Higher Education Office

At the Higher Education Office, our teacher-counsellors work directly with individual students to realise their career and higher education aspirations. The following guides and resources have been created to help students prepare their university applications.

Updated! Timelines 2023/24 Guide for UK and US Applications as well as our writing guides have been published for alumni. Year 6 students may refer to the resources on Ivy.

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For students interested in applying to UK universities, refer to the Timelines 2023/24 Guide for UK and US Applications. Do not create your UCAS accounts yet, as the current cycle is still on-going. Please wait for the UCAS guide to be published (refer to Timelines). Please refer to and adhere to all internal RI deadlines for timely submission. The UK personal statement guide for 2023 has also been published, so you may refer to this if you need some guidance crafting your statement. You will be able to submit your statements for feedback in September. Please wait for our instructions to do so in mid-July.

NEW! Timelines 2023/24 Guide for UK and US Applications
NEW! UK Personal Statement Guide 2023 For Alumni

For students interested in applying to US colleges, refer to the Timelines 2023/24 Guide for UK and US Applications. Do not create your CommonApp and CIALFO accounts yet, as the current cycle is still on-going. Please wait for the guides to be published (refer to Timelines). Please refer to and adhere to all internal RI deadlines for timely submission. The US application writing guide for 2023 has also been published, so you may refer to this for guidance in crafting your application essays. You will be able to submit your essays for feedback in September. Please wait for our instructions to do so in mid-July.

NEW! Timelines 2023/24 Guide for UK and US Applications
NEW! US Application Writing Guide 2023 For Alumni 

We can help you apply to overseas colleges and universities outside the US and UK.

Do inform us at least 3 weeks in advance if you need supporting documents like recommendations and predicted grades. We will also send hard copies of supporting documents to these universities for you.

Overseas universities our alumni have gone on to include:

Canada
University of Toronto, University of British Columbia

Switzerland
École hôtelière de Lausanne 

Japan
Waseda University, University of Kyoto, University of Tokyo