What do you think of this Advertisement?

[SupremeC]

NUS Advertisement


It's been splashed all over my country's newspapers today (which of course does show nothing much goes on here). Basically it's about a girl who rejected Wharton Business School (#1 in the world by Financial Times), Chicago Business school(#6) and Sloan (#10) and was excited to travel halfway around the world to attend the National University of Singapore's Business School(#92).

 

[Birdjaguar]

I liked the ad, but I've already been to business school, so I skipped the poll.

 

[SupremeC]

Oh no. Forgot about people like you. How do you edit the poll?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

One odd thing about the ad. When a school sends you a rejection letter, it will be in a regular envelope. When they accept you, it is usually a large envelope because they give you a lot more information about the school. But in every commercial for colleges that I have ever seen, the acceptance letter is regular sized.

 

[SupremeC]

Really? I got all three of mine in small envelopes. That's in Singapore anyway. Never applied to a university out of Singapore.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I got all 4 of my acceptance letters in big envelopes and both my rejections in regular envelopes. All in the US, but I think this commercial (and others, as well as movies and TV) always show acceptance letters in regular envelopes, even in the US. Not that it really matters, just something interesting I have noticed.

 

[SupremeC]

Well you are very perceptive. And the people making the advertisements obviously have never been accepted to business schools

 

[Babbler]

"You know, they don't let you chew gum there" .

 

[MjM]

Funny stuff

 

[Till]

From the ad, i learned there are two reasons to go to the NUS:
1. No chewing gum
2. Boys are cute

Maybe i'm not in the target group, but neither reason appeals to me.

 

[ThERat]

This advertisement is surely not meant to attract foreigners in particular, since they show it here all the time.

NUS has a problem that SMU is the better business university. hence the ad campaign. If they were that good that people reject other offers, then why do they need to put up such ads?

Do not believe those claims that NUS is world class. Life in SGP is very much about wayang (means to put up a great show, but not much substance).

University life in SGP is full of exams and assessments, assignments and what not. One Singaporean once told me that is done on purpose so that the youth wouldn't have the time to think about political and social issues. So, if you sign up here, don't tell me I didn't warn you

 

[Meleager]

What a pathetic ad.

 

[SupremeC]

Hmm SMU is unproven as it is approx. 5 years old so lets not debate on which is better. But it's true, the government here watches you like a hawk. Don't come here! Save yourselves!

 

[Mise]

Well you are very perceptive. And the people making the advertisements obviously have never been accepted to business schools

 

[funxus]

University life in SGP is full of exams and assessments, assignments and what not. One Singaporean once told me that is done on purpose so that the youth wouldn't have the time to think about political and social issues. So, if you sign up here, don't tell me I didn't warn you

Well, that ad sucked.

Still, I'm gonna apply for an exchange year soon, and this is one of the two I'm really interested in.

From the stories I've heard, students in Singapore spend more time studying than, in those cases, Swedish students, but usually that includes spending half the time on the phone with friends, so effectively it's about the same...

 

[7ronin]

I don't think I would attend a school which had to advertise. Usually the one's that do say send us $29.95 and we will send you a diploma.

 

[Meleager]

University advertisement is not common there? If I refused to attend universities that did not advertise then I would have no where to go.

 

[BCLG100]

You get uni acceptance over here in the same format and then an envelope from the uni a few days/weeks after. Either that or you can just look on the internet and it tells you sooner there

 

[Shaihulud]

Embarrassing and untrue. Private companies in Singapore unashamedly prefer to employ overseas graduate, therefore this ad is a gross misinterpretation. Singaporeans are exam smart, i will not put anyone from other countries against a Singaporean in an Exam, and NUS students are the epitome of this philosophy. NUS graduates have a reputation for being uninspired and lacking initiative, thats a very bad thing for a business grad...

 

[SupremeC]

Well, we didn't have advertisements, as there were only two universities here. Students were pretty much competing to get into these two and they didn't have to do much.

A few years back, a new one popped up. Since they didn't have a reputation like the others they resorted to marketing and PR. Somehow the others started jumping onto the bandwagon and now we have sucky ads like this. You must understand that they have never had these newfangled things around before so they aren't very good at it.

Funxus, students in Singapore study a lot. My teacher in secondary school, where we prepare students for GCSEs, suggested that we study from the moment we got home till midnight. School starts at 8am here and ends around 2pm. Meaning we are not expected to do anything other than study. That was way back when I was 16. I shudder to imagine university life. And I'll have to face that in August, after two mind rotting years as a conscript. How fun.