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[DadOfGirl]

slmkhoo:

DadOfGirl:

Dear JC parents,


Mid-year started already ... we will be staring at Choices for undergraduate programs at local university in 18 month time. For parents of ARTs stream(With H2 maths) students , followings are choices

1) NTU/NUS/SMU - Accountancy & Business Administratation corses
2) NTU/NUS/SMU- FASS( Faculty of Arts & Soc Science courses)
3) NUS/SMU/SIM( Coomunity law) - Law courses
4) Yale-NUS

Seems like very limited choice , is there any undergraduate program available at local university, i have forgotten?

Thank you

FASS coveres a very wide range of courses, so the list would be more than it looks.

Ok .. Understand. Do you apply to FASS or individual courses.My Niece says , she was accepted by NUS FASS, but i dare not ask above!

[sharonkhoo]

DadOfGirl:

Ok .. Understand. Do you apply to FASS or individual courses.My Niece says , she was accepted by NUS FASS, but i dare not ask above!

Sorry, no idea whether the application requires you to indicate course or whether it's for the whole FASS. It's so wide a range that I guess there should be some indication of course, but I don't actually know. Someone else who knows, please?

[jtoh]

Dadofgirl, you apply to FASS first. Then if successful, select your majors upon admission.

[sharonkhoo]

jtoh:

Dadofgirl, you apply to FASS first. Then if successful, select your majors upon admission.

Oh, so even if you get into FASS, it's not a done deal that you get into the major that you want? But some majors are so much more popular than others, so wouldn't the cut-offs be very different? Does NUS release info about the cut-offs for each major? Seems a bit hit and miss, then.

[jtoh]

slmkhoo:

jtoh:

Dadofgirl, you apply to FASS first. Then if successful, select your majors upon admission.

Oh, so even if you get into FASS, it's not a done deal that you get into the major that you want? But some majors are so much more popular than others, so wouldn't the cut-offs be very different? Does NUS release info about the cut-offs for each major? Seems a bit hit and miss, then.

Yes, it's more competitive for some majors. There's a bidding system involved in allocating majors. Details here: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/prospective/u ... q.html#six

[sharonkhoo]

jtoh:

slmkhoo:

[quote=\"jtoh\"]Dadofgirl, you apply to FASS first. Then if successful, select your majors upon admission.

Oh, so even if you get into FASS, it's not a done deal that you get into the major that you want? But some majors are so much more popular than others, so wouldn't the cut-offs be very different? Does NUS release info about the cut-offs for each major? Seems a bit hit and miss, then.

Yes, it's more competitive for some majors. There's a bidding system involved in allocating majors. Details here: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/prospective/u ... q.html#six[/quote]Thanks! Does NTU Arts/Humanities department work the same way? I'm not even sure my daughter can get in eventually, but it seems like getting in is only the first hurdle! Thankfully the courses she is likely to want to do are not the named 'popular' ones! Why can't NUS be like the UK universities where you apply for a specific course (eg. Lit/Geog/Econs etc) right from the beginning?

[jtoh]

No idea about how NTU arts/humanities works.

[havok_ex]

slmkhoo:

Thanks! Does NTU Arts/Humanities department work the same way? I'm not even sure my daughter can get in eventually, but it seems like getting in is only the first hurdle! Thankfully the courses she is likely to want to do are not the named 'popular' ones! Why can't NUS be like the UK universities where you apply for a specific course (eg. Lit/Geog/Econs etc) right from the beginning?

NTU HASS works differently. You apply directly for the major. This is unlike FASS where you apply for FASS and compete for your major.

I for one think that the FASS system is much more meritocratic. A-levels and poly GPA is not a good indication if a person will or will not excel in a certain Humanities/SS major. Hence, enrolling them into FASS first and letting them compete for their major is better in my opinion.

[sharonkhoo]

havok_ex:

slmkhoo:

Thanks! Does NTU Arts/Humanities department work the same way? I'm not even sure my daughter can get in eventually, but it seems like getting in is only the first hurdle! Thankfully the courses she is likely to want to do are not the named 'popular' ones! Why can't NUS be like the UK universities where you apply for a specific course (eg. Lit/Geog/Econs etc) right from the beginning?

NTU HASS works differently. You apply directly for the major. This is unlike FASS where you apply for FASS and compete for your major.

I for one think that the FASS system is much more meritocratic. A-levels and poly GPA is not a good indication if a person will or will not excel in a certain Humanities/SS major. Hence, enrolling them into FASS first and letting them compete for their major is better in my opinion.

The assumption for NUS would then be that choice of course is by merit more than by interest, and that students don't really mind what course they study and will be OK with whatever they can get into. However, there will be some kids with narrow interests who may have preferred to go somewhere else if they knew they couldn't get a specific major in NUS. I do agree that the flexibility of allowing students to decide on their majors later is not a bad idea, though. I wonder if some way of coping with both aims is possible?

Thanks for the info about NTU.

[DadOfGirl]

jtoh:

slmkhoo:

[quote=\"jtoh\"]Dadofgirl, you apply to FASS first. Then if successful, select your majors upon admission.

Oh, so even if you get into FASS, it's not a done deal that you get into the major that you want? But some majors are so much more popular than others, so wouldn't the cut-offs be very different? Does NUS release info about the cut-offs for each major? Seems a bit hit and miss, then.

Yes, it's more competitive for some majors. There's a bidding system involved in allocating majors. Details here: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/prospective/u ... q.html#six[/quote]Thanks Jtoh for info. Looks like a Gamble to get admission & then compete. SMU is also similar , you apply to faculty of Social science & then choose course.