Just try , and try , and keep trying , if you really want the course , especially after the acceptance window closes . Appealing is free , and people do withdraw from courses after they are offered , like if they accept another university ' s offer . If you appeal , NUS might offer you those places . I have a batchmate who repeatedly appealed to NUS , some engineering course , until they finally offered him some time in July more than a month after the typical acceptance period closed , and barely a couple weeks from the start of the semester . <| sep |> Isn ' t there a max on the total caps he can carry ? <| sep |> Tokyo has been the biggest city in the world by several metrics for a couple decades , without succumbing to crippling pollution like China and still in tune with nature like you see in some of those photos . That ' s pretty easy when you ' re a small island nation and all your airborne pollution blows out to sea and into other countries . Edit since people are stupid as fuck , you ever notice how it ' s almost always windy at the coast ? Yeah , that ' s due to the temperature differential over land vs the ocean . So what happens when you have a small island nation ? There is very little stagnation , and pollution goes out over the sea , often into other countries .