煩惱中，Cardiff 收左我個仔，應否轉校？

Ruby1219

bb815 發表於 18-5-4 23:45
Cardiff 不收Art, 叫亞仔選理科，佢理科都可以，但對medi 又冇特別濃厚興趣，當然心儀牛劍、英、美等比較 ...

純為考Oxbridge轉校有點不智。即使間學校嘅Oxbridge rate 有幾高，都唔係guarantee 你個仔入到，考Oxbridge 係要天時地利人和，自己要有實力同準備外，亦有好大luck factor, 所以我成日話唔好以考到Oxbridge 為唯一目標，考下無妨，係一個好好嘅經驗，但唔好放太大期望。識得有朋友幾年前讀Cardiff, 無報Oxbridge, 用兩個choices 報LSE Econ, 最後都係考唔到，去咗UCL. don't get me wrong, UCL Econ 係好好，我個point 係學校唔會保證你考到邊間大學，所以揀中學時亦唔好以單一原因嚟揀，用Oxbridge rate 嚟揀更加危險，因為成數唔高（高極少過一半），代價太大（Cardiff 出咗名無boarding school life).

Ruby1219

Vivis 發表於 18-5-5 19:02
請問一般boarding school 都有專攻牛劍的課程？

Not sure what exactly you meant by 專攻牛劍的課程. I think many UK secondary schools (like my son's school) do provide special support to Oxbridge applicants. My son's school has a designated Oxbridge coordinator, who would organise seminars, 1:1 consultation sessions, extra tuitions for Oxbridge aptitude entrance exams (tutored by subject teachers), arrange mock interviews (internal by subject teachers and extra mocks by external experts) etc for the Oxbridge applicants.