mayb tomolo we can receive the offering letter.....

Lets hope so.......we ll get our letters this week........yeppee

i echo ur opinion.
scholarships should not be based on family background.
if lets say a person's dad is quite well off, earning like rm 8k per month.
but that dad is a very stingy person who wants his son to go the IPTA route.
but his son wants to go overseas to study in his dream uni.
he scores like 12A1 only to see ah kau , who scored less, get it.
there goes his dream. while ah kau waves goodbye from his airplane window

or, the quintessential father-forced-me-to-take-up-medicine situation,
where the son is threatened by his father to take up medicine , or risk having to fund his studies himself.
so, scholarships come in handy to those who wish to defy daddy's wishes.

after all, the income can be faked.
who bothers to check all the income and shit?
juz say you're living with ur granny and ur parents live far away.
then granny earns like rm 300 per month.
done . scholarship's urs.

IMO, for those who are poor, there are always loans, bursaries etc.
if people are really poor, shouldnt they be contented with studying locally with a bond?
damn... then make the JPA scholarship only for local studies and bond them kao kao, see whether anyone will be fighting for it anymore.

sorry if tis is off topic,. but im not gonna post here again. going to b very busy

This post has been edited by arsenwagon: May 17 2009, 06:32 PM

Sure you have to treat all good students equally but when you have limited resources how do you divide the cake? By kicking out rich students or students who scored less As? The point is rich students can still get an education without a scholarship while poor students cannot. If the gov have unlimited budget I'm sure they will gladly reward all students regardless of family income.

very anxious which ipts they will send me to....

can i post in here too??i dont apply for JPA,its MARA and i managed to get it.

for those who managed to go oversea,y are you so eager to study there??i just want to hear out your opinion

Limited resources of course you got to give the chance to those that excels 1st. What's the point of giving a scholarship to a 7As person but then ditching the 13As person because he is rich. Will you divide a larger portion of your cake to those fat and eat alot but less productive people or those that are hardworking and productive? Don't always use the word POOR as an excuse you should be more privileged in getting a scholarship to oversea. The rich aren't aliens they are also part of the community they deserved the government's reward too.

Will the probability of getting offered the scholarship increase if some1 joined national service?

Anyone from Catholic High School, PJ received the scholarship??

guys

i want to know

JPA overseas scholarship offer law course ?

if they do,how long will we need to work with gomen ?

Doh! Of course you give to the poor who actually excels in their study. But then in your argument you set the standard of "excellent" achievement as having as many As as possible. If I took only 9 subjects and get all As would I be a "lousy" student compared to the ones who got a gazillion As? My argument is that if there are no poor students that are really deserving then by all means give to the rich ones.

Tell me then if you have 50+50 rich and poor student but only scholarship for 50, how do you give out the scholarship assuming they get the same number of As?

And how can you categorize the poor as fat and eating a lot when in reality they dont eat much? Do you realize that the fact that they are poor may be the reason why some couldn't achieve academically or take as many subjects as the rich?

Gee, maybe Uncle Sam should ditch out some stimulus fund to Berkshire Hathaway coz you know, they are so successful and they deserve reward. Or maybe governments should reduce income tax for the rich coz you know......they deserve it.

For overseas law course, yea. my friend got it.

About the bond i m not sure yet........still waiting for the letter for details.

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Added on May 18, 2009, 11:30 am Cheers man!

This post has been edited by nelsonyap48: May 18 2009, 11:30 AM

I didn't CATEGORIZE the poor as fat I am giving an example to the CAKE thingy that you mentioned.
I didn't set a BENCHMARK of excellence as stated I made an example of comparison.
I didn't say the government has to reduce or increase any shit tax on them what I am stressing out is totally educational scholarship matters. What has taxing rich people to do with scholarships?
Read what I wrote again in previous post. You have problem understanding what I wrote. Others can understand so I believe it's not my problem.

What I am trying to explain is that students that excel in academic results should be treated equally regardless of their family background. 50+50 even though results are same Interview & Co-co activities have to be taken into consideration too. Of course results come 1st then evaluate other criteria that I have mentioned.

Your statement is saying like RICH PEOPLE should not be given care. Yes the fact is that they have all the money in the world to do what they want but then who are you to judge whether they deserve this or that? Others also can say the poor don't deserve the help why shouldn't they work for it?

You have to learn to see the whole scenario without being interfered by MONEY & POLITICS. My 2cents not to provoke any fire or whatsoever controversy. Cheerz!!

anybody got the offer letter yet?

No for me, i dont think so fast. Gov do things you know lah........

me not yet oso...

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Added on May 19, 2009, 4:39 pmhello......got any news?? this thread is dying...lol

This post has been edited by chiam dar siang: May 19 2009, 04:39 PM

anyone gets the letter by now?
i heard that those letters will reach at least after 2 weeks, is that real??

nope here, do anyone heard bout jpa dinner before?

What dinner? No for me too.........

some sort of jpa scholar gathering, ever heard of?