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HLME

Lets share a bit personal experience on admission

1. Harrow looks for kids who are favour in english speaking. As they don't want to spend a huge team to do admission interview like St. Paul or DGS , they usually pick up kids who r studying in international kindergarten like ESF and holding overseas passport

2. British likes n pays high attention to hardworking kids like hk education system 20 years ago. Kids with more certificates, charity or performance experience will be helpful.

HLME

3. They rarely pay attention to referral letters or referee with special social status. It may induce a bad impression to British as it creates unfairness.

4. School vision "leadership for a better world" they may consider parents background on" leadership, contribution to the world," instead of wealth, career position and the referees (except national chief executive level I guess haha )

5. Always handin updated certs by hand to show sincerity.

HLME

About school fee:
1. The price is in average among other int. schools in hk. Cheaper than HKIS, CIS and YCIS etc...
2. Because it's price including over 30 enrichment programs for students to learn like cricket, swimming, science club, football, Chinese painting etc, most of them are free of charge. Parents absolutely need not pay extra to look for teachers outside school. Their teachers are very high standard indeed.
3. They include 4 meals a day.

HLME

本帖最後由 HLME 於 17-9-30 21:44 編輯

4. The reason why harrow could be sustainable with higher standard of teaching quality but with similar fee among top Int Sch is .... they only need to pay $1 for rent.
5. Whenever one joins sch tour, one will understand what exactly happens. I was created a wrong perception abt harrow like everyone did.
6. As long as kid lives nearby, it is more favourable. The location is very far to many parents. Plus fee on school bus, the total expense is various.

HLME

dada1010 發表於 17-9-22 08:12
就算比得起$，交左表都未必有得interview。唔知佢地點選人...家長背景？居住地點？

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Joined or re-join the school tour in "a year just before admission.".
I believe living near school is one of the strong reason to be picked up for interview. It creates  less traffic congestion at roundabout downhill

dada1010

HLME 發表於 17-9-30 10:09
Lets share a bit personal experience on admission

1. Harrow looks for the kids who are favour in e ...

本帖最後由 dada1010 於 17-9-30 10:42 編輯


Thanks a lot.The information is very useful. Is your kid studying in harrow ?

I had just handed in the application. However I don't hold any foreign passport and my child is just studying in an english kindergarten. Just a point that i match is location. I live in Yuen Long and it's not far away from Tuen Mun and my child could speak english fluently.

Seems the chance is very slim...

dada1010

HLME 發表於 17-9-30 10:09
Lets share a bit personal experience on admission

1. Harrow looks for the kids who are favour in e ...

Do you know how is the chinese level in harrow? How often do they have chinese lesson?

Thanks

964000

HLME 發表於 17-9-30 10:11
3. They rarely pay attention to referral letters from other ppl with special social status. It may i ...

I really appreciate point no 3, and I think this is one of the essence to define a real international school. It's the difference between Chinese and western culture where the Chinese always believe in " 識人好過識字" when getting a school offer and they don't believe in their kids. It's funny when we got an offer from a so called hard-to-get-in IS, at least a few local parents have asked me " Did you know someone there?" Honestly I found this quite rude indeed and I think this has been so deeply ingrained in the Chinese culture.

HLME

dada1010 發表於 17-9-30 10:50
Do you know how is the chinese level in harrow? How often do they have chinese lesson?

Thanks

Chinese is not really comprehensive. They hv only 4 lessons per week. Some local families found tutorial ...but Spanish n French r also selective 2nd languages.

HLME

dada1010 發表於 17-9-30 10:39
本帖最後由 dada1010 於 17-9-30 10:43 編輯

本帖最後由 dada1010 於 17-9-30 10:42 編輯

Yes. HKSAR passport is fine

Ruby1219

964000 發表於 17-9-30 18:45
I really appreciate point no 3, and I think this is one of the essence to define a real internation ...

agreed!! i got this kind of response many times too when my son was studying in a sought-after int’l school in HK. I don’t appreciate this kind of comments too, I always say to my boy, u should feel proud instead of inferior to your school mates as u got in and survive in this “elite” school all by your own calibre, capabilities and effort!

funfun0209

Ruby1219 發表於 17-10-3 14:48
agreed!! i got this kind of response many times too when my son was studying in a sought-after int ...

May I ask why your son will feel inferior? Is it common for kids to have that kind of feelings in Harrow?

Ruby1219

funfun0209 發表於 17-10-4 14:48
May I ask why your son will feel inferior? Is it common for kids to have that kind of feelings in Ha ...

He did not feel inferior, it’s me worrying that he might feel so! And turned out I was wrong!

964000

Ruby1219 發表於 17-10-4 19:47
He did not feel inferior, it’s me worrying that he might feel so! And turned out I was wrong!

Yes we should have confidence in our kids. They don't see things like us. Btw I think your kid is not from Harrow?

Ruby1219

964000 發表於 17-10-4 20:34
Yes we should have confidence in our kids. They don't see things like us. Btw I think your kid is n ...

Yes my son not studying in Harrow but another UK boarding school

golfwu

lilygang 發表於 17-9-29 10:12
想請問教學深淺程度如何？

基本上所有國際學校都係HAPPY學校，既然系HAPPY教學程度就唔會深嘅，新加坡國際學校會深D。

YauMum

golfwu 發表於 17-9-26 10:43
你講呢D系最基本嘅必需開支，仲有每年出去游下學、出去旅遊下起碼要20萬，同學仔生日包咗遊艇會請嗮 ...

個人聲明:現為高年級家長， 本人經歷不能作準但可供參考；
1. 大多家庭很有錢但平民也可入讀，只要負擔學費、車費，午餐費就可以了。本人家庭只是平民百姓家，省吃儉用供小朋友。
2. 生日會不一定要舉辦。
3. 遊學團更不強逼，所以學校舉辦的常常欠人數，辦不了。同學們多數自己找，不曾參加的也沒人理會。
4. 學校也沒強迫捐款，只鼓勵學生參與社會公益事務及捐款給學校的charity partner, e.g. crossroad and others.
5. 學校也與地區的學校等舉辦活動。

很少Harrow 家長們在此聊天因他們可能因不懂中文、正體中文、非常忙碌等等原因。

本人認識的中外家長們也很好，沒有門第或貧富或學歷之分，相處很好。
但不排除有另類家長。

香港人一般排中但我與那些在中國長大，現為港人或回流的家長相處融洽及有非常正面的體驗。

dada1010

YauMum 發表於 17-10-5 23:10
個人聲明:現為高年級家長， 本人經歷不能作準但可供參考；
1. 大多家庭很有錢但平民也可入讀，只要負擔學費 ...

謝謝你的分享。我們也只是小康之家而已，所以報名時也有猶豫，驚小朋友如有幸入讀會被看不起，聽完你講也放心了。不過交左表可能都沒機會interview，現在只有等待。

ramuza

dada1010 發表於 17-10-5 23:22
本帖最後由 dada1010 於 17-10-5 23:25 編輯

謝謝你的分享。我們也只是小康之家而已，所以報名時也有猶 ...

may I know how much I need to pay for year 7, debenture, annual capital, monthly tuition and boarding fee

thvicny

Tuition 190380 annual
Capital levy 60000 annual
Lunch fee 3550 per termBoarding (5nights) 108213 per annual