“发现”自我：启明星首届高中毕业生大学录取结果揭晓！

大学申请的过程就是学生发现自我和探索自我的过程——

孩子们一边认知自我和需求，一边尝试调整选择和策略，最终找到最适合自己、也是自己最心仪的高校递出申请。

过去3年来，作为启明星第一届高中毕业生，2023届学生不断思考和探索自己真实的兴趣与职业方向，寻找最适合自己的高等教育路径，努力成长，令曾经出任美国知名中学大学升学顾问和芝加哥大学招生官、现在担任启明星大学升学顾问主管的Melissa Meltzer Warehall感触颇深：

一旦走在正确的方向上，距离收获便不远了——

截止4月底，12年级的全部15位学生共收到91所大学的154份录取通知书，平均人均10.3份，其中包含位于北美、欧洲、亚洲的公立和私立研究型大学、综合性大学、文理学院等高等学府，获得奖学金合集超过2700万元人民币！

1. 知名学府的Offer是对学生卓越表现的认可

启明星首届高中毕业生收获了不少来自世界各地知名学府的offer，是对孩子们卓越表现和他们所受教育的肯定。

这些offer来自包括位列英国G5的帝国理工学院、伦敦大学学院；属于澳洲八大名校的新南威尔士大学；加拿大排名前三的多伦多大学、麦吉尔大学和英属哥伦比亚大学；美国方向如匹兹堡大学、伦斯勒理工学院、加州大学戴维斯分校、圣克鲁斯分校、河滨分校等多所加州高校等。

2. 专业排名位居全球顶流的院校也递来橄榄枝

选择专业方向时，我们的学生没有人云亦云。他们从本心出发，选择非常广泛多样：除了建筑、经济学、服装设计、土木工程、传媒等方向，也包含进化生物学、艺术、政治学、教育、精算学、兽医学、古生物学、地质学、运动管理、马术学、药理学、国际关系、广告学等。

学生们在申请中诚恳展示了自己的学习热情和未来学以致用的决心和勇气，深深打动了招生官，收获了一大捧来自全球专业排名顶流高校的橄榄枝！比如，全球专业排名第一的伦敦大学皇家兽医学院、土木工程专业英国排名前三的帝国理工学院、生物学排名全加拿大第一的多伦多大学、传媒专业在加拿大排名第一的英属哥伦比亚大学、在荷兰兽医学排名第一的荷兰瓦赫宁恩大学、服装设计专业全美名列前茅的加州艺术大学和奥蒂斯艺术设计学院等、加拿大视觉艺术专业排名顶流的安大略艺术设计大学和艾米丽卡尔艺术与设计大学。

15位启明星第一届毕业生即将离校远航。他们经历了多年扎实的学习和磨砺，即将跨入最适合自己的、优秀的高等学府，翻开人生的下一个篇章。

更加令人欣慰的是，11年级的学生已经开始学习12年级学生的经验，把做好时间管理的必要性放在心上，并且着手确定自己感兴趣的大学，考虑申请文书的主题。他们正在启明星经验丰富的大学升学顾问指导下，准备用于今年秋季提交的，富有竞争力的申请资料和优秀的艺术作品集。

教育和成长，没有捷径。我们祝愿所有这些真诚对待自己人生的学生得到回报！

Applying for admission to a university becomes a journey of discovering ourselves ----

To find the most suitable, dream universities, students have to have a deep understanding about themselves, identify their passions, and keep adjusting choices and strategies based on their personal growth.

Over the past three years, the first high school graduates of Daystar Academy, the students of the  Class of 2023, pondered and discovered their interests and career potentials, finding paths of higher education that best suits them. Melissa Meltzer Warehall, Daystar’s Head of College Counseling, was formerly an admissions officer at the University of Chicago and a college counselor at a well-respected secondary school in the USA, is most impressed by the Daystar graduates:

Once you set foot on the right track, you are not far away from reaping fruit...

As April came to a close, all 15 of our Grade 12 students have received multiple offers of admission amounting to 154 admission letters from 91 higher education institutions (10.3 per person), including public and private research universities, comprehensive universities, and liberal arts colleges located in North America, Europe, and Oceana. The scholarship offers received are worth more than RMB 27,000,000.

1. Offers from prestigious universities are an endorsement of students’ excellent performance

Offers of admission from prestigious universities worldwide received by Daystar’s first high school graduates are an endorsement of students’ excellent performance, as well as the education they experienced.

Daystar students have obtained offers from Imperial College London and University College London (two of the UK’s G5 Super Elite), University of New South Wales (part of the Australian Group of Eight), University of Toronto, McGill University, the University of British Columbia (top three universities in Canada), and University of Pittsburgh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and multiple campuses of the University of California, including Davis, Santa Cruz and Riverside, in the USA.

2. Universities and colleges with top-ranking majors have also sent offers

Daystar students rarely follow the crowd when choosing their college majors. Instead, they follow their heart so their choices are diverse and cover a wide range of fields such as architecture, economics, fashion design, civil engineering, and media, as well as evolutionary biology, fine art, politics, education, actuarial science, veterinary medicine, palentology, geology, sport management, equine studies, pharmacology, international relations, and advertising.

During the application process, our students demonstrated their passion for academics and their determination to serve society with the knowledge they acquire. Their sincerity impressed numerous admissions officers and granted themselves admission letters from prestigious universities around the world, including University of London-Royal Veterinary College (one of the top three veterinary schools in the world), Imperial College London (one of the British top three universities for civil engineering), University of Toronto (Canada's best university for biology), University of British Columbia (Canada's best university for media), Wageningen University & Research (The Netherland’s top university for veterinary medicine), California College of the Arts, and Otis College of Art and Design (America's top-ranking universities for fashion design) and Ontario College of Art and Design and Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada’s top universities for visual arts.

The 15 graduates will soon leave us and embark on another life journey. After years of solid learning and nurturing, they will enter outstanding universities, open a new chapter of life, and embrace the best versions of themselves.

Current students in Grade 11 have taken note of the experiences they’ve witnessed of their Grade 12 friends and they have taken to heart the need to manage their time well. Already, Grade 11 students are identifying colleges of interest and exploring topics for their application essays. They are working closely with Daystar’s experienced college counselors to craft competitive applications, and prepare superb art portfolios, to submit this fall.

There is no short cut for growth and education. We wish every student who treats life with integrity would get what they desire!

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