Provisional offer to uni scholarship

[zac's mum]

Congrats to Imp75’s DD and bbbay’s DD who received their provisional offers!

Could someone help me to understand the tertiary system please? The A level results will be out on 21 Feb this year I believe? So the provisional offers from the local universities are based on the school prelim results? Is there a certain grade that qualifies to receive such offers? Does the child need to apply for it? Or the school will tell the local unis and the unis will woo the top scorers? And how about overseas unis? I guess those must be actively applied to (if the child is interested) since we are not on their radar?

[sharonkhoo]

@zac-s-mum said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:

Congrats to Imp75’s DD and bbbay’s DD who received their provisional offers!

Could someone help me to understand the tertiary system please? The A level results will be out on 21 Feb this year I believe? So the provisional offers from the local universities are based on the school prelim results? Is there a certain grade that qualifies to receive such offers? Does the child need to apply for it? Or the school will tell the local unis and the unis will woo the top scorers? And how about overseas unis? I guess those must be actively applied to (if the child is interested) since we are not on their radar?

I’m not in the picture for local universities, though my impression is that they try to woo and process good students early. I expect it’s partly because this spreads out the workload, and also making an offer early may pre-dispose some students to stick to that university. My guess is that the schools will give the universities some info about students (are there privacy issues here?). Even if a student is not invited in advance, they can still apply for scholarships etc after the results are released.

Overseas universities - students need to make the applications themselves. For govt scholarships (overseas and local), it seems that schools also feed students’ names to the PSC at least. Not sure about the criteria they use - probably a good track record of scores and CCA. But even so, PSC does not help with applications, as far as I know. Some JCs can provide advice.

[Imp75]

@bbbay
We receive the NTU offer letter by mail which requires the acceptance of scholarship by 25/2 upon which if none will lapse. What will you do here? Does it mean once accepted the scholarship, you are lock into the course and uni and can’t even participate in admission exercise to the other uni which is due in end mar?

[bbbay]

@Imp75 said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:

@bbbay
We receive the NTU offer letter by mail which requires the acceptance of scholarship by 25/2 upon which if none will lapse. What will you do here? Does it mean once accepted the scholarship, you are lock into the course and uni and can’t even participate in admission exercise to the other uni which is due in end mar?

I will ask my DD to call NTU to find out whether after her accepting NTU scholarship she can’t apply for other course/Uni . this will provide clarity

[bbbay]

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[Imp75]

@bbbay
Thanks will await your update. My dd is more keen on NUS as she wants to take Jap studies as a minor which is only offered in NUS but if NUS does not award her scholarship then too sayang to give up the NTU scholarship.

[bbbay]

@zac-s-mum said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:

Congrats to Imp75’s DD and bbbay’s DD who received their provisional offers!

Could someone help me to understand the tertiary system please? The A level results will be out on 21 Feb this year I believe? So the provisional offers from the local universities are based on the school prelim results? Is there a certain grade that qualifies to receive such offers? Does the child need to apply for it? Or the school will tell the local unis and the unis will woo the top scorers? And how about overseas unis? I guess those must be actively applied to (if the child is interested) since we are not on their radar?

I do not know for sure. I think it is based on pass statistics: Students obtaining certain grades in the past during prelims, have gone on to obtain A level results that meet the local entry/scholarship requirements. provisional is for unexpected outcomes.

But I think it is the local universities, maybe also using prelim results, to first send out invitations to students to apply for early admission and/or scholarship. The uni would then process the applications and decide who to offer provisionally , using prelim results. My DD did apply for NTU.

[bbbay]

@Imp75 said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:

@bbbay
Thanks will await your update. My dd is more keen on NUS as she wants to take Jap studies as a minor which is only offered in NUS but if NUS does not award her scholarship then too sayang to give up the NTU scholarship.

Some misunderstanding . You were asking if I am in your shoe what would I do. If I am in your shoe I will ask my DD to call up.

Our situation is my DD applied and her first choice is SMU and already gotten an admission offer, with scholarship offer pending. Even with no scholarship from SMU, she will still choose SMU. If nothing unexpected happen, she’s not considering NTU now and will not be making any call to NTU.

Another suggestion to you is on next Friday, may pose this question to teacher. I think this is a really common question

[zac's mum]

@bbbay I am still abit confused.

• The provisional offers for specific courses are initiated by the local unis?

• The scholarship offers from local unis and/or other organizations are initiated by these entities?

You say that your DD applied using prelim results. So she received an invitation to apply? Is that how the process is?

• if my child is not a top scorer in prelims, is he still able to apply to local and overseas unis (less popular courses) using prelim results? Or must wait for actual A level results to apply?

• boys who need to serve NS get 3 tries to apply to uni? (1) Using prelim/actual results before NS, (2) during the following year intake while serving NS, (3) after finishing NS/working during a gap year, can still apply for subsequent intakes? How long is the A level result valid for? Does it even expire?

[bbbay]

@zac-s-mum said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:

@bbbay I am still abit confused.

Pls take note what I am sharing are what I know in the context of my children cases on A level path. Those via poly or other paths I do not know whether they work same ways. Unis are the local ones. the scholarships I am referring here are the bond free scholarships from the local universities. I do not know how the application process work for the bonded scholarships, from PSC/organisations etc.

• The provisional offers for specific courses are initiated by the local unis?

• Uni will send out early admission invitations to students. These students should be selected by Unis, base on A level prelim results.
• students that received the invitation, if keen , can then apply to the course they are interested from the Unis that invited them
• unis, after receiving the applications from keen students, will then process the applications. I think they will then look at the prelim results, may interview the applicants (I don’t recall my DD was asked to attend admissions interview), then made provisional admission offers to selected students, before A level results are released.

• The scholarship offers from local unis and/or other organizations are initiated by these entities?

After receiving invitation, In my DD case, during her online applications for early admission, I think she saw the option to apply for scholarships too. And she went ahead to do it .

You say that your DD applied using prelim results. So she received an invitation to apply? Is that how the process is?

Yes she received invitations to apply. Each local Uni will send out own early admission invitation. She only receive invitation from SMU and NTU, but not NUS.

• if my child is not a top scorer in prelims, is he still able to apply to local and overseas unis (less popular courses) using prelim results? Or must wait for actual A level results to apply?

I think all early admission applications are by invitation.

• boys who need to serve NS get 3 tries to apply to uni? (1) Using prelim/actual results before NS, (2) during the following year intake while serving NS, (3) after finishing NS/working during a gap year, can still apply for subsequent intakes?

My DS told me it’s 2 tries

How long is the A level result valid for? Does it even expire?

I do not know. But I have the impression it does not expire.