Update from the University Guidance Department

Issue 18: 10/2/2023

Last term, those Terminale and Year 13 students who applied to anglophone universities were busy completing their applications. Though some major deadlines have passed, for instance the UCAS (UK) deadline, a number of applications to universities in Europe and Asia-Pacific are still in progress. In general, anglophone applications are made earlier than those to French universities.

We are delighted to report that some of our students have already received conditional offers from UK universities, and from other anglophone universities around the world. It is still early in the year for anglophone offers, and we expect the majority to come in over the next few months, with highly selective universities (eg Imperial and UCL in the U.K.) taking the longest to make their decisions. Most US decisions will come in at the start of April, most Canadian decisions from March to May, and Hong Kong and European decisions from now until summer. 

Please note that, for France, offers from applications made via Parcoursup will begin to come in from 1st June.

A number of students have been invited to interview for medical degrees in the U.K. For international students, admission to U.K. medical degrees is extremely difficult, and invitation to interview is an achievement in itself. One student has already achieved an offer to study Medicine here in Hong Kong, at CUHK.

Congratulations to our students for their achievements so far, which are a credit to them and their teachers.

In other news, we are pleased that in-person visits to FIS by universities are gradually starting again, after a long period during which all presentations were online. We were delighted to host 3 UK universities (Birmingham, Sheffield, Lancaster) in January, and IE University (Spain) in early February. Students in years 11-13 / 2nde-Terminale are welcome to attend university presentations, subject to gaining the teacher’s permission if a class needs to be missed. University events can be viewed here: https://orientation.www.fis.edu.hk/events/

Offers received so far (anglophone universities) – as of 6th of February 2023

United Kingdom

  • Aston University
  • Bangor University
  • University of the West of England
  • Cardiff University
  • Durham University
  • Keele University
  • King’s College London
  • Kingston University
  • Lancaster University
  • Leeds Beckett University
  • Liverpool John Moores University
  • Loughborough University
  • Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Newcastle University
  • Oxford Brookes University
  • Point Blank Music School
  • Queen Mary, University of London
  • Royal Holloway, University of London
  • SOAS, University of London
  • Swansea University
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Bath
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Exeter
  • University of Leeds
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Nottingham
  • University of Portsmouth
  • University of Reading
  • University of Sheffield
  • University of Southampton
  • University of St Andrews
  • University of Stirling
  • University of Surrey
  • University of Sussex
  • University of Warwick
  • University of York

USA

  • CUNY-Hunter College
  • NYU (ED)
  • UMass Boston (EA)
  • Northeastern (EA)

Canada

  • McGill

Hong Kong

  • CUHK
  • City University
  • HKU
  • HKUST

Europe

  • Amsterdam University College, Netherlands
  • Bocconi University, Italy
  • IE University, Spain
  • Tilburg University, Netherlands
  • Vrije University, Netherlands

David Hammond
University Guidance Counsellor

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