ESF Schools: school fee & exam result

matthewdad

The league chart cannot reflect the actual situation. I give you another example. A school called Charterhouse which rank 76 (but it is top 10 in England) in the chart with admission rate to Oxbridge is 13%
http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/Academic/University-destinations-2008.asp because all all the good schools are taking IGCSE and Cambridge pre-U course: http://www.cie.org.uk/qualifications/academic/uppersec/preu/index_html

原帖由 thankful 於 09-7-25 21:10 發表
I searched and found on the internet that this is King's College School, Wimbledon ("KCS").

http://www.kcs.org.uk/index.php

According to the website "Best-Schools.co.uk", this school ranked No.3 in  ...

[ 本帖最後由 matthewdad 於 09-7-27 11:03 編輯 ]

matthewdad

I agreed your calculation but I think (not sure??) they should take into consideration of other factors which is not entirely on acedemic performance. e.g Wa Yan is much better than DBS/LSC in terms of acedemic performance but DBS/LSC is always considered as traditional elite school in Kowloon.

I am thinking "Should we send kids to those higher standard schools in England at Grade 15 or 17  in order to have better chance to get into good university?"

原帖由 thankful 於 09-7-27 11:07 發表
I see.  But I wonder how many students of King's College School took IB in 2009.  36 of them manage to go to Oxbridge and it seems a lot.  I found in the school's website that there were 124 students  ...

[ 本帖最後由 matthewdad 於 09-7-30 08:45 編輯 ]