceptance. My gal was anxious about the outcome, and we are wondering why it is taking so long. I do not want the waiting to affect her preparation of the prelim next week.

The reason that I am asking nos of kids admitted for voice or piano out of the 20-30 kids from music, hoping to understand her chance. So far, I have already heard that there are 4-5 students got in for voice. So I wonder will she stand any chances in relative comparison even though there isn’t a quota. I have not heard of anyone got in bec of piano, and I wonder whether the criteria for piano are tougher?

As for the question on competitions, there are saying that the kids specializing in SOTA for piano are not so competitive in national competitions bec they lacks details and focus as they are just doing far too many things at the same time.

I was also told by one of my gal’s fren who is very strong in her study (aim to be a top scholar and wanted to get her picture take for Brand’s Essence of Chicken) mentioned that if she got into SOTA, she can be exempted from theory papers bec she has passed them.

[JRLam]

Pixie28:

My girl said that on the day of her audition which was the second day, the most number of applicants was from dance with the least being theatre.


Carpe diem, your dd must have a really good voice. Does she always sing at home? It's an amazing feat as there's only a handful of voice students as dasalo mentioned congrats!

Hi Pixie 28. Sorry to harp on this again. Can u ask your dd if she can agar-agar the number of applicants in her group on her audition day? Do you know how many gps were there everyday and how many days of audition were there? Just trying to hv a rough gauge of successful rate. Given that this is the year of dragon, subsequent yrs maybe easier, hahaha

Thanks!

[Carpe diem]

Desperate Mom:

Hi Dasalo,


Thank you so much for helping out with my questions, they are really helpful. And also thanks to all the parents in this forum for sharing so much.

Somehow, my gal has classmates and friends who are keen in pursuing their education with SOTA. Some have received the CO and only a couple of them have not. One of her classmate applied for both VA and Voice, she has gotten the CO for Voice but not VA two days ago. Yesterday, this classmate of hers received another letter informing that she will also be given a CO for VA. I thought the SOTA will only offer one art form and not both.

I heard that, if anyone is successful in their application to more than one art form, SOTA will only give one CO. This makes sense as it would not waste multiple CO to the same person and deprive others of a place.

[dasalo]

Mrs Cheng:

Thanks for all the replies. I guess I'm worrying too much. It has been a struggle for my son for the past few years and I want him to be able to enjoy his secondary years. The CO was unexpected but nevertheless a happy problem. He likes the school and in fact he said he enjoyed the TA. Anyway, we have up till Oct to decide.

Mrs Cheng, you mentioned it has been a struggle for your son for the past few years in terms of? He does not like to study or he finds school boring? He has a CO in which art form? Sounds like a VA student to me but I may be wrong.

I know of a student who was also struggling for 2 yrs in the mainstream school. Than he finally made the switch in yr 3 but he had to repeat yr2 for fear of not being able to catch with the IB syllabus and now he excels in his studies and is one of the AGP (artistically gifted programme) students. So going to SOTA with the burning passion for their art form may not be a bad idea. Fyi, this student's PSLE score is just average.