Campus of High School Zhong Guan Cun Bei Road, , 100084

SCHOOL PROFILE 2020-2021 CEEB code: 694296 www.this.edu.cn Introduction and Mission Phone: (8610) 6277-2951 At Tsinghua International School (THIS) students engage in an Eastern and Western Fax: (8610) 6279-7959 education. Now in its 12th year, THIS is a public international school affiliated with the

Administration nation’s top university and high school. The school enrolls passport holding students from Executive Principal: nations other than China and most identify culturally as Chinese. THIS’s mission is to foster Wenping Li creative critical thinkers rooted in China who are prepared to lead in the global community. Academic Principal: We aim to develop the whole child utilizing constructivist pedagogies and nurture individuals Reid Prichett of exceptional character to positively contribute to the world. The school’s core values are: Director of Secondary School: collaboration, engagement, discovery, cultural diversity, and Tsinghua spirit. Dieu-Anh Nguyen Director of College Counseling: Language Study Amanda Yu A hallmark of THIS is the requirement that students undertake advanced study in both the [email protected] English and Chinese languages. The school’s primary language of instruction is English, and School Community students who are non-native English speakers take our regular courses. In Chinese language, Student Profile we offer courses for both first- and second-language speakers, denoted on the transcript with Grades 9-12: 192 Class of 2021: 50 “A” and “B” respectively. For students who are native speakers of Chinese, the curriculum is similar to that in a Chinese national school, with advanced work in history and literature to Profile develop reading, writing and public speaking skills. Both Chinese A and B are more rigorous THIS is composed of 85 than AP Chinese. faculty members. 54% are foreign nationals representing 11 countries. Independent Study 69% of our faculty hold Grade 12 students are eligible to participate in an independent study course if he/she is on Master’s or track for graduation, achieves a minimum GPA of 3.25, and identifies an area in which he/she degrees in education or their subject-related field. wishes to study in depth. The student works with a teacher to develop the course syllabus for the year, and meets regularly to focus on and project development. At the end of the Co-Curriculum school year, students present their research or project to school faculty. The co-curriculum includes 39 clubs, including 7 competitive academic teams Curriculum and 3 competitive athletic THIS follows an American curriculum including 16 AP courses. Additionally, below is a teams. Students are sampling of the elective courses offered: restricted to holding one Astrology and Cosmology Foundations of Digital Art Playwriting and Set Design Presidency/Vice Presidency Debate and Critical Writing French I-IV Robotics I/II at a time. Approximately Digital Design and Fabrication Improv Theatre Social Psychology 50% of each senior class Digital Video I/II International Relations Spanish I-IV participates in the Eastern Art I/II Introduction to Linear Algebra Sports Management competitive sports program. Environmental Linguistics STEAM I/II Fitness/Advanced Fitness Mobile App Design & Development Web Design

Memberships: ACAMIS AP Courses Allowed ISAC Students may take a maximum of 8 AP courses over four years with the exception of AP InternationalACAC Chinese. In rare cases, students may appeal to the academic principal to exceed this maximum.

Accreditation Grade 9: 0 Grade 10: 2 Grade 11: 3 Grade 12: 3 THIS is fully accredited by the Western Association of Application Policies Schools & Colleges (WASC) This year, seniors are limited to 16 applications and can apply to a maximum of 4 countries. Per school policy, all letters of recommendations and transcripts are kept strictly confidential.

CLASS OF 2021 – Cumulative Weighted GPA Distribution as of June 2019

GPA 4.33-4.00 3.99-3.67 3.66-3.33 3.32-3.00 2.99-2.67 2.66-2.33 2.32-2.00 <2.00

Students 16 18 5 5 4 1 0 1 (n=50)

AP EXAM RESULTS 2019-2020 (n=199) AP Subject Total # of Students Earned 3 and Above Average Score 2-D Art and Design 11 11 4.27 Biology 15 14 3.93 Calculus AB 16 16 4.63 Calculus BC 15 15 4.6 Chemistry 19 17 3.84 Chinese Language & Culture 4 4 4.75 Computer Science Principles 14 13 3.71 English Language & Composition 17 16 3.94 English Literature & Composition 10 10 4.2 Macroeconomics 11 10 4.09 Physics I 17 17 4.12 Physics II 8 8 4.38 Statistics 22 19 3.77 US History 12 11 3.67 World History 8 8 4.38 * We offer Computer Science A and Computer Science Principles on a rotating basis.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS SAT SUMMARY FOR CLASS OF 2021 English 4 credits Section Middle 50% Mean Mathematics 4 credits Reading & Writing 590-680 623 Science 4 credits Mathematics 680-800 728 Social Studies 3 credits Total 1320-1440 1352 Chinese Language 4 credits

Fine Arts 1 credit

Performing Arts 1 credit Physical Education 2 credits Computer Studies 1 credit Health 0.5 credit Electives 0.5 credit Total: 25 credits

Class of 2015 – 2020 Admissions Data From the graduating classes of 2015-2020, 209 graduates matriculated to 105 schools in 9 countries. The list below includes all colleges and universities to which students have been admitted over the past four years. Bold-face type indicates institutions where students have enrolled. The number in parenthesis indicates the total number of students who have been admitted.

UNITED STATES Northwestern University Champaign (17) Imperial College London Arizona State University-Tempe Oberlin College University of Massachusetts – Amherst King's College London Art Center College of Design (2) Occidental College (4) Politecnico di Milano Bard College (4) Ohio State University (5) University of Miami (3) Politecnico di Torino Barnard College (2) Parsons – The New School (3) University of Michigan (3) University of Arts London (2) Bentley University (3) Pennsylvania State University (8) University of Minnesota – Twin Cities University of Bath Berklee College of Music Pepperdine University (2) University of Nebraska at Lincoln Universidad Católica San Antonio Binghamton University (3) Pratt Institute (9) University of Pittsburgh (3) de Murcia Boston College (5) Purdue University (12) University of Rochester (5) University College London Boston University (16) Reed College (2) University of Southern California University of Edinburgh (4) Brandeis University (2) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2) (10) University of Glasgow (10) Rhode Island School of Design (2) University of Utah University of Manchester California College of the Arts Rice University (2) University of Virginia (6) University of Milano-Bicocca California Institute of Arts Rochester Institute of (2) – Seattle University of St. Andrews (2) Carnegie Mellon University (2) Rutgers University (3) (12) Case Western Reserve University (2) San Francisco State University University of -Madison (2) Clark University Santa Monica College Vanderbilt University ASIA Clarkson University Sarah Lawrence College (3) Virginia Institute of Technology Beijing Film Academy (3) College of William and Mary (2) Savannah College of Art and Design Virginia Military Institute Beijing Institute of Technology Colorado College (6) Wake Forest University (3) Beijing Normal University Columbia College Chicago (3) School of the Art Institute of Washington University in St. Louis City Cornell University (2) Chicago (6) Wheaton College Communication University of China DePaul University School of Visual Arts (7) Williams College (3) Drexel University (3) Seattle University Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hang Seng Management College Duke University (4) Stony Brook University (4) Hong Kong Communication College Emerson College (4) Syracuse University (9) Keio University Emory University (4) SUNY Albany CANADA of Hong Kong Fashion Institute of Technology SUNY Buffalo Brock University New York University-Shanghai Fordham University (14) SUNY SF Renmin University of China (2) George Mason University The New School-All Division (5) Concordia University Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University George Washington University (2) The University of Iowa Fraser International College Shanghai Jiao Tong University The University of North Carolina at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (2) SUNY Korea Georgia Institute of Technology (4) Chapel Hill (5) McGill University (3) The Chinese University of Hong Hamilton College Tufts University (2) McMaster University Kong Hampshire College UC-Berkeley (12) Ontario College of Art and Design The University of Hong Kong UC-Davis (18) Queen's University (13) Tsinghua University (32) Illinois Institute of Technology UC-Irvine (21) Ryerson University University of Traditional Chinese Indiana University Bloomington (2) UC-Los Angeles (13) Simon Fraser University (4) Medicine Lake Forest College UC-Merced (2) University of Alberta (2) (4) Lehigh University UC-Riverside (3) University of British Columbia (13) Wuhan University Lewis & Clark College UC-San Diego (27) University of Guelph Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University Loyola University of Chicago (2) UC-Santa Barbara (8) University of Ottawa (4) Yale NUS College (2) Loyola University Marymount UC-Santa Cruz (8) University of Toronto (17) Yamanashi Gakuin University Macalester College Union College (2) University of Victoria Maryland Institute College of Art University of Arizona University of Waterloo (8) Mass. Institute of Technology University of Chicago (2) Western University (7) AUSTRALIA Mass. College of Art and Design University of Cincinnati Wilfrid Laurier University (2) Australian Miami University – Middletown University of Colorado - Boulder (2) York University (7) The Royal Melbourne Institute of Miami University – Oxford University of Connecticut (4) Technology Michigan State University (4) University of Delaware (2) EUROPE The (2) Mount Holyoke College (4) University of Denver Bournemouth University The University of New South Wales New York University (16) University of Florida (2) Durham University (2) The (4) Northeastern University (1) University of Illinois at Urbana- École hôtelière de Lausanne