Sorry, I am so careless in notifying details.
Not at all, you always contribute and share some insightful info and comments here.
| mattsmum | 2010-10-02 14:34 |
| Sorry, I am so careless in notifying details. |
| ANChan59 | 2010-10-02 14:51 |
| Quote:原帖由 mattsmum 於 10-10-2 14:34 發表 Sorry, I am so careless in notifying details. Not at all, you always contribute and share some insightful info and comments here. |
| mattsmum | 2010-10-02 18:18 |
| I do have a little contribution to this topic: if you are interested in certain faculty, you should pay attention to that profession/ industry's organization / guild / institute to see what sort of activity they offered for general public so that you would learn more of what these people would do. Maybe a summer job also helps. |
| ANChan59 | 2010-10-02 18:29 |
| ANChan59 | 2010-10-05 00:07 |
| Strategy 3 - Summer job or attachment (Pay or no pay) (Suggested by mattsmum) Work experience related to the professional subject definitely help to improve the advantage of the applicants. Through the experience, you may know the career more, understand the industry norm, know some influential people as mentor or supervisor (My son's school has the mentorship program for seniors), know the process and precedure to get professional qualification etc. Some extreme examples as follow: My ex-boss his eldest son studied in HKIS, summer job in Goldman Sachs and finally admitted to LSE in UK. A friend of mine, his daughter got a summer job in HSBC and an International hotel chain, admitted to LSE and finally work for Investment Bank. For ideal case, I would like my son can have overseas summer job experience , eg. US, Germany or even China (Beijing or Shanghai), Fortune 100 even better:victory: . I don't mind no-pay, I will pay for tickets and provide maintenance fee for my son........ Anyone have contact???;P For science or engineering, self-nomination to universities as volunteer. Age may be a concern, too young is difficult to get insurance coverage and cannot get into laboratory or operating machinery. As volunteer to serve some professional bodies or trade associations........you can know some influential people, VIP, potential boss. Don't treat me wrong, I mean networking not polish the apple. [ 本帖最後由 ANChan59 於 10-10-5 12:58 編輯 ] |
| ANChan59 | 2010-10-12 23:52 |
| In the admission talk of Medicine Faculty, CUHK, one of the speaker Dr. Lee, he shared with us what he did when he was in International School, he sent email to Professors in HKU and CUHK to ask for attachments. He was lucky enough to have 2 attachments in QMH and PWH respectively. In the attachments, he understands the life of a doctor in hospital, the urgency, the life and death, emotional ups and downs, difference in Medicine and Surgery etc. He found the passion to be a doctor and go for it. He emphasis the career can be lasted for 40 years, if you can test it out before the final decision is a good move. The same principle applies to other professional. Take an initiative to seek for opportunity by yourself, understand the career, pros and cons, other opportunities, hardship and rewards etc..... [ 本帖最後由 ANChan59 於 10-10-12 23:54 編輯 ] |
| ANChan59 | 2010-11-20 01:57 |
| Strategy 4: OLE/ECA/CAS with focus or theme(s) Last Saturday, my son'e school organised an University Day with over 30 old boys came back and shared their overseas universities studying experience to their juniors. As they were from various background and countries, they provided an important idea for us to reconsider my son's CAS. OLE/ECA/CAS are based on hours and achievements, but most students won't leverage with their dream programs. Say medicine, your ECA or CAS are piano and or swimming, it's good but if you can related that to your program which make a difference. E.g. run a concert as fund raising to sponsor a mini-medical check up program for the elderly in a public housing estates like in Shamshuipo, still related to music, but add more elements into it: aging population, medical check-up, leadership and creativity. Wow, they challenged us and also opened our mind to do something more meaningful and challenging. [ 本帖最後由 ANChan59 於 10-11-20 13:08 編輯 ] |
| hog.wash | 2010-11-23 01:46 |
| Just because you mentioned your boy is going to apply to local universities using IB results and you mentioned the other day about something about the quantitative finance programs, I feel some more words may be necessary as insurance. The quantitative finance programs in local universities are very mathematical as I mentioned. The first maths course and the first economics course use textbooks which are intended for master students elsewhere. The maths background from IB is not adequate for preparing your boy for the maths requirements of the course. Worse still, you are competing with people most of them got A in pure mathematics in HKAL, not to mention the NDS (mainland students). Historically, few EAS students (with 6 to 8 As most of them) and non-JUPAS students can perform as well as the A-Level students in their first two years. The final straw is that the students in these programs are separated from general business students. That means it is difficult to get good GPA which is a must if you consider going overseas for master studies. You are basically competing with the mathematically best students in Hong Kong beside GBus students who, on the hand, are taking classes comfortably with hundreds of general business students. If you really want to go overseas afterward, go for a general business degree, an accounting degree or even an economics degree. You will end up with far better GPAs, other things being equal. [ 本帖最後由 hog.wash 於 10-11-23 01:54 編輯 ] |
| hog.wash | 2010-11-23 01:55 |
| ANChan59 | 2010-11-23 13:14 |
| hoq.wash Thanks for your useful advice. My son will sit for IBDP in 2013 and Maths go for HL and aim at grade 7, as no more HKAL, only HKDSE, the competition may not be so keen (My expectation only). His Maths is excellent in HK standard and took some gifted programs in Stanford and Imperial College before. His strength is Maths, he attended the program in Imperial College 2009 and visited Barclays Capital in London. The speaker from BC explained to them that how to apply maths to financial market and how to write a good business proposal to borrow money from the bank.......... he loved that.... We recommend our son opt for professional degree rather too general like BBA and GBus. Quantitative Finance can be a good choice, as we think CFA is professional (Any comment?). He will have 2 more years to plan as we start to evaluate different programs locally and overseas. LSE may be a good choice, BSc in Finance and Account or BSc in Economics, IB predicted score 38+, HL 7,6,6 and Maths must be HL and Grade 7. |
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