Local uni admission

• Innocentmemories

  3 May 10, 20:41

  Hi,
  
  I am a polytechnic student aiming for either NUS or NTU. My GPA is around 3.1, 'O's 16 points.
  
  I got rejected by both, but let's say I still really, really wish to be admitted into either of them. What possible ways are there to go about doing so? I hope to leave overseas uni only as a final resort.
  
  Will any of these work or at least grant higher chances of admission?
  
  1. Retake some sort of exam apart from the 'A' levels (does such a path even exist)?
  2. Get more certifications (My diploma is in the IT field) and try again?
  3. Spend 1 year to get a degree from SIM's UOL/UOW, then use it to gain entry to NUS/NTU? (Heard of this from a colleague, is this true?)
  4. Would they take working experience into consideration? If so, how many years is required?
  
  Thanks in advance for all your valuable advices! :)

• TTFU

  3 May 10, 20:43

  You can try working for one or two years before applying again. What about other Uni like Smu ? its also a public uni like nus ntu

• sinicker

  3 May 10, 20:47

  if i were you, i would start working and do a part-time degree from NUS/NTU if they're offered.
  
  check with your employers the career progession they can have for you if you work and study and when you get the degree, what they can have for you...

• 105090

  3 May 10, 20:50

  SIM, uniSIM, MDIS, Kaplan etc etc... they may cost more, but the quality isnt inferior. You dont have to go oveseas either
  
  seriously, our local uni students take their uni places too much for granted.. whole day see them on facebook or some uni social event... wondering what they studying in there, not to mention even the uni help them secure jobs without them lifting a finger!
  
  Also, no point retakng poly, extra certs etc... wont really help. If u really want a place there, theres something known as a mature candidate, where u enrol after say 5 years of working experience... but not having a NUS or NTU degree isnt the end of the road. many many more people who didnt went to these 2 schools are also doing very well.. even many of our ministers CEOs directors dont graduate from them

• Forbiddensinner

  3 May 10, 20:52

  Originally posted by Innocentmemories:

  Hi,
  
  I am a polytechnic student aiming for either NUS or NTU. My GPA is around 3.1, 'O's 16 points.
  
  I got rejected by both, but let's say I still really, really wish to be admitted into either of them. What possible ways are there to go about doing so? I hope to leave overseas uni only as a final resort.
  
  Will any of these work or at least grant higher chances of admission?
  
  1. Retake some sort of exam apart from the 'A' levels (does such a path even exist)?
  2. Get more certifications (My diploma is in the IT field) and try again?
  3. Spend 1 year to get a degree from SIM's UOL/UOW, then use it to gain entry to NUS/NTU? (Heard of this from a colleague, is this true?)
  4. Would they take working experience into consideration? If so, how many years is required?
  
  Thanks in advance for all your valuable advices! :)

  First thing for you to do is to appeal, everything comes after that.

  I won't suggest that you try taking private "A"-levels, since you did not take the JC route previously.

  You can try the mature applicant route, but you will have to work for quite a number of years. Getting more certifications will unlikely help out much, to be honest.  

• Innocentmemories

  3 May 10, 21:05

  Thanks for the responses, that definitely helped clear most of my doubts ^^
  
  What is a part time degree? Which aspects of it is different from the actual one besides being 'part time'?
  
  Ehh 5 years ><...
  Guess I might be better off with other unis, 5 years is quite a long time...oh but before I'm completely convinced to do so, could some please clarify this? *points below* Thanks so much again for the kind help! :)

  3. Spend 1 year to get a degree from SIM's UOL/UOW, then use it to gain entry to NUS/NTU? (Heard of this from a colleague, is this true?)

• Forbiddensinner

  3 May 10, 21:13

  Originally posted by Innocentmemories:

  Thanks for the responses, that definitely helped clear most of my doubts ^^
  
  What is a part time degree? Which aspects of it is different from the actual one besides being 'part time'?
  
  Ehh 5 years ><...
  Guess I might be better off with other unis, 5 years is quite a long time...oh but before I'm completely convinced to do so, could some please clarify this? *points below* Thanks so much again for the kind help! :)

  I only heard of from my NTU/NIE side, there do are student teachers from SIM coming her to take up the degree here. I can't say the same for other NTU faculties and NUS.

  Read here for more on part time degrees: 

  http://politics.sgforums.com/forums/8/topics/294094

• Et1j 12

  3 May 10, 21:28

  TS, what course u studied in poly? and what course you intend to take in Uni?
• Innocentmemories

  3 May 10, 21:32

• Dip in IT, want to take computer sceince :)