Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge and more: how YCIS guidance open doors to prestigious universities worldwide

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At Yew Chung International School of Hong Kong (YCIS HK), a university offer is not a finish line but the first step in a life of service. The Class of 2026 demonstrates this belief: as of mid-April, graduates have secured places at Oxford (Law), Cambridge (Geography), Harvard (Environmental Science & Engineering), Stanford (Economics and Environmental Systems Engineering), Peking University (Law), Tsinghua University (Aeronautical and Astronautical) and many other world-class institutions. 

These headline offers are part of a wider achievement (as at 16 April) that includes 124 acceptances from Hong Kong’s three flagship universities — the University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — along with 23 places in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and 129 offers from research intensive Russell Group universities in the United Kingdom.

As the 2026 global university admission season continues, students across the wider Yew Chung Yew Wah Education Network (YCYW), of which YCIS HK is a part, have already received more than 900 offers from leading universities such as Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Tsinghua University, Peking University, the University of Hong Kong, KAIST and Parsons School of Design.

Behind each offer is a journey shaped by rigorous academics, global awareness and compassionate action. Three YCIS Hong Kong graduates — Fiona Fan, Amos Cheng and Hilary Leung — show how these elements combine to create lives of purpose.

Fiona Fan’s dual passion for sustainability and data science earned her places at Cambridge for Geography, Stanford for Economics and UC Berkeley for Environmental Sciences. She began at YCIS Beijing in primary school before moving to Hong Kong and credits “meaningful extracurricular engagement” for sharpening her thinking. Years driving the campus greening project and leading climate initiatives turned classroom theories into real-world solutions and cultivated a systems-thinking mindset.