Exams have ended for me and I'm now enjoying my holidays! School doesn't start till August, but it doesn't mean I can lepak all day long at home. My Mum would've nagged at me all day long to get a job.
Now with regards to my title, I feel like voicing out to those who have complained about not getting into this and this course in this and this University. These students are fresh graduates from JCs and are awaiting for the Acceptance letters from various Universities. To most, I hope they have gotten what they have dreamt, but to the minorities, those who didn't get the course they wanted, don't despair.
There are those who have scored straight A's for the 'A' Levels and have applied for Medicine or Law or even Dentistry courses in the Universities, but were sadly denied the chance of interview/admission. Angry parents wrote letters to newspapers and Facebook, expressing their huge dissatisfaction with the Universities. With such good grades, it's almost like you're on an expressway straight towards any course you want even if they are the hardest course to get in. SO WHY ARE THERE STILL PEOPLE NOT ACCEPTED INTO MEDICINE/DENTISTRY/LAW? Isn't it highly confusing? And here I am, so thankful that I managed to get into a University with my not so glamorous grades, there are people with straight A's flying overseas to continue their further studies! That I just couldn't fathom.
I remember that I heard this from a friend long ago that Medicine and Dentistry is a biased course in Singapore. It's so biased that even those who promoted Dentistry said it out-rightly that Dentistry accepts mostly __JC students. So if the students from other JCs wanna enter this course, they have to be really good. I mean, COME ON. You might as well put the Dentistry Course as 'ONLY FOR __JC students'. Isn't it bias max?
Similarly for Medicine, there's so many rumors out there saying that only those students with Doctor background, like say parents as Doctors, do they stand a chance to go for the interview and get accepted. I have friends who scored straight A's who went for the interview, but none were accepted. Okay, maybe they did something wrong in the interview and in the exams, but I mean seriously? Out of so many none got in!? You must be joking... Okay move on.
It's not just this kind of horrifying rumor, there are numerous out there! I'm not gonna say them out. Just makes me get even more frustrated with the inequality.
So what am I trying to say? All those good courses are sort of reserved for the better and the highly privileged. Well, by all means, you can disagree with me with regards to the above statement. But to me, it just feels like this. Same for the PW results what with neighborhood JC scoring higher percentage of A's than some JCs and some angry reviews etc (I'm not gonna dwell into that you can just google it up on your free time).
To all those aspiring to be Doctors/Lawyers/Dentist, I'm not trying to discourage you from entering the course, but I just wanna say this; when you've done brilliantly for your 'A' Levels and applied for those good courses, even if they do not accept you, don't be sad, they just do not know how to appreciate your work. Continue to pursue your dreams. Apply for scholarship and go overseas to study! Do well and show it to those Professors who rejected you that you can do as well as those they accepted! I do not believe that people should be rejected just so they fail to have parents as doctors or just so they are not from good JCs. Everybody should have an equal chance. Isn't this taught in Social Studies? Isn't this what is highly emphasized by the Ministry?
Equality, we students wants equality too.
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