Three Things You Need to Know Before Filling A College Application

    From June 26th to July 2th, Students in Guangdong Province are busy filling their college application.The high-grade cut off lines of Art and Science students in Guangdong are 550 and 500 marks this year. Supposing that there is a Science Students got 596 points ranking 9983th in the Guangdong Province, how can he choose his university and his major? To get a better chance to a better university, here are 3 basic things you need to know with your gaokao results.

 1、The Ranking 

    The Top 10,000 Science Students Detached into Rungs(2010-2018)

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    The first batch line changes every year, so knowing in what place you are among all the candidates can clear out your ranking. Comparing the previous data helps you indicate your chances of entering any university, which is way more important than the grade itself. Besides, only a few universities will publish their previous enrollment situation, finding out the ranking corresponding the grades in the previous year saves you a lot of trouble. 

    First of all ,the top 10,000 students usually exceed the cut off line over 90 marks or more, so the the distance between you and the ones with higher marks are essential information to take into consideration when your target university only receive a few number of students. Starting from around 10,000th students, each one group of marks may conclude 200~300 students, the higher the mark, the fewer the students are concluded.

    With the multiaxial time graph histogram above, you can compare your own rank and the same ranks in the past 8 years to infer.

2、The Gap

    To choose a proper university, another way to know whether your mark is high enough to be enrolled into a university is to calculate the points between your point and the lowest enrollment point of the university. Take Institutes Technology of South China(ITSC) as an example, its previous enrollment statistics shows that in most cases, the top 10,000th and higher ranked students are enrolled.

     As you can see from the combined diagram above, The lowest enrollment line of ITSC always outnumbered the cut off line off key university, and, from 2010-2018, there are increasing number of high-grade students entering ITSC, because the distance between the lowest enrollment mark and the cut off line are bigger and bigger.What’s more, although the highest enrollment mark have little meaning for the majority of students, it’s still necessary to infer the average mark and the average ranking.As for the science student with 596 points , who outnumbered high-grade line (500 marks) nearly 96 points, can certainly take it into consideration.

3、Accessing A Major 

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    Now you have decided to apply the ITSC as your future university, how about major?

     One fast way to know the popularity of the major is to look at its previous enrollment mark. The line chart concludes the top 10 highest enrollment mark majors in ITSC, and tracing back to their statistics in the past 8 years, it is clear that Architecture, Electric Automation and Computer Science are top 3 the most popular majors with rather steady trends of high enrollment marks. Furthermore, majors like Software Engineering, Electronic Science and Technology, Civil Engineering are good choices because their enrollment mark ranking are raising in recent years.Some majors opened full-English teaching class or extra class for studying abroad, so the ranking of their original classes are not listed here.

Sources:

1）http://www.eeagd.edu.cn/portal/?

2）http://www.gdedu.gov.cn

3）http://www.eesc.com.cn

4）http://admission.scut.edu.cn/Bachelor/Admission/