QUANTUM PREP INSIGHTS

A huge congratulations to our students this year! It has been an incredibly tough year for all – with the unpredictable COVID situation here in Hong Kong and the overall increase of applicants worldwide, our students still did unbelievably well and the results have been amazing!  Click here to see our full results from this year!  Quantum Prep is an education consultancy that focuses on placing their students at the best colleges or universities. We boast of diverse results. In

Congratulations to our 2022 students on their stellar results in the early rounds, with acceptances into Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, UCL, and more! You have all worked so incredibly hard in these unprecedented times!  Since the pandemic started, the UK university admissions landscape has changed tremendously. As consultants, it is our duty to know how these changes impact applications and help our students adapt to them. Below are the 3 main trends we have noticed so far!  1. Oxbridge has

Congratulations to our 2022 students on their stellar results in the early rounds, with acceptances into Yale, Princeton, University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, and more! You have all worked so incredibly hard in these unprecedented times!  Since the pandemic started, the US university admissions landscape has changed tremendously. As consultants, it is our duty to know what these changes and help our students adapt to them. Below are the 3 main trends we have noticed so far!  1. Universities

ED? ED2? EA? REA? RD? Wondering what these mean? Here’s a helpful guide to understanding the different options and how they impact your application.  Let’s start with the most commonly thrown around term: ED. ED refers to Early Decision. ED, as the name suggests, is when a student applies to a school early and finds out whether they were successful early. The ED deadline for most schools is November 1, but some schools may extend until mid-November. Most schools offer

‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ is a question that everyone gets asked a lot. This question was especially hard for me as a teenager because of my wildly varying interests and talents. I heavily considered doing medicine, science or music for my degree and this is the story of how I picked Chemistry as my major. Before I went to the UK for my A-levels, I considered studying medicine very seriously. In order to understand

‘Complete this problem sheet before the next tutorial.’ This is one of the very first things that my professor told me in Oxford. We, first year chemists, had no idea about what was about to hit us as we casually flipped through the problem sheet. It was surprisingly short. It wasn’t until we walked out of the meeting that we realised we had no clue on how to complete even a single one of the problems. We went to the