NUS guide: entering university! 🏫🎓💯

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Hope CourseReg Round 1 was alright! If it wasn’t, one thing you can do is check out past CourseReg reports. The following is a helpful tool: https://courserekt.vercel.app For the course that you didn’t get, look at whether more available spots are typically made available for the course in Round 2 and 3. This may help you manage your expectations (for the better or worse) as you proceed to Round 2 where you may try again to bid for it. Also, this Apple bonus promotion (which we shared before) also returned today (and ends on 30 July)! https://t.me/ThisCounted/1252 You may check it out if you haven’t bought your devices yet as this gives bonus rewards on top of the usual Apple Back to School perks (purchasing using @ThisCounted gives the best rewards). Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

Some courses have started to show up on Edurec if you successfully got them in Round 1! Your outcome will be visible at edurec > academics > academic records > view courses Don’t fret if you don’t see everything yet, of course! The results are fully released only at 9 a.m. tomorrow. P.S. especially for freshies, if you haven’t join your faculty gc, make sure to join as this may be helpful later on for swapping purposes/major-specific matters https://t.me/NUSguide/156 Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

Some helpful notes: 1. This is not by first-come-first-serve basis, although you need to make sure you have added your courses before Round 1 ends. Thus, don’t worry too much if edurec is very laggy in the morning (which is usually the case since many try to add their courses immediately), because you can also add it later in the day. This doesn’t affect your priority. 2. There is no further “submission” button after you have added/ranked all your courses; whatever is there will be auto-processed at the end of Round 1. This also means that until Round 1 ends, you can keep making changes to your course ranking/selection. (This also means you can continue to keep an eye on the number of students who have selected the particular course, and consider whether you’d want to adjust your ranking, i.e. put the hardest to secure/over-bidded courses at a better ranking. This usually isn’t necessary if vacancies are in excess, though.) Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

Hi everyone! Reminder that course registration is tomorrow (21 July), starting at 9 a.m. and ending 22 July 12 p.m. You should have some pre-allocated courses (unless you don't need any) by now if you did academic plan declaration. It may be possible to drop some pre-allocated courses to free up space for others, but there usually isn't much of a reason to do this. ----- You should have done your academic plan declaration by now (if you followed our earlier post advice). This should enable to bid for courses under what you have declared, for the current round (Round 1). ----- One area of confusion when doing CourseReg is knowing what the value of the "reserve" classes is. The courses that are “ranked” (“main list”) are processed first by the system before looking at “reserve” classes. It’s only if the ranked classes are oversubscribed that the system would consider you for what you have under “reserve classes”—even then, the reserve classes must have vacancies. Reserve classes positioned higher (I.e. #1 instead of #2) also have higher priority than reserve classes positioned lower. (This should probably mean it doesn’t really help much for your reserve classes to be the same as those in your ranked classes, since if you didn’t get it when the system processed the main list first, it’s unlikely you’d get it when it processes the reserve list). Additionally, it might sometimes be advisable to have the harder-to-bid-for courses you want bided for in earlier rounds, and then bidding for the easy-to-bid-for course in later rounds, if you're not able to already bid for all of them. You may view past vacancy reports for some sensing of this too (checking whether a course typically has excess vacancies even in e.g. end of Round 3). The following may be useful for this: https://courserekt.vercel.app Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

You have up to 32 units of S/U, but… Old policy: up to 20 units can only be applied in your first year (I.e. y1), and up to 12 units in subsequent years NEW policy, just announced by NUSSU: up to 20 units can only be applied within your first two years (i.e. up till y2), and up to 12 units in subsequent years This policy change grants you greater flexibility. In the past, what we used to do was to intentionally overload courses in y1 so as to be able to fully exploit the S/U policy (purposely taking more courses that you don’t care about in the first year where you have more S/Us usable). Now, with this policy change, there is less of a need to do so since the “first 20 units S/U quota” can be spread over two years! If you found these tips/updates so far helpful, do share this channel @NUSguide with your friends!! 🙌

Further advice on Academic Plan Declaration: Some of you may eventually want to pursue ‘restricted’ second majors/minors. For 'restricted' second majors/minors (these are the ones you can't directly declare), some of these require you to e.g. take a certain number of the relevant courses before you can declare them. If you think about it, that can be a bit of a chicken and egg problem (you need to declare it to be your second major/minor to have priority to be able to bid for these courses, but at the same time, you need to have taken a few of these courses before you can even declare it to be your second major/minor). This often results in people who want to declare these as second major/minor in future being unable to get the courses needed to even be eligible to declare it on time. For instance, in my personal experience, when I wanted to get a second major in management (aka second major in biz), it required you to take ~four business courses (do read up on which exact four are eligible to count) before you can declare it as second major. However, securing these courses in the first place may be challenging when you do not already have it declared (since actual business students get priority). Many students fail to declare a Second Major in Management because of this (the requirement is to declare before end of y2, but many fail to even secure the required courses by then). A loophole I thought of (not that we are recommending loopholes, of course) is to declare a second major/minor in something else that isn’t ‘restricted’ but has common courses. In this case, an example is a Minor in Entrepreneurship. Anyone can declare they are going to minor in Entrepreneurship, unlike minoring/second majoring in Management. So what you can do is declare a minor in entrepreneurship first, get a slight priority for some courses like BSP1702, MNO1706, MKT1705, ACC1701 (and many more courses which are also possible prerequisites to declare a minor/second major in management), be more likely to secure the needed courses, and then in future semesters it may be easier to declare a second major/minor in Management having secured the needed courses to declare it. 🚨Also, reminder that Academic Plan declaration has opened, and you can only select this once a sem! You would want to get this done by 19th July to ensure this is processed by CourseReg. [we will continue posting here as we progress through/get closer to the coursereg rounds!] If you found these tips/updates so far helpful, do share this channel @NUSguide with your friends!! 🙌

CourseReg calendar: https://www.nus.edu.sg/CourseReg/docs/UGCPE_CourseRegSchedule.pdf Reminder that Academic Plan Declaration starts on 14 July 9 a.m. (it may be a good idea to declare by 19 July so that the system has processed this by Round 1 CourseReg on 21 July. This processing takes around 24 hours, so you may be too late if you only do it when CourseReg opens.) Here’s a tip applicable to some: - When “bidding” for courses later on, priority is given based on various factors, such as seniority. One factor that gives you priority over someone else for course selection is actually what your declared major/minor is, and whether that course is tied to it. Since academic declaration resets every semester, some students take advantage of this. Some see this as a loop-hole (i.e. declaring something as your intended second major just so you have priority for its modules—even if in truth, one hasn't decided to take that as a second major/minor) E.g. if you are from NUS CHS, and are planning to major in e.g. Sociology (or you're in some other faculty), but just want to take an economics course as a UE/for exploration, you would probably “lose” to students when trying to bid for that economics introductory course when you are competing against those who have declared themselves to be Economics majors or even those who declared they’d second major/minor in economics. In this case, some might take advantage of the Academic Plan Declaration by declaring “Economics” as one’s second major/minor to ensure they can get the introductory economics course, even though the truth is they just want to take the economics introductory course for exploration/as a UE. This may give you priority over students (of same seniority etc.) that did not declare "Economics" in their plan at all. —> in fact, supposing that it is extremely easy to get the modules for Sociology (in the above example, where it’s one’s actual intended first major) compared to Economics (just an example), what has been strategic to some is to just declare their first major as “Economics” (the major with courses harder to successfully bid for) and the second major as “Sociology” (the one that e.g. is easier to bid for). This helps them to more likely secure the hard-to-get course whilst still getting the easy-to-get course. --> another reason to declare is because if it's not in your plan at all, then you may not be able to partake in bidding in Round 1 of CourseReg (and of course, there'd be fewer spots by Round 2/3). The above is just a guide for those who are still unsure about what they want to do—let the above be assurance that it’s entirely fine to declare something and then change your declaration in another semester! I.e. if there’s a course hard to bid for that you wanted to take just to try out before deciding if you want to second major in it, you’re probably wiser to just declare that you are first—you can always change your mind later when it’s acad plan declaration in the subsequent sem! If you found these useful, share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors, including incoming freshies! 🙌🏻

What if I didn’t secure housing in Round 1? Whether you’re in Round 1 or Round 2 matters. You might recall our previous post reminding that Round 1 ended at 11.59 a.m. (back on 17 June). This means that if you submitted at noon at or later that day, you’re in Round 2, and it’s normal that you haven’t heard back (because what just got released are Round 1 results). That said, hostels generally fill up most spots in Round 1. Some may intentionally reserve some spots for Round 2 applicants, but these would be limited. Spots in Round 2 could also be available if those offered in Round 1 decided not to proceed. You may continue to make an appeal for stay if you applied but didn’t secure stay in Round 1. What if I am still unsuccessful? There is a lesser-known continuation: your appeal doesn’t end here. In the first weeks of school starting, people do withdraw. There has historically always been students (even if very few) withdrawing from their hostel stay in the first weeks of school because the dorm-life is not what they expected, or for other personal reasons. Noting that this is beyond the typical application period via UHMS, the way to get these newly vacated spots has been to email specific hostels to appeal for stay in the first few weeks after the semester starts in August. Some (both seniors and freshmen) have indeed managed to secure their stay this way. It likely helps if you have compelling reasons or ways you can contribute to the hostel. If you found these useful, share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors, including incoming freshies! 🙌🏻

For seniors: Reminder for this! Another window for S/U has opened and closes 6 July 6 p.m.

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For those looking to buy NUS shirts, those from this official fundraiser are the cheapest you can get them (at as low as $13 per shirt). The main alternative is to buy from NUS Co-op, but their prices are usually seen as over-priced (so an NUS shirt there costs ~$26 per shirt, which is double that of this official fundraiser) so it's recommended that you get them while this fundraiser is ongoing! The @nusshirts fundraiser only runs for a limited duration, so this is the best time to get your merch! If you found these useful, share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors, including incoming freshies! 🙌🏻 (if you’re an incoming freshman in search of orientation camps/projects, you can also check out @NUSSUfop 📆)

Courses for next sem are out! View them at nusmods.com We will share more tips and hacks for coursereg soon! If you found these useful, share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors, including incoming freshies! 🙌🏻 (if you’re an incoming freshman in search of orientation camps/projects, you can also check out @NUSSUfop 📆)

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Edited regarding release of courses offered / course info—the date is out!

‼️ Reminder that this Apple / @ThisCounted student deal ends tonight!👩‍💻👨‍💻 —- Also if you’re wondering when you can find information on the coming semester’s courses, it will be out on 1 July ⭐️! We will share tips on course bidding shortly after; stay tuned! If you found these useful, share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors, including incoming freshies! 🙌🏻 (if you’re an incoming freshman in search of orientation camps/projects, you can also check out @NUSSUfop 📆)

For seniors: Missed the previous S/U window or regret not S/U-ing? Another S/U window opens on 4 July. Although intended to be for special term students, you’d also be able to partake in this S/U round! This will be from 4-6 July, by 6 p.m. If you found these useful, share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors, including incoming freshies! 🙌🏻

The annual @ThisCounted & Apple Back to School campaign has started 🍎 This allows you to maximise your student perks: you get a free accessory from Apple when you purchase an iPad/MacBook and also bonus cash/vouchers (up to $60, minimum $30) from @ThisCounted , a student deals channel, if you used their affiliate link. This bonus offer ends on 25 June ‼️— if you’re a student looking to get Apple products before the sem resumes, this is said to be the best time to purchase. View their FAQ here! If you found these useful, share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors, including incoming freshies! 🙌🏻 (if you’re an incoming freshman in search of orientation camps/projects, you can also check out @NUSSUfop 📆)

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