Hey guys,
updates on hall application...
For those who did not get into Sheares Hall for whatever reason, as the system of waiting list is not confirmed yet by OSA, you should
-reject your current offer if you WANT to stay only at Sheares Hall and is ok with ending up staying at home. (not recommended for international students)
-accept your current offer if you need a residences NO MATTER WHAT.
(As advised by Andy)
After the waiting list system is finalised by OSA,(which might be a few days after 3rd April) there will be another window opened for you to reject your current offer. By then, for those who have accepted earlier on, you will decide whether you want to risk your chance of having a place to stay by rejecting your "accepted" offer and enter the waiting list to come into Sheares hall, or for the safe side, accept and stay for the offered place you are given(which means you will never have the chance to come back Sheares unless via appeal).
For those that did not actually applied for pgp or rvr but eventually got it, its because OSA has this new rule that if you have enough points to stay in both residences (cutoff point for pgp is 34)but not SHeares hall, they will allocate you there as they see that you NEED a place to stay(affecting people with points that ranges from 34 to 45.5). So you will have to accept and reject accordingly.
Athough the mentioned cutoff point this year for both local and international students is 45.5, some people might not be able to get in even though they have more than 45.5. Its because of the quota for international students and local students. For Sheares, international student quota will be 15% while local student quota will be 35%(the rest kept for freshies/sep/noc). Therefore, if the quota for international student is filled with lowest point as 47, and local student have one vacacy left, a local student with 46 points will get in instead of an international student who get 46.5. Vice versa applies.
For SEP/NOC students, you will apply at another new window which will open around 1st to 14th June. NOC students will be using points from the previous year while SEP students can choose to use points that you have earned in the one sem you are around this year or whole of last year (of cox use the higher one la!)
Cases of appeal due to OSA technical errors, forget to appeal, bla bla bla, I presume that you have already informed your level reps. I will be submitting those names and reasons to Andy to appeal to OSA. However, I highly recommend that you go ahead and appeal yourself too after 3rd April as this will increase your chances further. Appeal can be via email or walk in.
Cases of master's list, level reps have also informed me (so if you havent inform your level reps pls hurry). I will be submitting your names and my recommendation letter and will rank you guys based on how active you are in block activities. To increase your chances of getting into the Master's list, you can do the following:
-Get your relevant chairpersons/ Culture ICs/ Captains to write reccomendation letter for you and submit to the relevent jcrc directors.
-Mentioned to the relevant chairperson that you are willing to pick up the role of chairperson/captains/Cultural ICs/JCRC for the next work year.
-Ask for those recommendation letters to be written as good as possible.
-Be a friend of Master.
-Buy me breakfast so that I will rank you higher
Master's list will be confirmed this week. So hurry.
Thats all I have to say, any problem come and find me. I'll try my best to find you a solution:)
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