DSA 2012
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GoodDad:
Thank you. My DS is not GEP student and his math teacher pointed out, for smops top 200, more than 60% are GEP students.papertree:
Anyone can share some experience with HCI DSA? My DS got smops gold award, and his SA1 overall is well above 80% (math is 95), however according to his tution teacher, it's not good enough to DSA to HCI. And we have already submitted the online application for DSA to HCI, according to the online information, only short listed applicants will be receiving the email for test. (but for the other schools, including RI, as long as you submit application and pay test fee, you will be eligible for the test anyway). On the other hand, one of my friend told me, as long as you can get silver award and above in SMOPS and has reasonable good school result, chances of DSA to HCI or NYGS will be quite high. His DD got silver and DSAed to NYGS 2 years ago. I am very confused now......
Is you DS GEP? Gold Awards might have some advantage. 2 years ago the standard might be different.
Please refer to the following link
http://www.hci.sg/aphelion/apmops/Results_of_SMOPS_2012.htm
There are about 80 students awarded Platinum and 100 students awarded Gold. Do you think how many CO would HCI given to SMOPS Platinum and Gold award?
I think for mainsteamer DSA, HCI will consider school results, SMOPS, interview & written test and other achivement.
As compare to RI, HCI has higher chance for mainstreamer get accepted by DSA. -
This year, RI will be relised , if they choose not to offer to the top mainstream pupils, most of the top pupils will be accepting offers from HCI/NUSH or even DUMH and they will be no appeal after accepting the offers. Personally I feel RI or other schools should release data regarding DSA. e.g. how many applicants applied, how many GEP/mainstream/sports students accepted, etc. There are so much speculations among parents, teachers and pupils. It did cause confusion and wrong perception of the school.
Plus this year RI and NUSH selection camp (2nd round) are on the same date, and I checked with RI teacher, not possible to change the date. Make a wise decision if lucky you have to. -
yukilei:
Totally agreed.
Just to share, my DS & his classmates have been talking about this DSA. Many of them will automatically choose RI, HCI & NUSH. Not sure if it's being influence by parents. Have not heard any of his classmates looking into other schools. So sometime, it's not the parents who want them to go to these schools. Some parents are checking info on behalf, so that we can have better ideas & can share such info to the kids.GoodDad:
I have been following this thread since 2010. I think this thread should change to
\"DSA to RI and RGS - 1st Choice\"
\"DSA to HCI and NYGH - 2nd Choice\"
\"DSA to other school - Look somewhere else\"
I think there are more sec schools to discuss about DSA. Why parents only want their children to go to the above mentioned schools?
Just to share, I knew few of my DS ex-classmates who has DSAed into HCI and RI and they are the bottom of the class now and feel very depress due to they were the best in their pri schools. One of them has failed his mid-year English exam and it was shocked to the parent and the student. They wouldn't transfer out due to DSA.
Please consider carefully. This may not actually what your children want.
Personally, if I can choose, RI is not my choice of school. There're too many \"cream of the top\" over there. There are so many GEP students, think about 180 of them. It's so competitive. I've heard one RI student telling me that his HCI friends are more \"lax\". When they went out on weekend, the RI student (maybe this is an unique student) will return home early to do his schoolwork or revision. But his HCI friends continue to stay out. But I thought this is suppose to be the way. Not studying throughout. The kids should enjoy schools & not bury themselves on books.
But again, for the kids, peers play an impt role. They tend to want to go to the same school. Guess as parent, we can only give them our opinion, ultimate decisions will be on the kids.
I knew one of my DS schoolmates, he was the top boy in his pri school, school team of a popular sport which had won serveral zone and national award and Head Prefect. He scored 26x for his PSLE and went into RI via S1 posting.
After 2 months he requested to transfer to another school which he is currently in. When he was in RI, he just an \"ordinary\" student, there are many \"Head Prefects\", many \"School team captians\", many \"top achivers\". He was just one of them, nothing special. PSLE T-Score 26x was one of the lowest in the class. -
GoodDad:
I think Gold award for mainstreamers will at least get a WL. So if you put HCI as first choice you will get a CO. That is why the SMOPS training package cost >$2000 :moneyflies: . Parents die hard must pay and try and Vendors arepapertree:
Anyone can share some experience with HCI DSA? My DS got smops gold award, and his SA1 overall is well above 80% (math is 95), however according to his tution teacher, it's not good enough to DSA to HCI. And we have already submitted the online application for DSA to HCI, according to the online information, only short listed applicants will be receiving the email for test. (but for the other schools, including RI, as long as you submit application and pay test fee, you will be eligible for the test anyway). On the other hand, one of my friend told me, as long as you can get silver award and above in SMOPS and has reasonable good school result, chances of DSA to HCI or NYGS will be quite high. His DD got silver and DSAed to NYGS 2 years ago. I am very confused now......
Is you DS GEP? Gold Awards might have some advantage. 2 years ago the standard might be different.
Please refer to the following link
http://www.hci.sg/aphelion/apmops/Results_of_SMOPS_2012.htm
There are about 80 students awarded Platinum and 100 students awarded Gold. Do you think how many CO would HCI given to SMOPS Platinum and Gold award?
I think for mainsteamer DSA, HCI will consider school results, SMOPS, interview & written test and other achivement.
As compare to RI, HCI has higher chance for mainstreamer get accepted by DSA.
What about those who can't afford? Then can only hope for PSLE lor.
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GoodDad:
Which school is the boy in now?
Totally agreed.
I knew one of my DS schoolmates, he was the top boy in his pri school, school team of a popular sport which had won serveral zone and national award and Head Prefect. He scored 26x for his PSLE and went into RI via S1 posting.
After 2 months he requested to transfer to another school which he is currently in. When he was in RI, he just an \"ordinary\" student, there are many \"Head Prefects\", many \"School team captians\", many \"top achivers\". He was just one of them, nothing special. PSLE T-Score 26x was one of the lowest in the class. -
GoodDad:
I think Gold award for mainstreamers will at least get a WL. So if you put HCI as first choice you will get a CO. That is why the SMOPS training package cost more and more expensive and this year >$2000 :moneyflies: . Vendors arepapertree:
Anyone can share some experience with HCI DSA? My DS got smops gold award, and his SA1 overall is well above 80% (math is 95), however according to his tution teacher, it's not good enough to DSA to HCI. And we have already submitted the online application for DSA to HCI, according to the online information, only short listed applicants will be receiving the email for test. (but for the other schools, including RI, as long as you submit application and pay test fee, you will be eligible for the test anyway). On the other hand, one of my friend told me, as long as you can get silver award and above in SMOPS and has reasonable good school result, chances of DSA to HCI or NYGS will be quite high. His DD got silver and DSAed to NYGS 2 years ago. I am very confused now......
Is you DS GEP? Gold Awards might have some advantage. 2 years ago the standard might be different.
Please refer to the following link
http://www.hci.sg/aphelion/apmops/Results_of_SMOPS_2012.htm
There are about 80 students awarded Platinum and 100 students awarded Gold. Do you think how many CO would HCI given to SMOPS Platinum and Gold award?
I think for mainsteamer DSA, HCI will consider school results, SMOPS, interview & written test and other achivement.
As compare to RI, HCI has higher chance for mainstreamer get accepted by DSA. Something not very right ! unless in the past there are silver,Gold or platnium awardees got rejected by HCI without being shortlisted to prove it wrong. What about those who can't afford?
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jtoh:
Which school is the boy in now?GoodDad:
Totally agreed.
I knew one of my DS schoolmates, he was the top boy in his pri school, school team of a popular sport which had won serveral zone and national award and Head Prefect. He scored 26x for his PSLE and went into RI via S1 posting.
After 2 months he requested to transfer to another school which he is currently in. When he was in RI, he just an \"ordinary\" student, there are many \"Head Prefects\", many \"School team captians\", many \"top achivers\". He was just one of them, nothing special. PSLE T-Score 26x was one of the lowest in the class.
ACSI -
Don’t quite understand WL, is it as good as CO? Any PSLE cut off points has to be met before it could be converted to CO? Why schools offer WL instead of CO? for the previous years, there are movement after PSLE results announcement for DSA pupils, however it won’t happen this year. Then what is the purpose of WL?
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papertree:
Don't quite understand WL, is it as good as CO? Any PSLE cut off points has to be met before it could be converted to CO? Why schools offer WL instead of CO? for the previous years, there are movement after PSLE results announcement for DSA pupils, however it won't happen this year. Then what is the purpose of WL?
Some students have multiple DSA confirmed offers, from say RI, HCI, NUS High etc. So when these boys exercise their offers, they will create vacancies in the other two schools they did not take up the COs with. Then those who are on the waitlist will have the opportunity to be given a place in the school, depending on how high up the WL they are. -
papertree:
Don't quite understand WL, is it as good as CO? Any PSLE cut off points has to be met before it could be converted to CO? Why schools offer WL instead of CO? for the previous years, there are movement after PSLE results announcement for DSA pupils, however it won't happen this year. Then what is the purpose of WL?
Please refer to the following link. It has all the answer to your questions. FAQ 20 mentioned about WL.
http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/dsa-sec/faqs/#priority-explanation
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