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作者: leetai838 時間: 13-4-14 02:49 標題: delete
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作者: Walala99 時間: 13-4-14 15:28
Wow, that's impressive. How many get in Ivy?
作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-4-14 17:24
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It is great news indeed! Do you know if it is the same student or several different students? I think it was Princeton, Brown and Cornell.
作者: ANChan59 時間: 13-4-14 18:40
leetai838 發表於 13-4-14 02:49 
有Princeton, Cornell.....good news.
作者: tingtingting 時間: 13-4-15 11:11
本帖最後由 tingtingting 於 13-4-15 11:12 編輯
I'm more excited by the offers from Williams College (which still reigns as the lone No. 1 among all US liberal arts colleges) and Parsons School of Design (one of the most prestigious art and design universities in the world, probably more difficult to get in than Oxbridge).
By the way, seems that ISF students are more geared towards US universities (they take Explore, Plan, Pre-SAT, SAT and ACT, etc. in the upper grades, not IGCSE).
From ISF's latest circular:
"1.3 News from The University Guidance & Careers
Greetings from The University Guidance & Careers Department! For those of you who are familiar with the United States‟ college admissions policies, you will know that April 1 is of utmost importance for thousands of young people all over the world as this is the day that university offers come out!
It gives me great pleasure to provide you with an updated list of our university offers for The Class of 2013. We are extremely proud to announce some of the offers received include Princeton University, Brown University, Tufts University, Boston University, University of Southern California, Cornell University, Middlebury College, New York University, Pomona College, Williams College, Swarthmore College, Washington University of St. Louis, Mount Holyoke College, George Washington University, University of Washington Seattle, Parsons School of Design – among others. Please see <Appendix 1> for the most updated list of universities. Along with my colleagues in the Secondary School, we are most proud of the accomplishments of our young men and women, and I hope that you will share with me in congratulating them in these achievements! Now…on to the IB exams!"
作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-4-15 11:14
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Am familiar with the small liberal arts schools like Amherst and Williams but not the art ones. How does Parson compare with RISD?
作者: tingtingting 時間: 13-4-15 11:23
See Business Week's ranking of world design schools: http://worldranking.blogspot.hk/2009/06/best-design-schools.html
作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-4-15 11:41
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Thank you for pointing out Williams and Parson. They are indeed tougher to get in than some of the Ivies. Am excited to see kids applying to these different types of programs as opposed to just Ivy Leagues or brand name schools well recognized by HK parents. Hope these types of diversity continues. With these results, I also hope there will be less students transferring out.
作者: Shootastar 時間: 13-4-15 11:49
Congratulations to ISF kids. You are amazing.
作者: ANChan59 時間: 13-4-15 12:48
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Impressive results, keep up the good work.
Very best for the coming IBDP Exam.
作者: slamai 時間: 13-4-17 11:55
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That's impressive! How about UK universities?
作者: annie40 時間: 13-4-17 17:21
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The shcool and teachers work hard for the achievement too. What I heard is many teachers are having phD degree in upper school and the career consulants are excellent. I believe the results are getting better continuously.
作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-4-17 18:08
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I am not familiar with UK universities so will just work off of the Times 2013 rankings of top 10.
There are no Oxbridge but there are admissions to LSE, Durham, St Andrews, UCL, Warwick, Bath and Exeter and many are more than one admission (though of course not sure what the conditions of the offer are).
Do you know how does this stack up?
作者: slamai 時間: 13-4-17 18:30
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That's also impressive! The only point is that a bright student may receive multiple offers from top Us around the world. The next stage is to look at the actual U placement later this year.
作者: tingtingting 時間: 13-4-17 22:29 標題: 回覆：ISF 2013 graudates 入Ivy League
Not sure how true it is but am told that the majority of ISF students tend to prefer US colleges. (This is consistent with my own observation: most of the ISF parents I know are themselves graduates from US colleges and prefer US system.)
作者: ANChan59 時間: 13-4-17 23:44
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LSE, Durham, St Andrews, UCL, Warwick - Very top universities in UK.
作者: donut012 時間: 13-4-19 13:03
Is it possible that a few elite students got offers from these schools since they applied to all of them? I'm more interested in the actual university placements and not just offers.
Does anyone know how does this compare to CIS? My sister is planning to apply her kids to ISF and CIS and wants to know more! Thanks!
作者: annie40 時間: 13-4-19 15:18
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Oxbridge 相对是比较难入的,
近年行程是尖子喜欢去美国ivy leagues(钱是次要) , 因此一流一学生去左美国, 再者美国ivy leagues 有alumni legacy, 即阿爸阿妈是旧生, 孩子入学机会由5% 提升为25%, 你是父母自然飞身吧!
有妈妈好紧张问我点解佢间super IS 今年无一个入读HKU medicine, 系唔系我地考得差, 入唔到! 我话梗系唔系, 你个间的靓仔靓妹劲,志不在此, 认识两为高材生, 一个打算去德国读engineering, (将来要design飞机), 另一个要做astronaut , 这些孩子成绩再高, 也不是留港读医的人.
顺带一提, ISF & CIS 大量是美国ivy leagues alumni parents, 自然提高学生入学百分率, 其他家庭勿误解为是因为成绩好的必然现象来解读.
作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-4-19 15:32
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No one knows yet since the placements won't be finalized for a bit. I think many parents are also eager to find out.
作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-4-19 15:39
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I have heard the same comments before. Some of the schools doing well in placement is because of donation/connection and legacy. I don't have exact statistics but I suspect 10-25% of ISF families with at least one parent from an Ivy League school, especially if you include graduate and business schools.
作者: annie40 時間: 13-4-19 17:28
ISF 的第一年reults 只算是有交代. uni placements 反映部分事实, 不可作准,
如ISF 的总体方向正确, 三五年后成绩便见真章! 听闻小学已开始采留班和劝退政策, 家长们倒要多加关注!
作者: HKTHK 時間: 13-4-19 19:03
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Yes, the first class that went from beginning to end is only in G7 now. You are right about not being promoted, it is more common than I thought. I think bilingual immersion is great if the child can handle it, but it is certainly not for everyone. Some kids, especially the ones not talented in languages, really struggle.
作者: bobbycheung 時間: 13-4-19 23:41
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剛剛 "鵝" 完個女, 叫佢唔好太緊張. 只要盡力就OK, 若果最終只能入到間 2nd or 3rd tier 大學, 亦非 end of the world. 好多事業成功人仕, 亦非出身名校或國際一流大學. 在Oxbridge or Ivy League畢業, 可能會給你一個 head start, 但最終事業成功與否, 就要看其他條件是否配合, 例如人際關係, 專注努力, 運程際遇..............
作者: Shootastar 時間: 13-4-19 23:59
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I can' t agree with you more.
作者: littledook 時間: 13-4-20 12:18 標題: 回覆：ISF 2013 graudates 入Ivy League
No one from ISF will be attending Princeton this fall. Only HKIS, CIS, Island School and UWC
作者: Darth 時間: 13-4-20 13:01
本帖最後由 Darth 於 13-4-20 13:03 編輯
According to the school website, 50% of the 2012 graduates went to the UK, 23% stayed in HK and only 14% went to the US. This is a typical university destination/choice for local students of local families.
Interesting to see that the preference shifted to the US this year.
(May be still too early to say the "preference" since we do not know the whole picture yet as we still do not know the final destination of students)
Would it be that the US system actually favours IB students, that are usually more rounded and have wider range of talents? It can be seen with the choices like Williams and Parsons which are not what local parents would exactly like (probably some people have not even heard of them), but instead are good liberal arts school and design school respectively.
Local schools still focus on schools in the UK and HK, and particularly med school and law school, which mainly asks for high grades and do not give as much merits to other talents.
作者: ANChan59 時間: 13-4-20 14:14
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I am not 100% sure, but I know some students and parents prefer to have firm offers from US before IBDP exam. For UK and HK universities, most offers are conditional.
In my son's class, those got firm offers are more relax, only the students with conditional offers work a bit harder now.
作者: Darth 時間: 13-4-20 15:31
本帖最後由 Darth 於 13-4-20 15:32 編輯
If the reason is that firm offers are what they care, then would it be sad?
I am sure everyone wants firm offers. But what I was talking about is the actual interests of students. Offer from NYU would be very different from med school offer from HKU for instance. If someone is determined to be a doctor, would he consider a NYU math degree just because this US uni gives out early firm offers? Some of the very common combination of majors for local students would be say HKU med + CU law + UST finance. I would have thought, my goodness what kind of combination is that? Do you know what you want to be? What is your real interest? I would have thought that if someone is so keen on being a doctor, then he would choose medicine no matter what and if he cannot get into med school, then he should choose microbiology, biotechonology, etc which would certainly have chances to collaborate with medical field in the future.
What I was saying was, from the choice of university destinations, we can actually see how the students talent is and whether the school encourage diversity of interests. Getting offers from typical US uni is not that hard to be honest (except probably schools like ivy, standford, mit, etc). I would have thought that whoever got offers from Williams and Parsons can possibly get offers from Berkeley or NYU, depending on the program. I am glad that there are parents that give merits to students that have chose these schools.
PS I am not an ISF parent, in case anyone is wondering.
作者: tingtingting 時間: 13-4-20 15:55 標題: 引用：回復+Darth+的帖子
I+am+not+100%+sure,+b
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作者: cheng4b 時間: 13-4-20 22:00
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作者: annie40 時間: 13-4-22 14:57
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搅搅吓, D靓仔靓妹能否入ivy leagues 变成父母的教养成绩表. 是'众人皆醉我独醒', 得闲赠言大家, 唔单止你个女有益, 我地D发紧梦的, 也得益不少啊! Thank you.
D妹要紧张也没办法, 留意她的睡眠饮食, 多吃水果, 偶然明明睇到都要当睇唔到, 反正鹅得多,佢又话你唔明, 发老脾! 考完试心情反弹! 大家想定暑假去边处.
作者: bobbycheung 時間: 13-4-22 18:50
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其實我何嘗唔係發緊夢, 只不過係酒醉都有三分醒罷了. 你形容 "能否入ivy leagues" 變成"父母的教養成績表"又幾貼切喎. 有時我都諗吓, 究竟我夢想D細路入Oxbridge or Ivy League, 係唔係完全為佢地着想? 抑或係想令自己喺D親戚朋友面前威威? 諗落其實可能兩樣原因都有D. 
有時D父母仲緊張過D小朋友, 睇嚟大家都要留意睡眠飲食, 多吃水果. 
作者: bobbycheung 時間: 13-4-23 11:05
本帖最後由 bobbycheung 於 13-4-23 11:06 編輯
廣播處前副處長吳錫輝日前接受本報訪問，踢爆好友阿倫兒子的威水史，吳錫輝說：「兩個月前有朋友生日喺馬會擺咗六、七圍，阿倫、志偉、學友、阿叻都出席，我話我個仔係港大一級榮譽生，去年喺倫敦大學讀歐洲電影史，三十人考第二，阿倫聽到就問我：『你知唔知我個仔喺邊？佢喺Oxford interview，拔尖。』」
http://www.edu-kingdom.com/forum ... 4790&extra=page%3D1
哈哈, 他們不就是以孩子的成績, 令自己喺親戚朋友面前威威的最佳例子嗎?
不過咁, 孩子因自己嘅努力而考獲好成績, 又真係抵讚 
作者: annie40 時間: 13-4-23 14:46
Alan's son is alumni of South Island School.
读书认真努力, 是一个优化过程, 而考獲好成績,是能力和付出的认同, hooray, hooray.............是抵讚又抵洒命啊. Alan 应该大赞老婆.
Wishing your daughter everything good!!!
作者: bobbycheung 時間: 13-4-23 15:25
Thanks, Annie. Same to you!
I have already done my best to help my girl. Whether her results will ultimately meet her expectation or not, I have no regret. In any event, knowing how to handle and overcome failure or disappointment is itself an essential skill.
作者: 4eyesDad 時間: 13-6-15 14:44 標題: 回覆：bobbycheung 的帖子
Only an Interview at Oxford?
Why didn't he say he got an offer?
作者: ANChan59 時間: 13-6-15 15:51
本帖最後由 ANChan59 於 13-6-15 15:52 編輯
4eyesDad 發表於 13-6-15 14:44
Only an Interview at Oxford?
Why didn't he say he got an offer?
Yes, no offer finally.
But also an achievement.....
作者: sonicgina 時間: 13-6-26 19:34
Impressive
作者: Shootastar 時間: 13-6-26 23:22
Oxbridge interview about 75 to 80 percent of the applicants each year.
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