can't remember..i think 78000 all in all.... or issit 78000SGD? i can't remember. i did my research way back in 2004, when I was still naive that a-levels was a breeze. SO NOT TRUE.

i wanted to go there reallly badly actually.

if you've not done your foundation, i advice you to PLEASE PLEASE try for the asean scholarship and do ur a levels at a college there. would be much easier to get in.

I don't think it's that cheap >.<. Yeah,at one point,i wanted to go there so badly too. I applied for asean before my spm but i didn't get it. I thought of applying after my A levels results but they closed the application d. I wonder why our A levels here especially London board is sort of not recognised there so we still have to sit SAT 1 >.<

yeah i remember the whole SAT 1 hoo hah. i thought it was too tedious and thank god aimst opened.

my bf and i actually planned to go to NUS together like back in high school. He's there now doing pharmacy. :\ I'm going there in a few hours' time though! NUS i mean. hehe, happy merdeka to you~!

Singapore universities choose their students based on pure merits and extracurricular inlvolvement. Even to their own citizens, they're very particular in the selection process. That is why, it's not easy to secure a place in the university unless you have got very good results for your pre-u programmes eg. GCE A levels (sat by ASEAN scholars) plus a good involvement in extracurricular activities such as participation in national debate competition etc. Plus, you've gotta compete with students all over the world as NUS is one of the prestigious uni in this region. Dentistry course esp are very competitive. Also, be prepared to face excessive amount of stress if you plan to study in SG.

And thanks jayelleenelial for the explaination. Haven seen you around for quite some time already!

This post has been edited by csrulez: Aug 27 2008, 12:24 PM

To jayelleenelial,
Wow,really pharmacy in NUS? AWESOME!! XD. Btw,actually i'm choosing between pharmacy and dentistry. I have no idea which one. At first i wanted pharmacy but then i heard that you'll remain static and your pay too. Sigh. So that's why i'm thinking of dentistry. Well,what does your bf think of pharmacy in that way? Haiz..i might choose pharmacy if it wasn't for that. Btw,how much difference is the salary of a dentist and a pharmacist? I feel so money minded thinking of future income but i have no choice...i don't want to regret next time =.=.

Happy merdeka to you too


To csrules,
Yeah,i know it's super stressful. I have one friend who's in NUS and she's having a hard time. She said try imagining that everyone except you knows what's the teacher talking about...something like that. Then she said the indians from india and the chinese from china are SUPER smart and also she said they sort of look up to malaysians because......we are multilingual... hahaha! Mandarin,canto,english,malay,hokkien

This post has been edited by joychin89: Aug 27 2008, 12:29 PM

Besides income, think of the job that will suits your lifestyle and interest more for the future. You won't want to work for the sake of money for a lifetime, don't you? Job satisfaction is the most imp thing here. Get a job that you totally have interest in, else you'll lose interest even during the studies itself. Few of my seniors got that "syndrome" of losing interests in medicine in their 3rd and 4th year. Only thing i can say is that, you will definitely have no problem in terms of income if u were to choose in between dentistry and pharmacy. They are both professionals.

And yes, that's the only plus point of Malaysians. We're multilingual. Hahaa! Singapore is a great place to reside if you can deal with the stress, esp for education and career development.

hahaha.. yeah.. but the malaysians and singaporeans don't look up to the china chinese there. apparently they can be quite dirty...and strange. Racism among our own race.

Yeah.. no, we don't have plans to settle down in Singapore. would be to stressful for the kids. and i want a garden!

Erm...... well, obviously i chose dentistry is because of the PAY! haha, totally fell asleep when i did my attachment at SUnway Medical back in 04 when they brought me round to the pharmacy, so i scratched that out. My bf is doing pharmacy coz his dad is a pharmacist, but he has grown to love the course. I mean if you go into the corporate side of pharmacy, I'm sure the sky is the limit too.


I also chose dentistry because I didn't like the long hours put in by doctors..and i didn't want to sit behind a microscope as how I probably would if I stuck to my initial plans of a biotech/biomed double degree at Monash. Furthermore, anything non-science was not an option as I would've sucked in anything else. maths was a nononononoo.. so yeah, if you're in science, you only got biotech/engineering/doctor/dentist/pharmacist/nursing etc.. and other fancy-pants science degrees as wel.

I like talking, I like creativity, I like biology, I like meeting new people, I like money.... that's why I'm in dentistry.

Honesty. I got it.

This post has been edited by jayelleenelial: Aug 27 2008, 01:33 PM

LOL! Are the pharmacy in the hospital something like in the store pharmacy? As in like.....they stand there at the small booth with the lab coat then people will ask them "oh,if i have this and that,what medication would be suitable?".

Same here...math and physics are my worst subjects >.< . I love chemistry more than bio though but bio is still ok la. Do you need a lot of chemistry knowledge in dentistry

haha...well, i'm not sure. but the pharmacists get very uptight when u ask them for things like, "excuse me, where are the disposable panties"when ur in a pharmacy.

nah, more bio. chemistry in biochemistry lor, first year.

oK:) will reply u if u have anymore queries once i reach singapore. taata!

Haha. Ok then . Thanks a lot. No more questions for now. Take care!

The China Students are called PRC in NUS, and they tend to group together, so basically u dun get much chance to communicate with them.

"Stressful" is really smtg subjective, and depends alot on ur expectations.

And somehow i think stress is proportional to competitiveness. I guess most parents would want their children to be more competitive right.

This post has been edited by wgy589: Aug 27 2008, 02:29 PM

Oh, merdeka comming? When is it?

^

Erm.....31st of August... O_o

You seriously think he doesn't know when merdeka is? Hahaa.

Btw, Biochemistry kills. Lol.


P.s. Just finished my medical ethics paper. Totally screwed it up. Sigh. =(

^

LOL. Biochem,is that the only paper which involves chemistry? What do you learn in it?

What do you guys think of Nottingham for dentistry? Is there any twinning program? Is it good? Are there practice on cadavers like in AIMST? How much roughly is the program? =.= Opps.....i don't think nottingham has dentistry. Sorry,my mistake.


Sigh,on the dentistry course,i'm still worried about the non-twining program. You know,nowadays,it's best if you have studied overseas before so it'll be recognised over there so you can work there and your cert would be more cantik than others who only studies locally and etc etc. How do you guys cope with this? I mean,after you graduate,then yes,you'll have to work for the government for 3 years but how about after that? Oh,and i have another question,if you have studies overseas before aka the twinning program,can you straight away work there after working with the government?

This post has been edited by joychin89: Aug 27 2008, 06:49 PM

Firstly, why are you so freakin worried about where to go after the 3 year government service? I'm sure it's gonna be fun in the government clinics too you know...there's so much more to learn and to experience in clinics n hospitals. I just hate it when everything is about their salary. You want money go do business...sell car sell house...

No, you cannot straight away go work at any foreign country. I think the UK don't want us anymore (at least for doctors i think). It's difficult to get into Australia. USA has their USMLE thing. But you'll have to find your own residency etc etc...very ma fa

I've not thought so far as to which country I'd like to go work in in the future.

I've always wanted to stay in Malaysia to take care of my parents and furthermore, when you're in the medical line(oklah, downgrade abit, dental field), jobs will be in abundance. The reason why you're doing this(i'm sure your parents highly encourage also) is because there will always be a demand for dentists.

You will always have a stable rice bowl.

Our dean is working on the whole international recognition thing. Might not be that great for the pioneers and the second batch( heyyyy edge85 ) or even the third lah, since it's still early days. if you're coming in, it'll be like 10 years of AIMST Dentistry by the time u get out... so things could be very different then.

Petrol price also can go down in three months. Unhappy things can change one lah.

Yup, AIMST really do have the potential to excel as a global university now. It's so freaking different from few years ago. Example would be that not only the school of dentistry is fighting for international recognition, but the school of medicine has also collaborated with Imperial College London on a joint research which spans up to 10 yrs on infectious diseases. I believe there's more to come in to the future.

Jolene, certainly u guys (the pioneer batch) will have to work alot for the MDC recognition thingy (If MDC has the same criteria for recognition as MMC). It's definitely a noble job. I kinda admired our 1st and 2nd batch seniors for going though so many exams and extra courses specially arranged for them to attain recognition from MMC. It took 1 whole year for them to completely fullfil all de requirements. Now that we have got the recognition, they have definitely placed in ALOT of efforts. They are kind of like our model now as all de lecturers talk about how good and competent they are to each and every batch of juniors after they have graduated. Haha.

ahahhaa..wow.. hopefully we'll be that much of a 'star' when we graduate.

yeah I was very impressed when I read in the papers about AIMST teaming up with Imperial College to research on tuberculosis. Which years are involved? Or only the doctors?

Yup, definitely.

Only the physicians/lecturers from SOM department of medicine, i guess students are just not qualified to participate in any official research projects yet. Haha. Only SSMs. Sigh. We actually have a Research Ethical Community now in the uni to review all the SSMs and research proposals by students and lecturers. As told by Prof Narayan from dept of community med. Looks like the university has started walking onto the research track already. It's a good start for AIMST, we're gonna be an international recognised research hub one day.

This post has been edited by csrulez: Aug 28 2008, 04:07 PM