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It is our pleasure to congratulate our students on their university of Oxford and Cambridge successes. Five of the current Year 13 class have received an offer of place from these prestigious and world renowned centers of excellence. The five students, the university and the subject they will study are: Arun Shanmuganathan, Cambridge, Mathematics; Choo Jia Wen, Oxford, Biological Sciences; Boyd Siripornpitak, Cambridge, Engineering; Cai Luona, Oxford, Biomedical Engineering and Choi Ji Ho, Cambridge, Natural Sciences.
Arun Shanmuganathan, Choo Jia Wen, Boyd Siripornpitak, Cai Luona and Choi Ji Ho with their letters of offer and Year 13 Dean Kitty Keeman
It is also excellent to note that the five successful students are all of different nationality, therefore truly reflecting the international nature of the school, and also that four of them are AIC boarding students.
Only a small percentage of students who apply to these institutions receive an offer, so for a relatively small school such as ours to achieve five places is a marvelous endorsement of the caliber of the students, quality of the teachers and the university application support provided by our dedicated university counseling team here at Auckland International College.
Columbia University Offers Arun a Place
Founded in 1754, the fifth oldest university in the USA, and currently ranked at number 12 in the world (by the Times Higher Education University World Rankings), has offered a place to Arun Shanmuganathan. Congratulations Arun! How are you going to choose?
Further Ivy League and other US university offers are expected to come in over the next few weeks and we look forward to reporting on offers made. The current Year 13 cohort so far has received 216 offers from the top 50 universities worldwide. This is a tremendous result.
Korean University Offers 2012
 We are delighted to announce offers from Korea's top three universites: Seoul National University has offered places to two AIC students; Yonsei University has offered a place to one student and Korea University has offered places to five AIC students. This is an excellent result for the students concernced. Your futures are assured!
Jimin Kim, AIC graduate 2011, Seoul National University
University of Hong Kong Scholarships and Offers to AIC Students
The University of Hong Kong (HKU), the oldest universtiy in Hong Kong and ranked in the top 50 universities in the world, has offered places to three AIC students in 2012. One of these students has received a full scholarship from HKU with the other two students being offered 30% scholarships for the duration of their study.
Alumni Support
 The start of AIC can be very daunting. There are frequent talks and handouts about top universities, grade expectations, and the difficult admissions process, and in many cases, these talks seemed to raise more questions than they answer. As a student preparing to apply to top universities, I found the process a little abstract, however, the students in the years above me helped make the whole process more comprehensible as they frantically went about finishing their own applications whilst warning of the workload and hectic times to come. It was these small bits of information that helped me prepare.
These same seniors continued to share their experiences, even after they graduated and started their new life at college. “Give yourself plenty of time for the applications”, “watch out for the sudden increase in workload at the start of year 13”, and “finish off as much of your extracurricular in year 12” – tips like these made year 13 a bit more manageable. I found that it was one of the most beneficial parts of AIC - there are students, whether they are Year 13 students or the alumni, who have gone through all that new students will have to go through.
Looking back at my time at AIC, I would have to agree with almost all the advice the alumni gave to me. Plan early and give yourself time! This is the one tip that is told every year but students don’t take seriously enough. You would not only avoid a world of stress and complications, but it would make your time at AIC much more enjoyable and plans for the future attainable.
However, the one other advice I would give is not to rely too heavily on what others are doing to see what you should be doing. At a place like AIC, where there is a lot more information on university applications and testing than many other places, it can be tempting to ‘go with the flow’ and follow what everyone else is doing to get where you want. In all that is going on it is important to remember that AIC is there to help you and give you a means to achieve your goals, not drag you there. You should strongly pursue your interests, explore new ways if you find yourself stuck, and take initiative to ask and search for the things you want. By doing so, you would make the most of your time at AIC and the support from teachers, staff and alumni available there.
Taehwan Shin, AIC Alumni, Harvard University
New school site at Blockhouse Bay.
Established in 2003, Auckland International College is a NZ independent day and boarding school of approximately 380 students, which offers a 3-year senior secondary school education. The specific focus of the school is to prepare students for entry to top universities worldwide. AIC is the only NZ school where all students study the International Baccalaureate Diploma and it has the largest number of IB Diploma students in New Zealand.
Year 11 students study the Preparation Year Programme for IB Diploma which includes SAT preparation, while Year 12 and 13 students study the IB Diploma itself.
AIC employs high caliber teachers, IB trained, and with experience of international education. Specialist staff include university counsellors with expertise and experience in student admissions to top universities around the world, including the UK, US, Canada, Australia, as well as New Zealand. AIC is also an admissions testing centre for US and UK universities.
AIC has a proven track record of academic achievement. IB Diploma scores are consistently well above the international average in pass rate, median and in top grades.Three students scored a perfect score of 45 points out of 45 in their 2010 IB Diploma examinations. This is an exceptional result compared with the IBO average of only one student in 500 globally achieving a perfect score.
AIC graduates have received offers from 85% of the top 20 universities (THES: 2010 /11 World Rankings) Several graduates have been recipients of university scholarships, not only to universities such as the University of Auckland, but also to universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton and Cambridge
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