Imagine if it were you, would you choose to leave the city's top key high schools and embark on a new and unknown path? Will you choose to say goodbye to the familiar environment and cross the ocean alone to pursue the footsteps of knowledge?
I am afraid that once you encounter a moment when you need to play games with yourself and need to jump out of the comfort zone of life, many people will suddenly lose their ideals and directions, right?
It's a story about choice. The protagonist of the story, Meggie, a full scholarship winner of the HD International Curriculum Center, with five A-level grades in all A's, is working step by step for the perfect ending of the story. In front of her, the world's top schools are waving to her, and behind her, hurd is a professional and dedicated course planning and further education guide. The sweat of the individual and the interweaving of HURD's platform make Meggie and the world's famous schools gradually approach.
01 Select HD
For Meggie, leaving the key secondary school where she once secured herself was a difficult but decisive decision.
The idea of leaving sprouted from an exchange student program two years ago. Meggie went to a public high school in Indiana to exchange studies alone. From a key high school, Gap went to the United States for a year to exchange, and the whole class could not understand her at that time.
Talking about the impulse at that time, Meggie said: "Since I was a child, I have felt that exchange students are cool, and my young age has made the language and culture acceptable, and I want to take the opportunity to go outside to see and go to schools outside to feel a more pure language environment." ”
It was this seemingly impulsive choice that completely changed Meggie's planning and life. In the United States, as one of the few Chinese students in the school, Meggie got an all-A grade. In addition, she led a team of American students to participate in math competitions throughout Indiana with great results. After school, she also helped organize church activities and activities. During the year, Meggie gradually realized that studying abroad may be more suitable for her path.
Meggie as an exchange student in the United States (back right)
After returning to China, the assertive Meggie made up her mind to choose a bilingual school to continue to pursue her dream of studying abroad. But only if the school is good enough, pure enough, inclusive enough. In the end, she chose HD, because here, she not only saw the rigorous academic system, but also saw the diversity of colors that burst out after the fusion of Eastern and Western educational concepts.
"At HD, whether it's a class or an after-school activity, I can have more choices of my own, I can know more clearly what I'm doing, because a lot of things need to be decided by myself, and the teacher will give us the greatest choice."
Meggie was with Hurd's teachers and classmates
Meggie's choice is not only a variety of courses and a wealth of extracurricular activities, but also a curriculum customization and whole-person training tailored by HURD for each different academic.
Ningbo HD International Curriculum Center adopts a professional layered teaching method in the main subjects of mathematics, economics, physics, English and other major subjects in grades 9-12. Depending on each student's different academic background, HURD determines the hierarchy of English and mathematics subjects through a stratified test and conducts a stratified shift system.
For students with weak subject foundations, the school will focus on consolidating the basic knowledge; for students with spare learning, the school will provide a series of "elevation" courses. For each HD child, the school has developed different admission conditions and customized courses that suit the individual characteristics of the students.
Meggie's days when she first arrived at Hurd were a little bumpy. She injured her leg because of an accident, and for a long time she spent her studies in a hospital bed and wheelchair at home. She has always been strong, and naturally she will not slow down in learning for these reasons.
So, while she taught herself, she communicated with the teachers of various subjects in the school through email. For Meggie's questions, the teachers will always reply to the email as soon as possible, help her explain the concepts, explain the exercises, and organize the modules and materials for her to learn. Meggie's efficient time management and learning skills, combined with the active tutoring of her teachers, eventually allowed her to seamlessly connect all the courses after returning to school.
02 Choose the HD Bull Sword project
If the essence of Hurd's education is to attract Meggie's perceptual understanding, then choosing the Niujian project is a rational and never regrettable choice.
After the exchange program with the American high school, Meggie passed the HURD Bull Sword Program test with excellent results and received a full scholarship provided by HURD. As HURD's trump card project, the Niujian Project has accumulated national first-line and international first-class top education resources, helping outstanding students like Meggie to sprint to top schools.
Here, HD Ningbo provides students with a series of professional, high-quality and rich A Level courses, providing students with a full range of academic counseling and assistance for applying for universities. The academic curriculum refers to the mature Cambridge International High School curriculum system in the United Kingdom, and students can choose to take subjects such as mathematics, advanced mathematics, economics, physics, chemistry and English linguistics.
Subject assessment takes the international unified examination, the results are certified by the British Examinations Bureau, the transcript has global credibility, in addition to being recognized by the British and Commonwealth universities, it can also be used to apply for the top universities in the United States and has a lot of advantages.
Under such a curriculum system, Meggie is very successful. In just over a year, she has simultaneously studied five courses in mathematics, high mathematics, physics, chemistry, and economics, and has achieved excellent results of A and above. Among them, in less than two months, she completed 6 books of A level mathematics, got an A* in the exam, and even the small scores were basically close to full marks.
In addition, Meggie achieved an overall IELTS score of 7.5 without intensive extracurricular training. Strong language skills not only make her half the effort in her studies, but also help her seamlessly connect the university curriculum model in the future.
In addition, the International Curriculum Center also provides students with high gold content competitions, such as BMO Mathematics Olympiad Course, BPHO Physics Olympiad Course, UKCHO Chemistry Olympiad and other Olympiad courses, etc., to increase students' future applications to world famous schools. Meggie, encouraged by her teachers, participated in the John Locke Essay Competition international economic essay competition, adding to her most important personal experience in college applications.
Under the dual blessing of academic and quality cultivation of the Niujian Project, Meggie has applied to the world's top institutions including the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, the University of Warwick, and the University of Hong Kong. Hurd's tailor-made application plan for each student not only gave Meggie a clearer understanding of future majors and career plans, but also made her application paperwork shine.
When the counsellor learned that Meggie's career direction was legal counsel, he recommended her to apply for the dual major of business management and law at the University of Hong Kong in view of her planning and the professional characteristics of the school. Not only Meggie, but every student in the Niu Jian class can get such professional and targeted further education advice. After that, NINGBO HD's unique mock interview will also give significant support to students who need to go to top universities for interviews.
03 Choose the future
Perhaps soon, Meggie will usher in its own offer harvest. For her, the high school story is coming to an end, but the choice is just beginning. At HD, we not only give our children the opportunity to choose, we want to teach them how to independently choose their own life direction in the future. May every child who sets out from Hurd to explore the world look back on his life many years later and can say without hesitation that I am not wrong to choose Hurd.