HK students aim for mainland universities_美文

HK students aim for mainland universities

"We mainly observe how well the students express their ideas, communicate and cooperate with their teammates, and we prefer those with decent manners and a wide range of knowledge," Wu said.

He also said Hong Kong students are active in social services during high school and naturally show their concern and support for disadvantaged groups.

Wu said his university plans to recruit 35 Hong Kong high school graduates among the 2,439 applicants using the specially designed exam.

Students who fail to enroll in their target university during this round of exams still have the opportunity to take the Joint Entrance Examination for Universities and enroll at a mainland university, but they will have to compete with candidates from Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese high school graduates.

"The competition among Hong Kong high school graduates to enter a local university is really fierce. It really helps to give more opportunities to Hong Kong students to enter a university on the mainland," said Chan Wan, 22, a Hong Kong student who is in her senior year at Jinan University in Guangzhou.

Chan said her Mandarin skills and knowledge about cultures on the mainland will be a great help when she returns to Hong Kong to work.

According to a written statement released by the admissions office of Peking University, most Hong Kong students traditionally tend to choose majors such as economics, law, management and international politics. But in recent years, the new trend is that students are majoring in history, physics and chemistry, which reflects their "growing emphasis on long-term personal development."