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Congratulations to Alice YeolMae Pak from ISA Wuhan School on her offers and scholarships to the world's top music and theatre schools! Alice has gained admission to the Royal Academy of Music (University of London) and has been shortlisted by the Royal College of Music, which is ranked number one in the world in terms of music colleges and represents the highest achievement of music colleges in the world!

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The Royal Academy of Music, one of the University of London's franchised colleges, or RAM for short, is located adjacent to Regent's Park and was founded in 1822. Not only is it a long-established conservatoire, it is also widely regarded as the Oxford University of all the music conservatories in the world. The Royal Academy, now 201 years old, is consistently ranked in the top three in the world, higher than Juilliard and Curtis. The Royal Academy's unique audition process involves a second-round interview with its academic staff. The RAM seeks musicians who not only play or sing at a very high standard but also are strong academics in music theory and history. The RAM has the reputation of having the lowest admissions rate globally.

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The Royal College of Music was established in 1882, founded by King Edward VII (1841-1910), and its current headmaster is the newly crowned King Charles III. According to the QS Rankings 2023, the Royal College of Music (RCM) is not only ranked No.1 in the UK but also ranked No.1 in Europe and No.1 in the world for performing arts. The Royal College is widely regarded as the Cambridge University of all music conservatories. It is located next to the world-renowned Royal Albert Hall - the home of the largest summer music festival in the world - the BBC Proms.

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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, a higher education institution dedicated to teaching in the field of music and theatre, was established in 1845 and has a long history. According to the statistics of HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) in 2018, the school has a 99.2% employment rate for graduates, which is ranked first in Scotland. For the last two consecutive years it has been ranked in the top five in the world by the QS World University Rankings (QS World University Rankings).

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The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is ranked sixth in the world in the field of performing arts and is widely regarded as the British equivalent of Imperial College London. It has an overall acceptance rate of 10 per cent, with the acceptance rate for violin and piano being similar to that for computer science at around 3 per cent. The Guildhall School of Music is adjacent to the London Symphony Orchestra, which is recognised as one of the world's top three symphony orchestras, alongside the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Behind Alice's dream of attending a prestigious school is the hard work she has put in day and night, and the teachers and comrades who have accompanied her along the way have also given Alice the confidence to compete in the world.

Thanks to the strong resources of ISA Wuhan, at the age of 16, Alice was able to study violin technique with Dr. Nelson Wu, former principal violinist of the London Symphony Orchestra with a PhD degree at the King's College London and the Royal Academy of Music. Dr Wu is currently ISA Wuhan's Director of Music. In this semester alone, Alice had over 300 hours of lessons, rehearsals and recording sessions on campus. As a versatile musician, Alice studies Music Production with Professor Hans Tutschku, Director of Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) and Composer & Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music at the Harvard University Department of Music. Alice also sings and plays guitar, drum kit and keyboard.

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In order to help students plan for their future professional development, ISA Wuhan relies on the school's elite faculty to provide Alice with an exclusive 1v1 customised path to further education, prepare for mock interviews, and invite experts and professors from the world's top schools to provide Alice with individual coaching on musical ability and university professional guidance.

In addition, we invited experts and professors from the world's top schools to give Alice individual music coaching and professional guidance. Among them, Professor David Chan, the principal violinist of the New York MET Orchestra, winner of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Prize, and current professor of the Juilliard School of Music, conducted a masterclass on the violin for Alice, who is one of the four students in the world who can enter the masterclass with Professor Chan.

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Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, Professor Daniel Chua conducted a special session on university guidance with Alice. Professor Chua was a Senior Research Fellow at Yale University, a Henry Fellow at Harvard University, a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Corresponding Fellow at the UK Academy of Sciences. Prof. Chua was also a recipient of the Royal Society of Music's Dent Medal, the UK's highest scholarship, and is the current President of the International Musicological Society. Prof. Chua was most generous with his time and shared many personal anecdotes at Cambridge, Harvard and Yale. Alice was most fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Chua during her Guildhall audition in Hong Kong.

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In addition to the guidance of professional experts and master teachers in the classroom, ISA Wuhan is committed to helping all students broaden their horizons and cultivate an international outlook, so that all students can grow up to be "future musicians" from ISA to world-renowned music colleges or top universities under the concept of "holistic education".

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During the 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival Gathering of Hong Kong Enterprises and Businesses in Hubei Province, Mrs Carrie Lam, the 5th Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Permanent Honorary President of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in Hubei Province, visited Wuhan, and in the subsequent dinner performance, together with the political and business leaders from all over the world and representatives of the Friends from all corners of the world, they appreciated the live performances of Alice's two violin pieces Fly Me to the Moon and Dynamite, and expressed their support and recognition of the excellent music programme and the diversified academic and teaching environment of ISA Wuhan School and expressed their support and recognition of the excellent music programme and the diverse academic and teaching environment of ISA Wuhan. They hoped that ISA Wuhan would continue to uphold its philosophy of student-centred education and promote multi-cultural integration, so that more children could explore their interests and talents and become the best version of themselves.

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With more acceptance reports coming soon, we would like to congratulate Alice on her dream of becoming an Emperor, and wish more students in Wuhan will continue to overcome the obstacles on the road to realising their dreams and transcending themselves, and no matter what kind of challenges they are facing in the future, ISA Wuhan School will be your permanent support and partner. In the future, let us explore, achieve and practice together, so that the world will be better because of us!