What It’s Really Like to Attend an International School in Asia

My first time flying economy was on a school ski trip to Geneva at the ripe age of eleven, the same age I received my first iPhone and almost skied off an alpine cliff (I would say I wish I was exaggerating but it’s an exhilarating story to tell). I’m gonna recycle a line from my UCAS personal statement here: I spent thirteen years at an international school and it has shaped me into the person I am today. I graduated from Shrewsbury International School in Bangkok in 2021 during peak covid season with a Zoom graduation ceremony. Since then, I have been to three universities (a story for another article) and, at almost twenty-three years old, the memories I have from my school years are still clear as day. I grew up in a bubble of world-class education, Chanel bags, and Ivy League ambitions mapped out by the age of fourteen. I know that thousands across the world share my experience — from Manila and Shanghai all the way to Oman. So, after an entire year of this idea sitting in my Google Docs, I felt like grabbing my laptop and publishing this for all of you.

To paint a picture of what I mean by world-class education, my graduating class of 2021 alone landed in a national publication (an annual occurrence) for securing over five hundred offers from leading universities — five to Oxbridge and three to the Ivy League. International school campuses are equipped with (…)

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