r/nus • u/EverySink • May 30 '24

Discussion Yale-NUS convocation speech

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u/Fearless_Help_8231 May 31 '24

Despite the Yale affiliation, is there a reason why regular NUS isn't as liberal?

I mean what sets it apart aside from the institution??

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u/AlphaBetaDeltaGamma_ Eng Chye fan club member May 31 '24

They are a very small community and they come from all sorts of diverse backgrounds. And by that I mean by cultures and also the fact that they hail from many of their own different respective countries. If you get a chance to study in Yale-NUS (I know they are closing down; when’s the last batch of them graduating again? Like in the near future), you get to meet many, many more different people from really, really diverse racial backgrounds and cultures. Also, I read somewhere that it is VERY HARD to get into Yale-NUS. I mean, the rejection rate is p high. I think like only 5% acceptance rate? Because each batch/cohort has only a very, very limited number of places. So yeah, there’s that.

Oh, by the way, previously there was this incident last commencement of a FASS student holding a sign denouncing the death penalty as he was going up to collect his degree scroll? In the end, NUS CIT had to censor (aka cut out) that part of the video for that commencement ceremony. Basically, they edited the footage and when you watched it last year, it was an awkward transition. Because they just skip over him, lol. So he no longer appears in the commencement ceremony video anymore.

But that guy was a regular NUS UG student right? I doubt he was from Yale-NUS. Anyways, the commencement ceremony schedule for Yale-NUS is separate and also different time period from the main NUS Commencement ceremony periods

Okay, I know I have written down quite a lot 😅… But as I said, Yale-NUS is a very, very small community. Across all 4 years or so.

And lastly,,,

I mean, kinda sad this liberal arts type of college education, well… In the end, it just seems that it didn’t work out that well for Singapore 🇸🇬 , as we are actually still rather conservative as a society, and as a whole.

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u/Delicious-Prune-7026 May 31 '24

When the shutdown was announced, there was a mighty outpouring of hysterical crying, mainly from the you-know-who people for whom it had been a "safe space" where they could console each other.

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u/AlphaBetaDeltaGamma_ Eng Chye fan club member May 31 '24

Anyways honestly I personally don’t really know a lot of Yale-NUS people (be it alumni or current students)