blurcheryl
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- 1 Dec 2009
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Hi ekoy,
No, it's never too late. Thanks for your wish. We still need the luck IF we pass the test
If I remember correctly, you're one of the scholars of the previous batch. So, how are you doing in japan?
This might be a little late, but, GOOD LUCK everyone! ^^v
hi all;
i have a question, the japanese embassy mentioned that i should not contact any professors before i pass the first screening, but all around the net ppl saying that there will be no time to contact them after the embassy tells us to.
so do u think i should contact professors anyway or not??
Say if you've obtained a favorable consent from the first professor whom you've contacted, do you still move on contacting the second, third and so on..you know, just in case?Yup, I would recommend contacting some professors and getting a feel for them. It helps in your interview if you can say that you have someone interested in taking you on, and if you get the recommendation, there's significantly less time to get to know professors and get an okay from them.
Good luck everybody!!
Yup, I would recommend contacting some professors and getting a feel for them. It helps in your interview if you can say that you have someone interested in taking you on, and if you get the recommendation, there's significantly less time to get to know professors and get an okay from them.
Good luck everybody!!
Yeah my portfolio is fairly broad as well but the university recommendation process requires portfolio submission as well as research proposal in order to get a recommendation. I was going to apply via the embassy, but I will traveling internationally during the time period in which they do interviews so I figured the university rec would make more sense. Your research project relative to japanese minka houses sounds great & good luck wrapping up the proposal before the july 2 deadline!! My research deals w/ architecture in relation to hyperdense conditions, thus tokyo is ideal & I'm really excited about the faculty at Titech - they also have a history dept. if you're interested! Titech doesn't require portfolio submission/research proposal until november in order to make their deadlines, which I believe are at the end of December, with applicants being notified in June. If your embassy recommendation doesn't work out, I imagine you could also apply for uni recommendation as well since the deadline is later. Have you contacted any professors yet? I'm still working on my proposal... There is a sampling of architecture grad projects from different unis online at the Japanese Architecture Institute's website (Kanto-Koshinetsu area). Good luck!to architek:
hi, i'm glad to hear that i'm not alone in thismmm, yeah, i don't think i can include my portfolio since it has no relation whatsoever with what i want to study. since i finished a general architecture course, we did pretty much of everything, so i can't say i'm actually 'specialized' in something. My research will be about traditional architecture, more specifically, a comparison between the traditional architecture of my own country and the japanese minka houses. There are certain similarities that I want to emphasize, similarities that come in my opinion from the common sense of every person who is conscious about his surroundings. So, i guess the field would be Architectural history and architectural planning, or somewhere close, because the implications of the research extend beyond planning.
I have a few doubts of my own regarding the selection procedure, and i'm a little scared since my graduation project (i had a racecourse rehabilitation and modernization project) wasn't related to my current field of research..In my country the applications will close on july 2nd and now i'm still working on my research plan and trying to gather all the papers, which is a little difficult since my job keeps me at the studio from 9 am to 9 pm...
have you already started to contact professors from titech? or since it's an university's recommendation your university will contact them for you?
Yeah my portfolio is fairly broad as well but the university recommendation process requires portfolio submission as well as research proposal in order to get a recommendation. I was going to apply via the embassy, but I will traveling internationally during the time period in which they do interviews so I figured the university rec would make more sense. Your research project relative to japanese minka houses sounds great & good luck wrapping up the proposal before the july 2 deadline!! My research deals w/ architecture in relation to hyperdense conditions, thus tokyo is ideal & I'm really excited about the faculty at Titech - they also have a history dept. if you're interested! Titech doesn't require portfolio submission/research proposal until november in order to make their deadlines, which I believe are at the end of December, with applicants being notified in June. If your embassy recommendation doesn't work out, I imagine you could also apply for uni recommendation as well since the deadline is later. Have you contacted any professors yet? I'm still working on my proposal... There is a sampling of architecture grad projects from different unis online at the Japanese Architecture Institute's website (Kanto-Koshinetsu area). Good luck!
I've noticed that some of you guys are confused about what University Recommendation is. Univeristy recommendation is when you get accepted by the Japanese University you want/plan to attend either by:
1. [officially] by passing their entrance exam and getting admitted,
2. [officially] going by the application procedure and getting admitted,
3. [unofficially] or getting some sort of acceptance by one of their faculty.
The Japanese university and/or Japanese professor then sends your application to MEXT directly with their stamp of approval (recommendation). It has nothing to do with your domestic university.
Also there's a completely different thread about that.
I have did a search through the thread, but I didn't get my answer.
The questions I have is, MEXT requires that you have a 16-year curriculum, but when filling out the application, you have to count years and months. After adding up the years and months, I ended up with 12year and 2months (I finished Underg. in three years, instead of four). Is that... okay? Should I just count the years -ignoring summer vacation- and put down 15 year? I am confused and the embassy has not been answering their phone? :?
any help would be appreciated!
I have did a search through the thread, but I didn't get my answer.
The questions I have is, MEXT requires that you have a 16-year curriculum, but when filling out the application, you have to count years and months. After adding up the years and months, I ended up with 12year and 2months (I finished Underg. in three years, instead of four). Is that... okay? Should I just count the years -ignoring summer vacation- and put down 15 year? I am confused and the embassy has not been answering their phone? :?
any help would be appreciated!
12 years? So you can become a student after only 9 years of education? Maybe you misunderstood something?
It should look something like this (EXAMPLE!):
6 years of elementary school
6 years at gymnasium
4 years at university
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16 years
if you have finished 3-year college then you have 15 years of education, however, my advice is: contact Japanese university that you're interested in, embassy will not help you with this and probably will not know the answers coz it all depends on Japanese university...
plus, eligibility varies a lot between the programs, the best thing is to contact one of the professors at their university, you will get all the answers you're looking for, i'm sure!
I understand that, but in the application form they ask for years & months of attendance. For example, I studied abroad for a year, started 9/2004 and finished 6/2005 and that's 0year 10months. I've counted the rest the same way, excluding summer vacation. another example: started university 9/2007 and is going to finish 6/2010. That would be 2years and 10months.
Should I just ignore months and put down a whole year? :?
Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I haven't finished a 3-year college, I've finished 4-year college in 3 years. I am not asking about the number of years, I'm asking about the application... they ask for years and months of attendance and that doesn't add up to 15/16 years.
yes, if you entered some school for example 2001. and finished it 2005. (just an example), you didn't sign off from that school during the summer, so it's 4 years of education...as far as i know...
hmm well you did asked about years/monthslike i said...it would be best to contact university of your choice and ask them about application requirements, that's what i did...
well...no matter how you're applying (embassy/uni) you can contact uni to ask, i think that info from them would be the best info...
i saw some applications like yours yes, and you're question is a good question, but usually they put:
required time to finish and time that you needed to finish it, and at the bottom __years and __months, and now, actually, you confused me with this...but it definitely can't be like that, coz if we count all schooling years like that we get 12 years of schooling instead of 15 or 16....
:S
whoops! Sorry for confusing you, that wasn't my intention! But hey, at least you know how I feel at the moment
Thank you. I've decided to go ahead and put down the number of years without the months so I can get my 15 years. I wish there was more help online for filling out the application
Yeah I was confused about the years and months thing as well. I just put down years except for high school, which I finished early, but by less than a year. Don't forget to write in the 4th column that you finished in 3 years instead of 4.