Tonbridge 的 conditional offer 捖笨

Choisumwong

My son got conditional offer from Tonbridge for year 9. Website says acceptance if passing entrance exam. At last  my son passed entrance exam with good grade, but was not accepted. 真捖笨 !!

Choisumwong

Thirdly some UK schools only want LS.

Choisumwong

Secondly, there are some connection between local and UK boarding school.

Choisumwong

Firstly I understand why traditional schools are so popular.

Choisumwong

I actually learned a lot from this lesson. Time is not wasted.

nintendo

香港的三大，現在對本地國際學校學生的水平係絕對的認同，英美加澳很多名牌大學，亦不會歧視香港的國際學校學生，部份名牌大學甚至很喜歡收香港的國際學校學生。
如果仍然有學校覺得香港的國際學校學生係 "次等"，我覺得係佢地走寶，這樣的眼光，不讀也罷。
恭喜樓主的小朋友有更好的 offer。

Choisumwong

I would feel much better if ' I am delighted to be able to offer a boarding place  in September 2014 upon SATISFACTORY performance in entrance examination.'

Choisumwong

The reason that I was angry is that '  I am delighted to able to offer him a boarding place for entry to Tonbridge in September 2014, conditional upon his PASSING his entrance examination' from the Headmaster's letter.
This is completely dishonest !!

peter_pan

回覆 Ruby1219 的帖子

Ruby,This is the first time I have heard of this, so I don't have any inside info!
But it is true that students from certain HK schools do congregate at certain UK schools - eg CLC has a high proportion of DGS girls for as long as I remember! This is partly because in years past, HK LS parents don"t have much connection in the UK so they get their info from other parents in their network (no Internet in those days). As these students performed well so the UK school built up confidence and developed preference to students from that HK school, it is only natural.
Tonbridge, in the past, took in a lot of SPCC boys, though their numbers are not so dominant these days with DBS & LS boys also getting a foothold in there. I don"t think it is right to set different entrance papers to different students, but at the end of the day, it is a misconception that schools only take those with highest marks in the exams. UK schools, & unis as well, frequently look at what else the student may contribute to school life other than academic excellence. Perhaps IS students are too similar to the UK students and they want different characteristics to compliment the student mix?

Ruby1219

I am the one who 中了招！只報了兩間，仲要係year 10!

Choisumwong

其實好好彩，問過幾個家長，一早就發現Tonbridge的conditional offer是假嘢。幫阿仔報多兩間學校。所以報學校不只看排名，school website，school visit。個人意見及經歷也很重要！

happypapa

I don't understand why the priorities should be given to hong kong local school if they aim at UK school.  

Ruby1219

回覆 peter_pan 的帖子

peter_pan,
what's your viewpoint in this issue? would love to know.

thanks

peter_pan

回覆 lottieclee 的帖子

I think they are talking about priorities given to students from Hong Kong local schools (eg SPCC, DGS, DBS) over those from Hong Kong international schools (eg ESF, FIS, GSIS), NOT priorities given to UK local students over HK students.

Choisumwong

回覆 lottieclee 的帖子

I don't think the admin work is less. I visited the school too. My son is also Hongkonger. The agent is also very bad and wouldn't tell you the truth.

lottieclee

Priorities are always given to locals.  Less admin work and have met parents during school visit.  你係香港學校都想佢收咗香港人先啦！

Besides, it's always better not to go through agents.

Choisumwong

我唔順氣是因為學校選擇學生原來一早定了，那為什麼不寫清楚？浪費他人的時間！還好意思說今年競爭很激列，費話！!

Ruby1219

no one told us we can ask for the high level paper.  I did not know there are two papers before we took the exam.  we were very upset when we got the result,  but now 回心一諗， 當我阿Q, maybe this is 天意/緣分，if the school strongly prefers LS students,  my son really may not be their cup of tea,  as he has been studying in IS since pre school.  he might have serious hard time competing with the LS elite students there in UK top schools.

Btw,  反而 Charterhouse asked the students if they are native in English so to give them higher level English paper!  I did not know the "trick" when filling out the application form though, and made the mistake of letting my son did higher level English paper and lower level Math paper, while his capabilities in these subjects are actually the other way round (I.e. strong in Math,  weaker in English)

happypapa

曾經向agent 要求考較深那份數學卷，但agent 話國際學校學生只可考較淺那份。都未考又知國際學生數學吾掂？