JULY 27 — I refer to Wee Ka Siong’s statement that “the MCA has been helping top scorers get into university for years and does not only concentrate on helping the children of its members as alleged by certain quarters.” (The Star, July 26).
I completed my STPM in 2007, obtaining results of 2As and 2A-s for a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.83 in February 2008. My co-curricular score was 92.5 out of 100.
I submitted my online application for public university placement, and hoped for the best. When the results were released in June, I was utterly dumbfounded to discover there was no record of my application.
I tried contacting the administrators, but to no avail as I did not have the printout indicating the completion of the application process.
I was not even able to submit an appeal to the Ministry of Higher Education as there was no application to appeal on. It was like I did not even take the exam.
Out of desperation, I sent several letters of appeal to all avenues I could think of. The MCA was one of them. I only received a single e-mail response from them which was to submit the appeal forms to their office. After that, silence.
My appeal was rejected. I was not offered a place in a Malaysian public university for any course, after several months of running around, filling forms, calling numbers that don’t work, holding for long lengths of time and waiting desperately for a favourable reply.
These two letters I sent to several news agencies contain more details of my ordeal:
1. Appeal after appeal but still no entry to uni
2. No record of my university application?
I was actually accepted into the National University of Singapore (NUS) before I received my STPM results, but as I was not able to afford it I opted to enter Malaysian public university. All that is now long past as I have graduated from NUS with several loans on my back.
Please don’t insult those who, owing to the failure of the Malaysian government, have to give up hope of studying in Malaysian public universities and seek education elsewhere.
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