App UK state BS for Yr 10 in 13

tsangdcf

My daughter applies for UK state BS for Yr10 in Sep 13, any advice?  She is an average student in a good. not the top, girl school.
Heard that Wymondham College will interview students in Oct in HK,

Are there any parents know the details?

HKdevil

Pls call academic Asia for details, you should have policed by now really. Might have been too late. But you could ask the interviewer to grant u a interview still

HKdevil

I mean u should have applied by now

tsangdcf

HKdevil:

Thank you for your advice.  Yes! I have contacted the school directly 2 weeks ago and they replied that no place for Yr10 in Sep 13.  So i would like to try again if they come to HK for interviewing HK students.

tsangdcf

HKdevil:

I have checked with AA.  They replied that for the coming Oct 27~28 education exhibition, wymondham will not join.

HKdevil

Yes , but their teacher will still be in hk, u can ask to meet them. My elder daughter was late in applying last year but i wrote directly for an interview and now she is studying there.

tsangdcf

How can I do that? AA had refused my request!!!

tsangdcf

Did your girl apply through AA last year?

HKdevil

Yes they did,AA also told me so, but i asked the principle personally and directly

HKdevil

I got two girls studying there now

Tommy

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According to my own school search experience last year, almost all good ranked state boarding school do not enroll students for Year 10.  They always say the major intake is Year 7, Year 9 and Year 12.  However, you can still file your application and probably they will call you should there be an unexpected place.  By the way, you should act now!  Do not delay anymore.
Good luck to you.  

tsangdcf

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Thank you Tommy for your advice.  I believe your son is also studying in Wymondham, please kindly further advise how could i contact the Headteacher and request for an interview in HK?

Actually I have contacted almost every co-edu SB schools.  Wymondham, Sexey's, RAA & Hacherill & Cranbrokk replied no Yr 10 places.  I only have 3 replies as follows:
1. St george's (to be interview in UK in Dec)
2. Shaftesbury (interview in HK in Oct)
3. SRM ( test in HK school and to be interview in UK)

Please kindly comment how are these school doing?  Which one you would recommend? For the entrance test, can you advise what would be the contents and formats? Easy or difficult for average student in HK?

cmaggie

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My son is studing in Hockerill. When he applied Y10, the school also told me there was no place to him, but they keep him in waiting list.  It was nearly end of Aug, school told me there have a place for him.  So you need to ask them keep in waiting list and check with school when July & Aug.  Good luck!  

Tommy

tsangdcf 發表於 12-10-6 11:58
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Thank you Tommy for your advice.  I believe your son is also studying in Wymondha ...

In fact, all the names, email address as well as the telephone numbers of the senior staff working in Wymondham College were uploaded in their school website.  If you have seriously read their website, you must find it.
However, I don't suggest you go direct to the Head Teacher (Principal).  Firstly, the Principal will not come to Hong Kong for the admission interviews.  Two senior teaching staff will come instead.  Secondly, please do not mind I'm a very straight-forward person that, being a parent of Wymondham, I would expect our Principal focus on managing the school affairs rather than managing the candidates' parents.  

Furthermore, I don't think the crazy HK style 叩門 will work in Wymondham College.  The admission affairs In Wymondham College, I think it's the same in other UK schools, is led by the Admission Registrar.  All the applications must start from the Admission Registrar and go through a series of standard procedures.  Unlike the Hong Kong elite schools Principals who have absolute power to determine who's in and who's out, British people  set a very good and fair system in many aspects, including the admission policy.  They will adhere to the admission policy and the agreed priority in the selection process.  In case, there are two applicants carrying the same scores and same priority, they will do a lottery by authorized persons to decide which one to take.  Only those very exceptional cases, the Admission Registrar will make a proposal to the Principal and then he makes a final decision.  

So, in my opinion, meeting the Principal doesn't help too much.  The appropriate contact point should be the Admission Registrar.  I would suggest you keep contact with the Registrar and update your kid's information to them when he achieves any good results or performance.

I am so sorry that I really get sick of the HK crazy style 叩門.  I just want to protect the good system and tradition run by the British people.

By the way, my younger son will take part in an admission interview on 24th October and we are invited to attend another meeting regarding my elder son's affairs on 27th October conducted at AA.  You can test you luck anyway.


Tommy  

CPU1995

Two weeks ago, my son interviewed by a school headmaster of an independent school and the Registrar had not come to AA for admission interview.  So diff schools adopt diff practices.

tsangdcf

Thank you for all of your advice.
I just informed by Wymondham that they will offer an interview to my daughter during their visit to HK in late Oct.  Then, they will open a file first and if luckily a boarding place is open, they will inform us.  

This is better than none.  Pls kindly advise what will be about for the interview?

HKdevil

Congrate , how did h manage to get that interview?

tsangdcf

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just wrote email to reg. to follow up and they replied with interview time and said no entrance exam required.
But i have just received an offer from Dallam School.

Any comment on this school?

HKdevil

I dont know about this school , sorry.

Waui

Dallam School is actually a good school. Although its academic results weren't the best among other state boarding schools, it is improving RAPIDLY. For example, for the three years of IB they did, the first year was like 10% below average, then the second year was on average, and then the third year, it was about 10% ABOVE average. Moreover, all facilities are really new, and the environment is really nice.