Just a quick shout out to an upcoming event in SMSA that PreU students may have attended before. We would like your cooperation to inform your younger siblings, cousins or friends who you think will be coming to SMSA Sixth Form in the future to attend. Details are as follows:
The Pre-U Careers Department will be there for consultation and advice so if you would like to meet us (students awaiting results including former batch 2012/2013) you are welcome to do so..Just look for Table 3.
Just to officially announce that we do not accept anymore UCAS applications and is officially closed. However, we will announce another deadline after the A level exams results are out in March (not long now!)
Below is an excerpt of information posted on UCAS:
International applicants
If your applicants are applying from outside the UK or EU, many
universities and colleges will consider their application as long as it
is received at UCAS by 30 June 2014. This does not apply to
applications for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, courses in
medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or veterinary science. For all
of these, applicants must apply by 15 October 2013.
Universities and colleges do not guarantee to consider applications
they receive after 15 January 2014, and some popular courses may not
have vacancies after that date. Advise your applicants to check with
individual universities and colleges. They are advised to apply as
early as possible.
We hope this is crystal clear to everyone who have applied to UCAS and are waiting for results to be released to apply. Since we encounter several difficulties and 'challenges' from students in the last few weeks, we hope that you have prepared your personal statements early, willing to come to school to meet us or GP tutors and not make demands as if you're a big shot.
This is also to announce that ALL students who wish to apply to HECAS (Scholarship, UBD, ITB and Brunei Politeknik) should prepare ALL your academic and ECA certificates (at least 4 sets) to be sent to the school's clerks; office to be stamped and signed, you will need all this when you apply. For a sample of documents, it is pasted at the clerks office. Again, don't leave this to the last minute and expect it to be ready immediately. Once the PreU1 students come into SMSA, your previous tutors will not have time to entertain to you. Don't be lazy and make up excuses that you're not able to spend 5-10 minutes to school to prepare your documents.
There will be several events coming up that may interest you especially higher education so stay tuned and for any queries do contact us: smsacareers@hotmail.com
Here is the FIRST reminder to all students who wish to apply
to UK universities via UCAS. Please be informed that we only process complete
applications (reference forms must be complete too) and forecast grades meet
the requirements of the universities.
Some of you may already receive emails from me stating
status of your applications so please check your emails. Below is a notice from
UCAS:
Please be aware of the UCAS deadline of 18:00 (UK time) on 15 January
2014. This is the deadline for equal consideration for most courses.
Applications received after this deadline may be considered at the discretion
of each university or college.
Please take note that SMSA deadline is NEXT WEEK, Monday 13th
January 2014. If you submit after the deadline, it will be forwarded to the
next deadline (after results are out)
Also, you should consider the following before making
decisions:
1. If you are definitely applying to UCAS, please confirm
with me via email so I can check your application and process it if it meets
the requirements (esp your forecast grades)
2. Do NOT send me your personal statements without your GP
tutors checking them first (unless you’re my GP students)
3. DO NOT submit your UCAS application and make the payment
without letting me know first (students have done this). This may cause a delay
(what if your forecast grades won’t meet the requirements; we won’t process
them)
4. Don’t expect to only start your applications now
(including reference forms) and expect them to be completed in a day (We have
lives too!)
5. If you need to see me or other Careers officers, do come
by to the office and ask for any queries (emails may be replied later)
6. Remember if you are asking your subject tutors for
references, ask nicely! They have other work to do like teaching (including
me).
** Only a week left so make your decision to apply now…
