To all the people who regret not getting into NUS/NTU. Why its a blessing in disguise
Over the past 6 months I've seen alot of negativity behind SG and their top universities (alot of the current alumni complaining). Well I'm also a current alumni and let me tell you pretty much all of the negativity behind these universities is justified and to all the people who got rejected/don't have the money to go/considering between universities, trust me, yall lucked out. To most of the students who got in (most of yall are again non Tuition grant students) - well you're basically gonna be treated as cash cows and at the end of your degree, they'll give you a big fat "f off to your hometown" for which also you're gonna get absolutely no support for.
For a more detailed reason on why I'm saying this -
- Alot of the students who got rejected had applied for a tuition grant. This makes alot of sense cos alot of the Local students + bonded students in here are jobless and the sg gov realises this and they know its a bit unfair for bonded students to be staying here after graduation especially when they have a very low chance to get a job, which is why I'm assuming that they have stopped giving out alot of grants.
- The issue with the tuition grant was also that every tom, d , and harry got it like 5 years ago (pre covid + 2 years post covid). I had a senior 2 years ago who got around 87% and got into NTU computing with a Tuition grant (which heavily undermined the quality of students coming in). Obv this sucks cos those guys are barely smart enough to do anything and they give a bad rep / ruin the chances for actually talented students
- The job market is beyond cooked here with our counsellors literally telling us to go back to our own "motherland" and the NTU name is gonna carry you (spoiler its not - nobody gives a f about NTU outside of sg). I had one of my counsellors telling me to become a construction worker (yeah that's how bad things are getting here). And oh yeah did I mention, no special programs for us -> less chance for us to upskill -> lesser likelihood of getting a good job (anyways I'm not gonna rant since plenty of students have already done that)
- Even if you did manage to get in, there are certain extremely unpopular things that these guys have done over the past few years that genuinely boils my blood and you should be glad that you wouldn't have to deal with this. Stuff like mandatory research instead of work exp/internship, and this is when they know that 99% of the students aren't interested in acads, giving out student buildings to big corp simply cos they donated a ton of money to the uni (students get no benefits btw, internationals have it worse), increasing the food prices and the rent of all the halls by a drastic amount every year to the point that getting housing outside of campus now would almost be the same (usually the difference between prices outside and within campus used to be like 50% cheaper on campus). And there's quite a bit more but you get the point
- Admin is extremely inefficient and even if you get an internship, they're gonna bog you down with a bunch of unnecessary stuff (other NUS/NTU students have spoken in greater depth about this). my_qualifications
Edit: Just to add fuel to fire, go check out this NTU confessit subreddit to see the level or racism spewing in a school chat :
telegram channel : NTUConfessit ( I think I'm not allowed to post links in here). Go search up stuff like "foreigner", "immigrant", "Ceca" (that's us), "PAP" etc
Edit 2: here are a few more links talking about the exact same thing :
https://www.reddit.com/r/Indians_StudyAbroad/comments/1uchzjj/nus_cs_or_top_8_iit_circuital_why/