Sorry for being naive. What is AP exam? Is it for entrance into US universities?
When do you intend to send your daughter to Y12 of UK schools? If you want her to go in.Sep 2016, you had better act now, since many top schools will have the entrance exam in Nov of the preceeding year.
You can get some idea of the schools by looking at the league tables, and then go to talk with some agents. No need to wait for the exhibitions, as many top schools will mot join these exhibitions. However please note that many top schools also do not go through the agents to recruit students.
As for fees fior UK secindary schools, the fees also varies and there are some boarding schools for which the school fees along is over HKD400,000.
If you go to agents to look for UK boarding schools, many of them will not charge you vecause they will get commission the schools.
Regarding guardian, you can still get your friend to act as guardian, because agent will not act as guardian but can refer guardian companies to you, and the guardian companies will charge you separately.
I don't have the answer whether it would be better to apply to a school through Agent or directly by yourself, as Agent usually will be ablr to provide to parents some add-on service, but then the school will have to pay commission to the Agent.
However I have asked some schools whether they would prefer me to apply to them directly or through Agent, and some suggest me to appky directly, and some are fine with either.
me n my mum applied uk girls boarding school through agent, the name is academic asia, its the best agent in hk, many student can get into very top boarding school such as harrow school
moira house girls school, my y12 n y13 uk girls boarding school, one if the top 100 boarding school in the uk, moho is famous for its business n econ n accounting, its a selective school which offers very good esl english ielts n business english support for hk students, the campus is located near the sea side with beautiful environment, i love moho so much, the teachers in moho are very nice n supportive to their students, i study in the uk uni after my uk gce a level, i graduated with first hon
hope this can help
feel free to pm me if u have sny questions about uk study
i m glad to offer help
i graduated from yew chung igcse in hk, then went to uk to study my y12 n y13, then get into uni