Admissions

Admission Standards

Houde Academy is the first full-time designated education school in Shenzhen. It has a team of excellent Chinese and foreign teachers with high academic qualifications, in-depth skills qualifications and rich teaching experience. The school combines global teaching resources with creative educational practices to create a rich, diverse and selectable curriculum for each student to customize a growth plan suitable for their studies and development.

 

The overseas direction of Houde Academy focuses on training students. The GoAbroad track of Houde Academy focuses on cultivating students’ critical thinking skills, language and writing skills, academic research skills, artistic perception skills, teamwork skills, and social practice skills. We have adopted British and American high school courses (currently offering Cambridge IGCSE and AS/A-Level courses and 16 AP courses), while integrating independent research and development courses to design a diverse and rich teaching system. In addition, the ELP practice activities developed by our academy itself have led students to visit countries and regions in China and abroad in the past few years to study local cultural and social issues, which greatly enriched students’ horizons.

 

In addition, our Houde Academy strictly implements the policy of customized and hierarchical teaching and has cultivated batch after batch of outstanding students under the motto to learn locally to face the world. Our school is about to celebrate its 5 years anniversary and Houde’s students have achieved remarkable results, getting accepted by Universities such as Cornell University, Brown University, Duke University, University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto and other world-renowned universities. And this year our achievements have also been affirmed by the education sector. In the list of “2021 Hurun 100 Schools: Top 100 Chinese International Schools” which was just released, Houde  Academy was on the list and successfully entered the top 6 Shenzhen International Schools. 

Application Process (2021)

Houde Academy adopts two application methods (choose one of the two) in the International Department. One by independent enrollment and one by high school entrance examination results. In the process we will examine the applicant’s following abilities:

  1. Student GPA (comprehensive school academic reputation and overall school spirit)
  2. Language scores: small TOEFL, TOEFL, IELTS, Duolingo 
  3. Academic ability: admission test score (written test + interview)
  4. Competitions and specialties: academic and non-academic competitions, music, painting and other artistic specialties (priority admission)

Scholarship (2021)

Grade 8 to Grade 9

Full Prize

Meet any of the following language requirements: TOEFL (above 80 points) or IELTS (above 6 points) or Duolingo (above 105 points)

Half Prize 

Meet any of the following language requirements: TOEFL (above 75 points) or IELTS (above 5.5 points) or Duolingo (above 100 points)

Minimum

Both English and mathematics for independent admissions examinations are required to pass the pass line (60/100), and the students’ English listening and speaking skills are sufficient to cope with the English teaching environment

Grade 9 to Grade 10

Full Prize

Meet any of the following language requirements: TOEFL (above 85 points) or IELTS (above 6.5 points) or Duolingo (above 110 points)

Half Prize

Meet any of the following language requirements: TOEFL (above 80 points) or IELTS (above 6 points) or Duolingo (above 105 points)

Minimum

Both English and mathematics for independent admissions examinations are required to pass the pass line (60/100), and the students’ English listening and speaking skills are sufficient to cope with the English teaching environment

Grade 10 to Grade 11

Full Prize

Meet any of the following language requirements: TOEFL (above 95 points) or IELTS (above 7 points) or Duolingo (above 115 points)

Half Prize 

Meet any of the following language requirements: TOEFL (above 90 points) or IELTS (above 6.5 points) or Duolingo (above 110 points)

Minimum

Both English and mathematics for independent admissions examinations are required to pass the pass line (60/100), and the students’ English listening and speaking skills are sufficient to cope with the English teaching environment

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