步入协和双语万源校区建校的第7个年头，我们也迎来了万源美式高中第五届毕业生丰收的一季。Founded in 2012, Shanghai United International School Wanyuan US High School ushered in the season of celebrating our class of 2019 graduation.
截至2019年3月31日，协和万源美式高中2019届74位毕业生共计收到了来自美国和加拿大名校的253份录取信，奖学金数量高达2,131,200美金。As of March 31, 2019, 74 graduates from class of 2019 have received a total of 253 letters of admission from all over the world and the number of scholarships reached $2,131,200 US dollars.
本届毕业生中有66位同学选择前往美国，约占毕业生总人数89%。今年我们突破性地在ED早申请阶段就迎来了21名毕业生（约占申请美国高校总人数的32%）收获他们梦校录取的捷报。更令人欣喜的是今年我们共斩获了16枚来自美国排名前30综合性研究型大学的录取。其中有世界著名公立研究型大学，位列2018-2019 USNews世界排名第4的加州大学伯克利分校；连续21年位列全美大学综合排名25左右极富盛名的维克森林大学;新常春藤名校位于纽约心脏地带的纽约大学；美国学术声望非常高2018 USNews世界排名第28位的加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校。66 students from class of 2019 (about 89% of the total number of graduates) chose to go to the United States to pursue their higher education. This year, we have made a breakthrough in term of Early Decision admission to highly ranked universities and colleges, 21 students (about 32% of the total number of our US applicants) were accepted to their first-choice schools in their early decision round college application, which is a big span of progress compared to last year. What makes it even better is that, according to 2019 U.S. News & World Report，we received 16 offers from top 30 National Universities in the USA. Among the top university offers, we got offers from University of California – Berkeley (ranked #4 according to 2018-19 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking), Wake Forest University (ranked tied for 13th in terms of “Best Undergraduate Teaching”, tied for 27th overall among national universities), New York University (top 30 universities internationally by the U.S. News & World Report), and UC Santa Barbara (ranked 27 by 2018 U.S. News & World Report Global Universities Ranking).
一流名校（美国排名前50综合性研究型大学）录取方面，不仅收获了年年青睐我们学生的加州大学欧文分校（综合排名33）、佛罗里达大学（综合排名35）、加州大学戴维斯分校（综合排名38）、加州大学圣地亚哥分校（综合排名41）、波士顿大学（综合排名42）、凯斯西储大学（综合排名42）、美国东北大学（综合排名44）、杜兰大学（综合排名44）、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（综合排名46）、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（综合排名49）、伦斯勒理工大学（综合排名49）等顶尖名校抛来的橄榄枝。与此同时我们今年录取名校的范围也在往纵深不断扩展,分别有首次录取协和万源高中学生的波士顿五大名校之一，享有“犹太哈佛”之美称的布兰迪斯大学2枚（综合排名35），以及历史悠久，在美国享有声望的波士顿学院１枚（综合排名38），还有被誉为“美国高等教育的摇篮”美国第一所公立大学佐治亚大学（综合排名46）等，再次更新了万源高中的录取学校记录。更值得一提的是各大名校都加大了对我校高中学生的录取率，如纽约大学本季录取了我们6名同学，2018USNews世界大学排名第10名的华盛顿大学西雅图分校录取了我们高中4名学生…且这些顶尖名校为了吸引我们优秀学生，纷纷向他们发来包括奖学金、校长奖及各大院校荣誉学院等优厚的录取条件。Our students not only harvested olive branches thrown by leading universities like University of California-Irvine, University of Florida, University of California-Davis, University of California-San Diego, Boston University，Case Western Reserve University, Northeastern University, Tulane University, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute etc.. At the same time, the scope of admission to elite schools this year is also expanding in depth, for the first time, our students were admitted to the famous Boston Consortium institutions – 2 was accepted to Brandeis University (tied for 28th among all private national universities, 35th among all colleges and universities in the United States, and 29th in “best value” schools in the U.S. News & World Report rankings) and 1 got accepted to Boston College (tied as the 38th best national school) etc.. What is worth mentioning is that all the prestigious universities have increased the admission rate of our high school students. For example, University of Washington (U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities ranked UW as top 10th worldwide) sent out 4 offers, including one to their Honor College, to our students; New York University admitted 6 of our students in this college application season…. these institutions have provided our graduates with scholarships and honors programs.
我们万源高中的学生不单单受到传统美国综合类院校的青睐，也受到了注重全人、博雅教育的文理名校的喜爱，充分表明了万源美式高中的教育及教学理念，高度灵活的课程选择，及4年制的个性化升学、职业规划为学生的发展提供了一个理想的平台。Our Wanyuan US High School students are not only favored by US National universities, but also by the Liberal Arts and Sciences Colleges. LACs are more focus on undergraduate programs, and pay attention to the whole person & liberal arts education. It fully demonstrates the education and teaching philosophy carried by Wanyuan US High School, plus our highly flexible & selective curriculum, and four-year personalized college and career planning provide an ideal platform for our students’ development.
在注重本科教育的美国文理学院的录取方面我们战果斐然。学生首次囊获了录取中国学生极少，享有盛誉的美国排名第二私立女子学院，文理学院排名第11位的史密斯学院（1枚）；也第一次录入了全美唯一一所顶尖音乐与顶尖文理学院紧密结合的大学-欧柏林学院（1枚）；同时也收获了一枚华盛顿州最难被录取的大学惠特曼学院录取及被普林斯顿评论誉为最佳课堂体验的萨拉劳伦斯学院等文理名校；也继续巩固了我们与美国第一所女子学院，“七姐妹学院”的大姐曼荷莲学（文理排名30）、院被誉为25所“新常春藤”名校之一斯基德莫尔学院（文理排名41）、丹尼森大学（文理排名43）、三一学院（文理排名46）及巴德学院（文理排名56）等文理学院的录取战果。This year we have achieved great success in the admissions to top ranked American Liberal Arts Colleges. It is the first time that one of our students got in the most highly selective，ranked tied for the 11th among the best Liberal Arts College – Smith College to seek unparalleled education and meaningful opportunity. Our graduates also got accepted to Oberlin College (ranked 30), the oldest coed liberal arts college and continuously operating conservatory in the United States. We also had one student accepted to Whitman College – the hardest college to get in the state of Washington, and one admitted to Sarah Lawrence College – the “best classroom experience” in all America by Princeton Review. In the meantime, we continued to consolidate our relationship with our old friends – Mount Holyoke College (ranked 30), Skidmore College (ranked 41), Denison College (ranked 43), Trinity College (ranked 46) and Bard College (ranked 56) … by sending best fit students to those schools.
捷报连连！目前已经收到2枚来自享誉北美乃至全球的顶尖高等学府，加拿大排名第一的多伦多大学的2份邀请。This year we only had a couple of students decided to attend universities in Canada. So far, two have been admitted to the best research universities in Canada – University of Toronto.、
我们的同学在纯艺，室内设计，服装设计，摄影及电影方向用他们的实力收获了众多艺术类名校的录取，如被誉为世界电影教育最重要的基地之一的纽约大学帝势艺术学院，世界最著名的服装设计学院-帕森斯设计学院，还有普瑞特艺术学院、纽约视觉艺术学院、芝加哥艺术学院和加州艺术学院等。Our Arty students used their solid academic background and their talents in the fields of fine arts, interior design, fashion design, photography and filming to gain admissions to a large number of prestigious art schools, such as New York University – Tisch College of Arts, one of the most important places in the world of film education. The New School – Parsons, the world’s most famous fashion design school, and Pratt Art Institute, School of Visual Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art and California College of the Arts.
香港，日本，新加坡等国家或地区的大学申请仍在继续，我们会陆续更新报道。其中值得一提的是我们本届实力最强选手在取得日语考试满分的条件下，正在准备东京大学、庆应大学和早稻田大学的申请，期待她的捷报早日传来。由衷地祝愿我们届协和万源美式高中的2019毕业生怀揣着自己的梦想展翅高飞。College applications to universities in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Canada are continuing. Worthy to mention, one of our competitive applicants with perfect Japanese language score will apply to Tokyo University, Keio University and Waseda University. We will keep updating class of 2019 offer report. Sincerely hope all our graduates will fly high with their dreams.
