2010 DSA(Direct School Admission)

[OngMum]

Thank you for your take and advice, jtoh & Pen88n. Appreciate your well wishes for my child. I hope she does her very best for her final lap.


I would like to ask further on scenario 2 - what if she does not get into the desired school as her first choice in view her marks is higher than its COP, I think I read somewhere that COP for affiliated school will no longer stand at 188 if it is put as second choice. She will need to compete with a bigger pool of applicants and no longer having the \"priority\" rights. That's my main concern.

Thanks and Cheers!

[jtoh]

OngMum:

Thank you for your take and advice, jtoh & Pen88n. Appreciate your well wishes for my child. I hope she does her very best for her final lap.


I would like to ask further on scenario 2 - what if she does not get into the desired school as her first choice in view her marks is higher than its COP, I think I read somewhere that COP for affiliated school will no longer stand at 188 if it is put as second choice. She will need to compete with a bigger pool of applicants and no longer having the \"priority\" rights. That's my main concern.

Thanks and Cheers!

Hi Ongmum,

Yes, that is correct. She only enjoys her affiliated COP of 188 if she puts her affiliated secondary school as 1st choice. That is why I wrote to check the historical non-affiliated COP of her affiliated secondary school. Because this is the COP she will need to get back into her affiliated secondary school if she puts it as second choice.

So for eg. if the COP of her desired secondary school is 246 and your dd scores 244, while the non-affiliated COP of her affiliated secondary school is about 234, your dd can try putting her desired school as 1st choice and her affiliated secondary school as 2nd choice. Because she should be able to make it back into her 2nd choice if she fails to get into her 1st choice school. Of course we are assuming that her affiliated secondary won't suddenly make a ten point improvement in her COP.

If you think that's too much of a risk, then the other option is to put her affiliated secondary school as 1st choice and appeal to the desired school for a transfer after posting results are out. This is a very tedious process though.

[maggieloh]

nymom:

my son had exempted from mother tongue(chinese), but DHS call and said i will give yr son an offer but he need to sit for the chinese exam in the future. So funny har? already exempted why still need to sit for the chinese. Lucky my son already had few offer from others school, i ask the lady pass the ofer to other students(for good deed)

That's nice of you

My good friend's daughter is exempted from MT too but still got DSA sport offer for one of the SAP school. She is not required to take MT at all

[OngMum]

Thank you once again for your valuable inputs and advice, jtoh.

[verykiasu2010]

phankao:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"phankao\"]
But they usu say must be eligible for express stream, right?

ya lah, so the eligibility for express stream is 200, chicken feed

that means those given minimum tscore to meet for sports and arts dsa kids ..... :stupid:

Actually express stream is 188! But most of the IP schools will only take 200.

There are schools who take 188 though. Yes, those with min score for DSA above 200 - like 230 - sad, lor.[/quote]actually some schools counsel those 188 to join normal acad

[fromnuaa]

one question:

if a pupil get a CO from school A via DSA, after PSLE result is released, he want to appeal for school B. He need to withdraw from school A first and then submit appeal form to school B. But if appeal failed, can he back to school A?

[verykiasu2010]

fromnuaa:

one question:

if a pupil get a CO from school A via DSA, after PSLE result is released, he want to appeal for school B. He need to withdraw from school A first and then submit appeal form to school B. But if appeal failed, can he back to school A?

friend :

you have rejected it after accepted it

now you want to come back ??

as they said ..... someone should never return to its vomit ....

the right thing to do is : get the in-principle acceptance of school B first, before you burn the bridges

understand that lots of parents do it this way

only thing : teaching the kids the kids the WRONG value that we do not honour our commitment....promises can be broken...... moral values....nothing legalistic about it

as someone also pointed out, especially for top schools, they also offer to those who did not secure DSA offer - a second chance if they are above the COP and yet accepted the DSA offer from other schools

[fromnuaa]

if the pupil is required to report to school A on 23 Dec, but the appeal result is out (appeal is successful) on 29 Dec by school B, then how to do?

verykiasu2010:

friend :

you have rejected it after accepted it

now you want to come back ??

as they said ..... someone should never return to its vomit ....

the right thing to do is : get the in-principle acceptance of school B first, before you burn the bridges

understand that lots of parents do it this way

only thing : teaching the kids the kids the WRONG value that we do not honour our commitment....promises can be broken...... moral values....nothing legalistic about it

as someone also pointed out, especially for top schools, they also offer to those who did not secure DSA offer - a second chance if they are above the COP and yet accepted the DSA offer from other schools

[Jennifer]

fromnuaa:

one question:

if a pupil get a CO from school A via DSA, after PSLE result is released, he want to appeal for school B. He need to withdraw from school A first and then submit appeal form to school B. But if appeal failed, can he back to school A?

We used the last year COP for the appeal sch as a guide to gauge our success rate at the appeal sch. Come to think of it, it was a BIG risk. We would not do it again for our 2nd child.

If appeal failed, I doubt the rejected sch will accept your child back as it is very likely that the reserved place wld be given to someone on the sch's waiting list.

[jtoh]

Jennifer:

fromnuaa:

one question:

if a pupil get a CO from school A via DSA, after PSLE result is released, he want to appeal for school B. He need to withdraw from school A first and then submit appeal form to school B. But if appeal failed, can he back to school A?

We used the last year COP for the appeal sch as a guide to gauge our success rate at the appeal sch. Come to think of it, it was a BIG risk. We would not do it again for our 2nd child.

If appeal failed, I doubt the rejected sch will accept your child back as it is very likely that the reserved place wld be given to someone on the sch's waiting list.

You mean you have to withdraw from your confirmed school before you can submit your appeal form? I thought you submit your appeal form first, and only when the 2nd school gives an indication that your appeal will be successful do you then withdraw from the confirmed school.