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FALL 2007 SCHOOL PROFILE

NATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL HIGH SCHOOL
BILINGUAL DEPARTMENT

#300 Jie-Shou Rd. Hsinchu City 30077 Taiwan, R.O.C.
http://bilingual.nehs.hc.edu.tw/

Principal: Rong-feng Wu, Ph.D.
Director: Christine Huang
College Counselor: Karel Van B		 Tel: 886-3-577-8560
Tel: 886-3-577-7011 ext. 280
Tel: 886-3-564-1405		 Fax: 886-3-578-1813
Fax: 886-3-578-5565
Fax: 886-3-564-1405		 E-mail: feng@mail.nehs.hc.edu.tw
E-mail: chuang@mail.nehs.hc.edu.tw
E-mail: karelvanb@hotmail.com
CEEB/ACT: 694246
School and Community
National Experimental High School (NEHS), situated in Taiwan’s “Silicon Valley”, the high-tech Science-Based Industrial Park, is a public, coeducational school (preprimary-12). The school is multi-cultural in that four of the departments are for local Chinese and adopt the Taiwan (ROC) national curriculum, while the Bilingual Department (1-12) serves students in the English-speaking community who either seek an American college-preparatory education or plan to transfer to the local school system. Students come from business, professional, government and diplomatic families. Forty-seven percent of the Bilingual Department parents have Ph.D.’s. Of a total school enrollment of 3007, the Bilingual Department has 565 students, of whom 299 carry US passports. This year’s senior class has 51 students.
Accreditation
National Experimental High School is accredited by the ROC Ministry of Education and is administered by both the ROC Ministry of Education and the National Science Council. The Bilingual Department is operated as a magnet program.
Faculty
The Bilingual Department has 60 certified full-time teachers. Forty have Master’s degrees; two have Ph.D.’s. Nationalities include Chinese (38), American (19), and Canadian (3). The average teaching experience of the faculty is fourteen years. The ratio of certified faculty to students is 1:10.
Grading Scale
The Bilingual Department’s grading scale and GPA points are outlined on the student transcript. Highest GPA in the class and average class GPA are also listed on the transcript. The GPA includes all classes taken in the Bilingual Department from grade 9 and is on a 4.0 weighted scale. New seniors are not included in class rankings, while the rest of seniors are ranked by their accumulated GPA from Gr. 9~12.
Curriculum
Our students face a rigorous five-day week, demanding instructors, and a fully bilingual (English and Mandarin) curriculum. The highly competitive and challenging program is reflected in somewhat lower GPA’s than might usually be expected. NEHS operates on a semester system with a 200 day school year, beginning in late August and dismissing in late June. There are prerequisites for all AP classes with the exception of AP Social Studies which is open to any interested student.

English:
Taught by native speakers, our upper school English program is a college-preparatory course of study. The entire program is literature-based with intensive grammar, vocabulary, and composition strands, all of which stress the writing process. Courses are: Genre Approach to Literature (9), American Literature (10), British Literature (11), and World Literature (12). Since 1995, an honors option has been available in grade nine. In grades ten and eleven an honors section is offered.

Chinese:
Taught by local teachers, our intensive, total immersion Chinese program (Grade 1-12) takes students from their entry levels to the highest levels they can attain in the time they study here. For class of 2007, Chinese levels 10, 11, and 12 are equivalent to AP Chinese courses. Textbooks are the same as those used by students in local schools. From level 7 ~ 9, Chinese classes are counted as honors courses.

Mathematics:
Geometry (H), Algebra II and Trigonometry (H), Pre-calculus, Analytic Geometry and Probability & Statistics (H), Statistics. Honors Mathematics students continue to AP Calculus AB/BC in grade twelve.

Science:
Biology, Chemistry, Physics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics B/C (12).

Social Studies:
World Geography (9), US History (10), World History (11), US Government and Politics (12), AP US Government and Politics (12), AP US History(12), AP European History, AP Psychology, AP Economics(Micro/Macro)

Electives:
The program varies from year to year. The Class of 2007 seniors has had the opportunity to take the following courses: Drama, Painting, Choir, French, Japanese, Creative Writing, Earth Science, Studio Art, Cooking, Current Events, Art of Craft, Business and Management, AP Computer Science, AP Environmental Science, and AP Statistics.
AP COURSE OFFERINGS 

Biology
Chemistry
Physics B/C
US History		 Calculus AB/BC
English
Psychology
Chinese
Computer Science
Environment Science
European History
Economics Micro/Macro
US Government Politics
AP SCHOOL-WIDE RESULTS MAY 2006 

146 students took 276 exams

Score of 5___36%
Score of 4___15%
Score of 3___18%
Score of 2___13%
Score of 1___18%
AVERAGE = 3.37

HONORS COURSES
English 9-11
Mathematics 9-11
Chinese 7-12
World History 11

 Class of 2007 College Board Score Distribution: SAT Results 

Verbal
12
12
6
0
1		 Math
21
6
4
0
0		 Writing
9
14
6
1
1		 Score
700-800
600-690
500-590
400-490
300-390

Senior SAT Average
Verbal:654
Math:696
Writing:640
Note 1 : Seniors may carry five AP classes; grades 10 and 11 students, because of their Chinese language requirements, may only take one AP course each year
Note 2: For class of 2007, Chinese levels 10, 11, and 12 are equivalent to AP Chinese courses.
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCE AND MATRICULATION
CLASSES OF 2003 THROUGH 2006
American University
Amherst College
Augustana College*
Babson College*
Boston College
Boston University*
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Brown University*
California Institute of Technology
California Lutheran University*
Carnegie-Mellon University*
Case Western Reserve University*
Clark University*
College of William and Mary*
Columbia University*
Cornell University*
Dartmouth College
De Anza College*
Duke University*
Emerson College*
Emory University*
Georgetown University*
George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Grinnell College*
Hampshire College*
Harvard College*
Harvey Mudd College*
Ithaca College
Johns Hopkins University*
Knox College*
Lehigh University		 Massachusetts Institute of Technology*
Miami University (Ohio)*
Mount Holyoke College*
New York University*
Northwestern University*
Oberlin College*
Ohio State University
Ohio Wesleyan University
Penn State Berks*
Pennsylvania State University*
Pomona College*
Princeton University
Purdue University
Rice University*
Rochester Institute of Technology
San Francisco State University*
Smith College*
Stanford University*
State University of New York: Albany
State University of New York: Buffalo*
Syracuse University
Towson University*
Tufts University
University of California: Berkeley*
University of California: Irvine*
University of California: Los Angeles*
University of California: San Diego*
University of Chicago
University of Colorado: Boulder
University of Connecticut*
University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign*
University of Indiana: Bloomington
University of Maryland: College Park*
University of Massachusetts: Amherst*		 University of Miami*
University of Michigan: Ann Arbor*
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California*
University of Texas: Austin*
University of Virginia*
University of Washington*
University of Wisconsin: Madison*
University of Wisconsin:Milwaukee *
University of Wyoming*
Ursinus College*
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University*
Washington State University*
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University*
Yale University
Chinese Culture University: Taipei, Taiwan*
Chung Hua University: Hsinchu, Taiwan*
Ming Chuan University: Taipei, Taiwan*
National Chiao Tung University: Hsinchu, Taiwan*
Tatung University: Taipei, Taiwan*
Yuan Ze University: Chungli, Taiwan
University of Sydney: Australia*
Carleton University: Canada*
McGill University: Canada*
University of Toronto: Canada*
University Bocconi: Italy*
*Matriculation by member(s) of Classes of 2003-2006.
Ninety-nine percent of the graduates from 2000-2006 have been enrolled in four-year colleges or universities.