UEM Scholarship Awards 2010

[X-FaR]

the result will open soon http://202.162.26.140/uem/scholarship/

[acgerlok7]

another "regret...unsucceesful."..exactly same thing as khazanah...lol

[Dominic]

me too...how disappointing...

[yin2000]

mine also regret, unsuccessful :(

[X-FaR]

Alhamdulillah.... Give thanks to ALLAH (God)...

"Shorlisted For Stage One"

but the problem is.. I dont know where the is the stage one will be held and what is it?

I hope seniors will clarify and describe more about this UEM scholarship interview and how many stage ?

[chiawei]

Hey there,I forgot the ID number? So how it is?

[candelifera]

Mine's unsuccessful too. Dang.

[X-FaR]

Hey there,I forgot the ID number? So how it is?

owh.. try to email or contact them

scholarship.info@<hidden> or contact +603 2727 6851 / 6839/ 6850/ 6847.

[Nicholasng925]

Mine is unsuccessful as well. :(

[alter_ego]

regret, unsuccessful T.T

[acgerlok7]

hmm...lets not be disapointed by th rejection...=)btw...i heard its very very hard oso to get shortlisted for this scholarship...as i tink oni abt a mere 50 ppl got shortlisted....we cucd do well for our pre-university then try to apply for other scholarships again...=D

[BattleBoyz]

I heard it is hard to get too and I think the scholarship stages will be almost the same as others.

By the way, i'm also rejected but... cheers! :P

[drgoim2be]

mine too~
regret,unsuccessful..
huhuh..how disapointingg..
btw,
congrats to x-far.
u r so lucky :)

[X-FaR]

mine too~
regret,unsuccessful..
huhuh..how disapointingg..
btw,
congrats to x-far.
u r so lucky :)

thanks.. im still in shock... after being rejected for 3 times, i still manage to get shortlisted for uem..

the problem now is i havent receive any call and email from UEM and i didnt know anything about the details of the stage one and the process of selection...

i hope seniors that have been shortlisted before can guide help me with this problems..

[Wkks]

Regret, Unsuccessful for UEM

[terencegreen]

ppl..cn i n0e the f0rmat 0f the id..i'm kind 0f messed up..it says invalid id l0r..help3..

[makeHimproud]

how are we going to check our status of application btw? the link provided doesnt give any clue about it

[terencegreen]

how are we going to check our status of application btw? the link provided doesnt give any clue about it

g0 n click review applicati0n..btw..hws the f0rmat 0d ur id pliz..

[X-FaR]

g0 n click review applicati0n..btw..hws the f0rmat 0d ur id pliz..

UEM_xxxxx , x=number

[makeHimproud]

oh yes, first rejection so far. sobs3. good luck X-far!

[X-FaR]

oh yes, first rejection so far. sobs3. good luck X-far!

thanks.. even i get shortlisted for the first stage.. but i still did not get any email or call from UEM... is this means i am shortlisted or not?

i have try to call them but no one pickup the phone (mayB holiday)

have to wait for tomorrow..

[Boyz_Zoo]

C'est la vie. (That's life) You will nvr get everything that you want in life though u think that u deserve them. That's how life goes around. KYUEM scholarship is not easy to get. The number of scholars that actually gets the scholarship is very small compared to JPA, MARA, PETRONAS, etc.

Therefore, don't think so much of the scholarship that have rejected you and focus on the 1s that hv called u for an interview. If everything dun work out, maybe you are fated to study without those scholarship. Either way, with preservance, you can succeed in life.

Life without scholarship is not the END!!!

[terencegreen]

UEM_xxxxx , x=number

tanx x-far...regret,unsuccesfull..haiz..5th unsuccesfull..nw 0ni hav jpa in my hand..dun n0e wat 2 say if din get tat 0so..btw c0ngratz x-far..

[makeHimproud]

Life without scholarship is not the END!!!

Yes! That is scarily true! It is not the end of the world if you don't get scholarships from any corporations:huh. What matters most is your determination and hardwork to achieve your goals

[X-FaR]

thanks.. even i get shortlisted for the first stage.. but i still did not get any email or call from UEM... is this means i am shortlisted or not?

i have try to call them but no one pickup the phone (mayB holiday)

have to wait for tomorrow..

i just received a call from UEM while waiting my turn on MARA interview today...

below is the the details :-

Dear Candidate,

On behalf of UEM Group Berhad, we are pleased to inform that you have been short-listed to attend Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the UEM Scholarship 2010 selection process.

Details of your Stage 1 session are as follows:

Date : 19 April 2010 (Monday)
Time : 9.00am

[xenon96]

regret....unsuccessful....:(

[AtiPuspa]

gud luck & all the best fr those who're chosen.
u'r sure the lucky ones.
ngee~ :)

but still, another unsuccessful fr me.
sigh~ -____-

[Adrian92]

same..regret,unsuccessful..haiz...

[Boyz_Zoo]

A very long text that advices ur all about scholarships. At least with that, you might not be very disappointed. Gud Luck in reading it. hehe

Thank y'all listeners for tuning in to Recom.fm. It's time for another segment of Glassy's Pep Talks™! Today, Big Sister Glassy will discuss the dreadful issue of scholarships, all the stress that comes with applying for one, and how to overcome or avoid suicidal feelings upon *touches wood* rejection.

Introduction: The cold, hard facts
The very first thing I need to stress is that for every one scholarship position there is out there, there are likely 10 applicants vying for a place. Simple logic would explain that the nine other applicants would be rejected. And that kid could be you. Could be the bright bespectacled nerd who had his turn of interview right after you. Could be the mousy girl who suffered a nervous breakdown at the corner of the waiting room. Could be anyone, really.

Not Good Enough™, Better Than You™
The point is, scholarship applications are an incredibly brutal process. Definitely lots more people are going to get rejected than get accepted. Even students with a dozen A1's, 60 co-curricular certificates and stunning interview charm and charisma have been known to be slapped with a rejection letter after two agonizing weeks of waiting. We can only speculate what goes on in the selection committee's minds!

Getting a scholarship, as I have said before countless times, is always a bit of a lottery. At this stage where all the top students are battling their guts out for a small amount of scholarships, if you get rejected, it probably doesn't mean you submitted a crappy application or were underqualified. It just means that there were people who were just Better Than You™. It happens everywhere, so please don't beat yourself up about it. You're still the brilliant overachieving straight A's student which you were and getting rejected from a few scholarships will not change that. Your rejections are also not an accurate gauge of your worth as a student and applicant either, so please don't think you're worthless or anything of that nature.

The Backup: Cushioning the Rejection
Given the unfavourable applicant : scholarship ratio, one should never put in an application thinking that he's going to be successful or almost guaranteed to get one. It is also unwise to making your future plans dependent on getting a scholarship, which is what most applicants tend to do. They tend to say "okay, when I get my scholarship I'm going to go to P College for my Q pre-university course, and then fly off to country R to do my degree in S." And when their rejection letter arrives they are suddenly at a loss because they have no idea what to do.

Please take some time to map out a backup plan in the event that you *touches wood* don't get the scholarship you covet for. If you do get rejected, the shock won't hit you as badly as you will already know your next course of action. You can then take your time to get over the rejection without the added stress of figuring out what to do next. You'll basically have gotten one burden out of the way. =)

Broaden your mind
I will now make what is likely to be the most controversial statement ever uttered in Recom history: There is more to life than scholarships! *Expects the quote to make headlines in the papers the next day*

If I may steal a tiny bit of airtime to make a small lament, Malaysians are brainwashed into thinking that scholarships are the be-all-and-end-all. Well, they're not! Back in secondary school, one of my Form Five teachers preached on and on about JPA scholarships and basically implied that everyone HAD to get a scholarship or their future would essentially be screwed and they would have absolutely no chance of studying overseas. In retrospect it probably worked to a good extent, as everyone in my class made a frantic grapple for scholarships right after that.

When I got an offer from a rather prestigious university to study a pretty competitive course and told some relatives about it, the first thing they'd ask, without fail, was: "Did you get a scholarship?" I said no, I was rejected by JPA and every other organization I applied to and they replied with a monotonous, polite "Oh." and looked away. One even pursed his lips disapprovingly. To them, it didn't matter if I gained admission into a decent school like Oxford or a crappy one like Oxford Brookes, as my university was irrelevant; if I didn't have a scholarship I was branded a loser.

The reason why I am saying all this is to show you guys exactly how ridiculous this mad rush for scholarships can be, to the point of missing the bigger picture. A scholarship will be good [and convenient] to have, but it's not the end of your life if you don't get it. Complaining about rejection is essentially akin to buying a lottery ticket and then crying when your numbers don't match the weekly lotto draw. I'm saying relax, chill, broaden your mind to the countless other paths you can take. If you really want to study overseas, there are so many other avenues you could try.

Every cloud has a silver lining
Believe it or not, not getting a scholarship could well be a good thing! Well, for me, it was.

Back during my batch's year, JPA only offered Law for Australia. While I personally preferred going to the UK, I applied for it anyway due to financial woes.

Rejected without interview because I was a science stream student applying for an "Arts" course, and I didn't have a single extra Arts subject in my SPM lineup . Great. After that rejection I had to endure a week of flak for "being lazy" and not taking up any extra subjects when I had the chance to.

But I moved on. Family shelled out money for A levels in a private college. Got a conditional offer from a UK university I wanted, and as luck would conveniently have it, just as I was about to head off to university, JPA chose that particular time to roll out that Ivy League scholarship program. I thus found myself being sponsored to go to a country which I wanted, and this would not have happened had I been accepted into JPA's PILN as I would have been restricted to apply to Aussie unis. It was truly a miracle.

What I'm try to say is, sometimes things happen for a reason. A misfortune today may well be a blessing in disguise for tomorrow. When a door closes in your face, it means that somewhere out there, another has opened. So you can either wail and bang the closed door with your fists until they bleed, or you can start looking for that other open door. Don't give up, and keep telling yourself that there's a better opportunity waiting for you elsewhere.

One day when you're all successful and rich, you'll look back and laugh at yourself for kicking up such a fuss because JPA didn't want you in their PILN program. And you'll say to yourself: "I wouldn't have gotten here if it wasn't for everything that happened!"

Conclusion
For those of you who are unfortunate enough to suffer from ADD and are thus unable to follow the entire program, here's a nifty little summary for you:
1. Competition for scholarships is tight and chances are, people are going to get rejected since there are not enough scholarships to go around.

2. If you get rejected, it doesn't mean that you're worthless. It either just means that there were other candidates who were preferred, or that you simply lost the lottery when they had to select from several equal-standing candidates.

3. Please make backup plans in the event that your applications are not successful so you will at least have a rough idea of what you want/are going to do if the worst happens.

4. There's a lot more to life than getting scholarships. Getting fixated with JPA, Petronas, Khazanah and Shell scholarships is unhealthy but this syndrome can easily be remedied by going out and socializing with friends, or a healthy dose of ice-cream, preferably Baskin & Robbin's chocolate chip cookie dough flavour for best effects.

5. If you don't get a scholarship, don't fret because there are tons of other paths waiting for you to try. Your rejection today might be a blessing in disguise. It is far too early to tell now.

[I]All right folks, that's all for today's installment! Tune in tomorrow, same time, same station for another episode of Glassy's Pep Talk™! Cheerio!

[[Serious note: I am aware that there is another topic addressing scholarship rejections in this board, but it appears that the discussion is more focused on specific routes and courses of action to take should one really fail in his application. In any event, I did have quite a bit to say, and felt that this post should best be placed in a fresh new topic, but the mods should have the final say should they wish to merge topics. Cheers! *bows out*]]

[acgerlok7]

bravo...boyz_zoo...thks...i read this article once...now read once more...rly cheer me up...yeah...i tink tht maby i shud not be too sad...coz no matter how sad am i...th scholarship won't fly to me...so better i do something practical.:)

[X-FaR]

sory if i late to share my experience...

read it here (http://5sysc3.blogspot.com/2010/05/uem-group-scholarship-2010-experience.html)

sory if i late to share my experience...

read it here (http://5sysc3.blogspot.com/2010/05/uem-group-scholarship-2010-experience.html)

The new format just like this:

First Stage : Assessments Test
Second Stage : Essay + Interview (Manager Yayasan UEM)
Final Stage : Interview (BOD UEM)

*Good luck for the future applicants...

[ara]

so did anyone manage to secure this scholarship????????????? heheheheh

[fird126]

so did anyone manage to secure this scholarship????????????? heheheheh

yeah. some of my friends got it. uem only took 3 applicants for the full scholarship until they finished their degree. and a few others a-lvls scholarship.

[X-FaR]

yeah. some of my friends got it. uem only took 3 applicants for the full scholarship until they finished their degree. and a few others a-lvls scholarship.

Yup.. two girls and a boy.. one half-scholarship which is just for A-level..

Can I know which one is your friends? Are they from MCKK too?

[fird126]

Yup.. two girls and a boy.. one half-scholarship which is just for A-level..

Can I know which one is your friends? Are they from MCKK too?

a friend of mine from SSP, Cyberjaya secured the full scholarship and another friend from STF, Johor Bahru got the a-lvls one.

[X-FaR]

a friend of mine from SSP, Cyberjaya secured the full scholarship and another friend from STF, Johor Bahru got the a-lvls one.

ooo ic.. one of my friend from DAM, Kota Bharu also secured the full scholarship and he also still survived for the Khazanah Third Stage that will be held on 14 May , and date to reply the UEM offer is on 12 May...

[herm]

yeah. some of my friends got it. uem only took 3 applicants for the full scholarship until they finished their degree. and a few others a-lvls scholarship.

May I know what courses your friends and others get for UEM scholarship? Is pharmacy one of the courses that can be applied for this year?

Thanks.

[fird126]

May I know what courses your friends and others get for UEM scholarship? Is pharmacy one of the courses that can be applied for this year?

Thanks.

accountancy and engineering.

[X-FaR]

accountancy and engineering.

erm.. my friend from DAM also engineering...

maybe UEM wants more engineers this year...

[acgerlok7]

erm.. my friend from DAM also engineering...

maybe UEM wants more engineers this year...

HEy X-FaR...wat topics u were given on the essay topic?woah...this scholarship seems so hard to get..oni 2 ppl full scholarship it seems...so means lyk ur fren whu got half-scholarship...hv to seek for another scholarship again rite after he finishes his A-level in KYUEM?

[X-FaR]

HEy X-FaR...wat topics u were given on the essay topic?woah...this scholarship seems so hard to get..oni 2 ppl full scholarship it seems...so means lyk ur fren whu got half-scholarship...hv to seek for another scholarship again rite after he finishes his A-level in KYUEM?

my essay was about does genetic factor makes other races smarter or it is based on the hard boil.. agree or not (something like that : I already forgot the topic)..

As I know from my friends only 3 ppl secured full scholarship and few of them half-scholarship which is just for A-level.. and maybe the ones who get half-scholarship need to find another sponsor for degree or just use their own money..

[acgerlok7]

Owh its ok...omg..seems like super hard man the essay...i doubt i will make it thto thou even thou i'm shortlisted..and wow..for the half-scholarship..they hv to find their another sponsor after A-Levels...-_-..dats quite troublesome eh...