Cambridge U. recruits locally
26/10/2004 16:06
Shanghai Daily News
Admission officials from Cambridge University were in the city yesterday to
select a number of Chinese students who will be offered admission to the
renowned school as well as a partial scholarship. Thirty high school
graduates from all over the country, including one from Shanghai Southwest Weiyu
Middle School, attended yesterday's final selection, which consisted of a
written test and two 20-minute interviews with Cambridge professors. The
chosen students will be admitted directly into the university's undergraduate
engineering program next September without being asked to take one-year
preparatory or language training courses. They will also be eligible for a
scholarship covers 30 percent of tuition fees. Even with the scholarship,
however, students will probably have to pay 600,000 (US$72,289) to 700,000 yuan
over four years for tuition, books and living expenses. "The program is
designed to provide elite Chinese high school graduates with direct access to
one of the world's top universities," said Lica Zhang of Ameson Education and
Culture Exchange Foundation, Cambridge's only partner in China. Program
officials said they don't know how many of yesterday's applicants will be
accepted into the university, but it will be less than 10.
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