News | Wellington College Pupils Celebrate Excellent Results

This year, schools across Wellington College China once again achieved impressive IB, A-level and IGCSE results, celebrated offers from top universities worldwide. Let's share the exciting news from Wellington College in Tianjin and Wellington College International Shanghai.   
   

Wellington College in Tianjin is once again celebrating an excellent crop of university offers from the UK, the USA, South Korea, and around the world. Offers made to our pupils over the past three years are beginning to show a strength in depth and consistency which is remarkable for what is still a relatively new school.

Notable achievements in public exam results this year included A*, A*, A, A in our A Level cohort and an IB score of 42 which equals our previous record. All pupils deserve congratulations as their grades have enabled them to accept places at some of the top universities in the world.

For the first time in the school's history, we have had two pupils accepted onto undergraduate courses for architecture, one of whom has been admitted to the world-renowned Architecture Association in London, the alma mater of many of the world's most well-known architects, including Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas.

As usual, our Wellingtonian artists are heading to top art institutions across the world. This year, destinations for our graduates include Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London (ranked 8th in the world, with an acceptance rate of only 6%) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago which is ranked 6th in the world.

All of our pupils from Year 10 and above will also begin to benefit from our new College and University Guidance Counsellor, Ms Luyi Feng, who has joined us from Canada and brings a wealth of experience of the North American applications process. Luyi is a full-time counselor who speaks fluent English and Mandarin. She is available for all parents and pupils who need guiding through the university applications process.

Wellington pupils who took their IBDP and IGCSE examinations last summer can be rightly proud of their extremely positive results. These were the best yet for the College.

The IB cohort’s average score was 36.5. The cohort average was significantly above the global average of 29.5. At IGCSE, 75% of all IGCSE grades were A*/A. A*/A grades improved from 67% in 2017 to 75% in 2018. 96% of all IGCSE grades were A*/B.

Areas of particular excellence include mathematics and the sciences, as well as languages. In French, Mandarin IB ab initio and Chinese B (Chinese as a foreign language), all IB pupils scored 7. This success was replicated at IGCSE with excellent results in modern languages including Mandarin, Spanish, French and English language.

This kind of success has led to the vast majority of our year 13 leavers gaining offers from their university of choice. We have pupils heading off across the world to study a wide range of subjects at some of the most prestigious institutions. Offers to study mathematics, business, medical sciences, economics and liberal arts courses have come from universities such as Cambridge, UCL, Imperial College London, LSE, University of British Columbia and the University of Texas at Austin.

Wellington is a school where there is success all around the curriculum – in sciences, humanities, the performing and applied arts, mathematics and languages. Pupils have excelled in every area. Testament to that, once again, highest achievers across the board in this year’s exams were also those who took fullest advantage of everything that Wellington Shanghai has to offer. There’s a strong correlation between the pupils with the highest grades and the cast lists of our school productions, the team sheets in our sports, the line-ups of our musical ensembles, the pupil leadership of various projects.This underlines the ongoing importance of a truly holistic approach to education, where living life to the fullest not only encourages the development of character and passion; it also actively supports tangible academic success.

Congratulations to our Class of 2018 and good luck to our Class of 2019 over the coming months. We know that we will have even more to celebrate next year.