Rejected by UniSIM

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How good is a degree if you can't even hold on to a job? Ask yourselve a question... I have seen in person a first class grad from a local uni which is from so call well known jc work under a non grad personal.... so ask yourselve a question... how good is your degree??

There are excellent people who come from poly, and mediocre people who come from jcs. But by at large, we're talking about general trends. There's a reason why you hear of many more top students from JCs going to the best unis in the world like Cambridge, Harvard, Imperial etc than top poly students going to the same.

Even among degree holders, where you did your undergrad matters. Top jobs in the private sector like consulting and IB would prefer Ivy Leagues or Oxbridges over our local unis.

A good degree gives you a foot in the door. Everything else thereafter is competence. But if you don't even get a foot in the door, then how? Settle for something less lor.

Sg having too many private institutions providing "degrees". Having a degree is good, but also depend on the brand of the sch, the relevant cert and the companies you wish to work for.

Shd remove some private institutions in sg to balance the poly and uni grads. Too many ppl claiming themselves as degree holders, yet their institution is which most unheard of…

Shd allow juz few major players in education sector, such as 3 local uni, SIT, SIM, kaplan or perhaps PSB.

Just ask yourself if you are the employer. Would you accept a job-seeker who is a degree holder from TMC or curtin? Worse still, some even pursue masters in these schs.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was told by my teacher that if I didn't work hard in school, I would end up in a poly.

I chose to go to poly over JC and i ended up in the local uni of a course of my choice

The opposite was true for some of my friends unfortunately =/

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The things that you're saying are what many poly students always tell themselves.

I am a poly student and I won't deny that.
I tell myself that my diploma has earned me good hands on and technical skills and is much more valuable than an A level cert.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If that cert is really that good, poly students wouldn't be taking such a low starting pay once they enter the work force. Have you thought about this?

That is only true if poly students are not going to further their studies in uni.

I graduated 1 year ago and i am awaiting to enroll into a local university of my choice after I ORD. Do you think a local poly graduate securing a place in a decent local U will have a low starting pay over their A level counterparts? No.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How "good" poly students really are is an open secret in Singapore.

They have more hands on and are more street smart than jc students.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Also, the content taught in polys is so shallow. Even the dummies guide will cover any subject area in greater depth past chapter 3-4 than what is taught in the polys. At the same time, I understand that most of those enrolled in polys are simply slow at learning & thus the polys are in way forced to limit the content taught and also the pace at which content is taught.

LOLOLOL. I actually laughed at this 1. Ill give you a 7/10 for trying to troll here.

But really, no. There are many 7-9 pointers o level smart asses choosing poly route over JC route and many of them are succesful.

I don't mean to brag but I graduated with a diploma with merit from my poly as the top 10% of the graduating cohort, and I'm extremely grateful for my helpful lecrurers and experiences i have on poly.

Even so, im not the smartest. Oh man, you should see what those foreign talents in poly can do, it will blow your mind off.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't understand why you simply refuse to accept that there are people who are better than you.

人外有人,天外有天。

At some point in life you will always meet someone who is better than you or worst-off than you. Don't be so arrogant or mean to those below you because karma hits like a truck :P

Originally Posted by AC2859

received an email stating i hv been rejected by unisim.

applied for the accountancy prog, poly gpa is 2.8, abt 2+ years of experience. thought the admission interview went ok too.

anyone got rejected too? should i appeal? thought it was easy to enter...

Your 2.8 is definitely cannot get in.
My sister has 3.3, she got rejected by the FT Accountancy course too.
She was told the course is oversubscribed, there are only 120 places but more than 10x applied.

Hey guys I have a GPA of 3.1.Now I understand SAT can play a vital role in ones admissions,especially when one is applying to SMU or UniSIM.Since SMU have openly stated 2100 for acc or law and 1900 minimum for others.What do you think UniSIM SAT requirement would be considering it's not even as reputable as SMU? Thanks!

For your own benefit, don't study accountancy if you can't.

I am in SMU acct. My classmates from poly are supposedly the top 10% from polys. Many of them are from biz and acct courses. They struggle to keep up with JC students even in biz and acct mods. Even those who spent 3 years studying accountancy lose to JC students in accountancy exams. They tell me what poly taught them in 3 months is taught in a few weeks here. I don't even understand how something so simple need so long to teach?

If this is the standard of 3.7-3.9 poly GPA students from "top poly courses" like biz and acct, who can barely cope with a 3 year head-start in the subjects, when I hear of even lower GPA poly students saying they want to study accountancy, I feel obliged to warn them.

Anyway, if you think that you can and you want to become an accountant, you're probably better off doing an accredited certification that allows you to be an accountant than a non-recognised accountancy degree.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hey guys I have a GPA of 3.1.Now I understand SAT can play a vital role in ones admissions,especially when one is applying to SMU or UniSIM.Since SMU have openly stated 2100 for acc or law and 1900 minimum for others.What do you think UniSIM SAT requirement would be considering it's not even as reputable as SMU? Thanks!

Erm. Just an FYI, SATs are not given a lot of weight here, be it in SMU or Unisim. Especially SAT1 because the universities are not dumb, they know how shallow SAT1 is as compared to the A-levels or poly dip.

However, yes, I've seen people get into SMU with average A-levels and poly GPA but good SAT results. But when I say "good" SAT results is definitely more than 2000. 1900 would not make the cut IMO. I have friends who got 1980 and didn't get in. I myself got 2000 exactly but was rejected by SMU because my A-levels were DDD. Didn't even get an interview. That was a few years ago.

So 2100 would definitely not get you into law. and 1900 would definitely not get you into the other courses either. I believe that when SMU says "minimum" they mean the "minimum" they would consider. Not the minimum that they will accept. They can consider and then reject.

Hey guys I want to study econs but UNISIM doesn't offer econs so should I just consider SIM UOL econs or choose unisim a course that I'm not interested in because it's a Local U ? Thanks.

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There are ideas, beliefs, and values that most people accept, and it is pointless to argue with them. There are people, however who see such restraints as intolerable infringement on their freedom, and who have a need to prove the superiority of their beliefs. There is a strong emotional content in their beliefs: They really do not want to have to rework their habits of thinking, and when you challenge them, whether directly though your arguments or indirectly though your behavior, they are hostile.

Often people who criticize your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get to where you are now. They put labels on your actions so as to simplify them in order to better critique them. When you try to do things or act differently, people unconsciously compare themselves with you based on their own knowledge and experiences.

As such, they feel a mild discomfort due to conflicting beliefs, and when you try to assert a new unconventional idea - one indirectly prove superiority or uniqueness of your ideas, hence they indirectly feel inferior. People are more comfortable with ideas that are old and familiar.

When they feel inferior, they cope with this mild threat of cognitive dissonance by discounting the qualities of your ideas. They will also put you down to elevate themselves (self-bolstering) or selectively ignoring the importance of your goals so that it is no longer highly self-relevant to themselves. And when you continue to nudge them further, they may turn hostile due to the relational dissatisfaction with you, motivated by envy emotion.

Individuals sometimes cope with envy by engaging in self-bolstering. Envious individuals also make themselves feel better by belittling others. Rather than casting themselves as superior, individuals who belittle cast others as inferior. The envious individual has bolstered her/his own self-image at the expense of another. An envious person might try to harm the rival's reputation.

When you succeeded unexpectedly, they shall return to try to associate and fawn over you, hopefully to reap some benefits from your success. There is a saying: What is least expected is most valued. The first and the best is highly prized. When least present, it is the most missed. Most people are conformist to their own social circle. And because of their commonness, they are less valued. It is worthy to note that powerless people are primarily concerned with safety and security - thus they are usually more concrete, more conventional, and more risk-averse.

The dichotomy between local vs private unis or local vs foreign unis are just a myth to mask the inner need for superiority and assuage one's insecurity. Birds of the same feather flocks together. People tend to seek out people just like themselves for support and catharsis. There is an old adage; misery loves company. People have a need to maintain their self-schema, so often, they will relate with people that are relevant to themselves such as similar interest, beliefs, people, events, causes, and places. Same for intelligent people, they tend to be drawn towards like-minded affinity.

The need to put others down to elevate themselves unveils interesting details about their thinking. So don't bother to make other people understand you, and when they do, paradoxically they lose respect for you - because you are common like them. A winner is never asked for explanations.