DSA 2011

[phankao]

Funx3:

My Gal's Frens R at the Interview for NJC This Afternoon ....


They R Busy sms-ing each other since 3pm plus ....
Apparently her fren is informed to go for the interview at 3pm ....
But Gotta Wait Till 5pm for her turn ....

And Another fren of hers sms her that the interview took 45 min!
No wonder her other fren at the Later session gotta Wait so Long for the Interview ....

Really - so long? I don't remember my friends' kids having long delays to have their turn at interviews during my ds' time. My ds back then was thankfully the 1st one at 9am. Went in talked for 20mins and out - done.

[ngbrdad]

Funx3:

My Gal's Frens R at the Interview for NJC This Afternoon ....


They R Busy sms-ing each other since 3pm plus ....
Apparently her fren is informed to go for the interview at 3pm ....
But Gotta Wait Till 5pm for her turn ....

And Another fren of hers sms her that the interview took 45 min!
No wonder her other fren at the Later session gotta Wait so Long for the Interview ....

Many different rooms for interview.
Some are really far far away from the reporting place and there was no sheltered linkway.
Saw some staff standing by providing umbrella service.
But by the time we left around 4 (my DS was scheduled at 3.30) the place was quite empty already.

[clayman]

phankao:

Maybe it's similar to CHS where the school would rather give away it's DSA places to boys from outside schools, especially if they see that those boys, based on their past academic records, would not have a problem getting a good enough score to enter the school with affiliation \"bonus\".

I think you've hit the nail on the head. The chairman of the ACS board, in response to a question during a briefing 2 weeks ago, mentioned that ACS GEP boys would have no problem getting into ACSI anyway as they tend to score well for PSLE.

[clayman]

ngbrdad:

Quite a fair bit of the ACSP GEP only joined for the GEP and not real ACS thru and thru.
Maybe these are the ones given WL.

On the contrary, those were the ones given the COs and more likely than not, they will be taking up the RI or NUSH offers instead. That's why ACSI was appealing to those who do not intend to take up the CO to let them know early, so as to free up the places for those on WL.

[jtoh]

phankao:

jtoh:

Can a school set a pre-determined COP for S1 Central Posting? Isn't the COP determined by the last person entering the school based on vacancies? Or are you saying that NJC chooses not to admit students below a pre-determined COP so as to maintain a higher COP?

I can understand that NUSH does this because it's an independent school. But isn't NJC a government school? Does it also have the leeway to do this?

I don't see why NJC can't do that. Anyway the past 2 years intake numbers - can tell that they probably want to uphold a certain standard since they didn't take in to their capacity

Interesting. So schools can inflate their COPs by taking in fewer students than capacity.

[ngbrdad]

clayman:

ngbrdad:

Quite a fair bit of the ACSP GEP only joined for the GEP and not real ACS thru and thru.
Maybe these are the ones given WL.

On the contrary, those were the ones given the COs and more likely than not, they will be taking up the RI or NUSH offers instead. That's why ACSI was appealing to those who do not intend to take up the CO to let them know early, so as to free up the places for those on WL.

Interesting.
They are really banking on the loyalty of the ACS people.

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

phankao:

[quote=\"jtoh\"]
Can a school set a pre-determined COP for S1 Central Posting? Isn't the COP determined by the last person entering the school based on vacancies? Or are you saying that NJC chooses not to admit students below a pre-determined COP so as to maintain a higher COP?

I can understand that NUSH does this because it's an independent school. But isn't NJC a government school? Does it also have the leeway to do this?

I don't see why NJC can't do that. Anyway the past 2 years intake numbers - can tell that they probably want to uphold a certain standard since they didn't take in to their capacity

Interesting. So schools can inflate their COPs by taking in fewer students than capacity.[/quote]so NUSH & NJC do that ?

[jtoh]

ngbrdad:

clayman:

[quote=\"ngbrdad\"]
Quite a fair bit of the ACSP GEP only joined for the GEP and not real ACS thru and thru.
Maybe these are the ones given WL.

On the contrary, those were the ones given the COs and more likely than not, they will be taking up the RI or NUSH offers instead. That's why ACSI was appealing to those who do not intend to take up the CO to let them know early, so as to free up the places for those on WL.

Interesting.
They are really banking on the loyalty of the ACS people.[/quote]Actually no. Last year, a lot of the GEP boys who got WL were so upset with the school they chose to go RI instead. Some people say the school's doing this because they're fed up with giving out COs to students who eventually use ACSI as a back-up in case they get a WL from RI.

[jtoh]

vk2010, it appears so if they don’t take up to their capacity.

[pinky88]

KCQ:

pinky88:

[quote=\"KCQ\"]:thankyou: to all who congratulated me!!!:)


@pinky88: No, my interview was on the 17th.
@gijg: No, I went on 17th. I got the call on 15th, my birthday, and it was the best present ever!!!

:congrats: to your dd!

Juz to let both of u noe, in case u r not aware, those on NYGH waiting list will b assured a place in the sch if u put them as 1st choice as promised by Mdm Heng , the principal during last sat's tea reception. :celebrate:

Really? I've been told by a few friends with COs and WLs who attended the reception but I wasn't sure.. :?

Thats really great, then! :rahrah: :boogie: :imcool:
:thankyou: for telling us! [/quote]Yes, in this case WL=CO Mdm Heng even said that if in any case u put NYGH as 1st choice but didn't get in, go n look for her n she'll noe wat to do.