The International Department only admits foreign students, while the International Department recruits Chinese students, creating an outstanding application record is the International Curriculum Center of Renmin University Affiliated to the National People's University of China, or ICC for short. The ICC attached to the National People's Congress only admits children of Beijing nationality and nine categories of people, and must take the Beijing high school entrance examination, but there are precedents for accepting a small number of outstanding non-Beijing students in previous years.
Among the many international classes in Beijing, the ICC affiliated to the National People's Congress is undoubtedly the first echelon, but it is worth noting that the score line of ICC is nearly 20 points lower than that of the fourth middle school and experimental middle school, with a score of 543 points in 2017 and 545 points in 2016, which is equivalent to the second echelon. To explain this phenomenon, we have to start with the rich and comprehensive curriculum of the ICC attached to the National People's Congress.
The ICC of the National People's University of China offers three international curriculum programs, which are A-Level, AP and IBDP according to the opening time. In 2004, the Affiliated University of the National People's Congress took the lead in introducing the A-Level course, which also has the lowest academic requirements for students, with the largest number of students enrolled in each class, with 160 students enrolled in 2018. AP and IBDP programs put forward higher requirements for students' academic ability, and the high school entrance examination scores are also relatively high, with 80 students in AP programs and 60 students in IBDP programs. Generally speaking, after passing the additional test, students can choose the program according to their own wishes, students with high comprehensive scores have more room to choose, and students with low scores need to accept adjustments.
The Chinese teachers of the ICC affiliated to the National People's Congress are comparable to those of the headquarters, with strong educational backgrounds, all of whom graduated from famous universities at home and abroad, such as Chinese University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, etc. Chinese teachers also need to use English to teach, but occasionally use Chinese to assist in the class, which is more helpful for high school freshmen.
In international classes, foreign teachers are a problem that many parents are concerned about, but ICC does not have this problem, and there are even more foreign teachers than Chinese teachers. ICC has a rich foreign teaching staff, including outstanding teachers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Poland, India, the Philippines, Nepal, Kenya and other countries, all of whom have good academic backgrounds and international teaching experience. However, some foreign teachers come from non-native English speaking countries, especially A-Level programs, and there are certain accent problems when teaching, and students need a certain amount of time to adapt, while foreign teachers in the IBDP program are mainly British and American teachers.
From the first day of admission, students need to face all-English classes, and there is no transition period at all, so many students choose to preview the content of the new semester in the summer and memorize the professional terms in advance. In addition, in order to have better standardized test scores, most students will use their extracurricular time to participate in tutoring to brush up their scores. The National People's Congress is located in Zhongguancun, where many study abroad agents and training institutions are set up, so it is very convenient for ICC students to make up classes.
Over the years, the ICC of the National People's University has frequently made good news in university admissions, and has formed a good reputation in top universities in Europe and the United States, which has played a certain role in helping students' applications, and basically receives admissions from prestigious universities in the United Kingdom and the United States every year, such as Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, Duke University in the United States, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. In addition, due to the international evaluation of the ICC, the world's top university admissions officers often visit, which is also very helpful for students to prepare for their applications. ICC has its own college counseling center, but many students say that they still need to seek help from study abroad agencies during the application season.