The College has established term time exchange programmes (for one term or one year) with a number of universities worldwide. The programmes provide students with opportunities to study abroad as an exchange student, in which they can exchange ideas with students of different cultures, and also can better understand the society and culture of other countries.
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Selection Process
Selection Process
- All applicants are being shortlisted based on academic performance, i.e. CUHK cumulative GPA / public examination results (eg. HKDSE ) for year one students.
- Shortlisted students will be invited for an interview. The applications can be considered unsuccessful if applicants cannot receive any invitation for interviews by the late November 2023.
- For those who would like to apply for exemption for interview (not applicable to Japan exchange programmes), they have to ask two referees to complete a recommendation form (
download) to support his/her request. All first year students cannot request for exemption for interview. The College reserves the final right to require a student to attend an interview. - A final score will be calculated for each shortlisted applicant. The calculation is as follows:
- The recommendation score is calculated from the scores provided by the referees.
- GPA score includes the examination result of 1st semester 2023-24.
- All raw scores (including recommendation score and GPA score) will be normalized and converted to standardized scores with the mean of 50 and the standard deviation of 10. The standardized scores will be used in the computation of the final score of the shortlisted applicants. Details of the calculation is as follows:
Step 1 – Normalizing raw scores of individual student
Recommendation scores, GPAs and interview scores of individual students are considered as raw scores in the normalization.
| Normalized score | = | Raw score of individual student – Mean of all shortlisted applicants’ scores Standard deviation of all shortlisted applicants’ scores |
Step 2 – Standardizing normalized scores of individual student
The normalized scores are converted to standardized scores with the mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10. The mean and standard deviation will be used in the calculation of standardized scores of all short-listed applicants in the selection.
| Standardized score | = | Normalized score of individual student X 10 + 50 |
Step 3 – Computing the final score of individual student
The standardized recommendation scores, GPAs and interview scores will be used to calculate final scores of applications.Different formulas will be used to calculate final scores as follows:
Final score = (Standardized GPA x 0.5) + (Standardized interview/recommendation score x 0.5)