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The Early Admission Scheme (or simply "EAS"), held by the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong SAR, China. was a subsystem of the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS), between academic year 2002/03 to 2010/11. It enables students to enter the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong or the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology without sitting for the HKALE. Candidates with 6 or more "A"s (Distinctions) in the HKCEE, with level 4 or above in English Language, and also level 4 or above in Chinese Language or "C" or above in French or Putonghua, are eligible for applying the Early Admission Scheme which may grant them the admission to the aforementioned institutions without the need to sit for the HKALE. Each year only 400-500 candidates are eligible to join the scheme. Most of them will attend university after they finish their Form 6-year study. The others that are doing Form 7 and taking the HKALE are usually those who either fail to enter their desired programme via the EAS, or plan to study abroad as some overseas universities do not accept applications with only HKCEE results. There were extremely rare cases in which students eligible for the scheme, are given an independent offer shortly after the announcement of HKCEE results, allowing them to enter the university immediately rather than after Form 6, far before the scheme opens to them. They are not counted as applicants of the EAS even they are granted "Early Admissions" like EAS applicants. Unlike EAS students, these students are usually given an extra year of foundation courses when they enter the university. After the last HKCEE examination for school candidates had been launched in 2010. The scheme's is likely to be abolished after 2011. However, some institutes considered some other procedures as a replacement. ==The scheme== By the number of ''actual'' intakes, the EAS is the biggest subsystem of JUPAS (roughly about 3-5% of total JUPAS intakes). It aims at providing flexibility to outstanding Secondary 6 students to be admitted to the three institutions participating in the scheme. Applicants must achieve the requirements in one sitting of the HKCEE or other qualifying examinations. Applicants will be invited to information sessions held by the three participating universities on specific dates in order to help them in choosing the universities and programmes. On submission, applicants may select up to three programmes per university, making it a total maximum of nine programmes. Applicants will then be invited to attend an interview by respective institutions. Usually only the first programme in the priority order of each institution will provide a subject-based interview but there are various exceptional cases. After the interviews applicants will receive feedbacks from the universities before they make their final choices. A few weeks after the interviews, applicants will be required to draw up a final list of iteration. The list should consist of a maximum of 5 programmes. The programmes in the list are divided into two bands, with the programmes in the first two priority order being Band A and the other three being Band B. Successful applicants will only receive one offer which is the highest priority on their programme list. Theoretically, to prevent domination in some popular "elite" programmes, hence causing unfairness to main stream entrants, no programme should admit more the 1/3 EAS students to its total JUPAS intakes. An existence of such system made a few students may end up not being offered to their desired programme, though in most cases they will accept the less-desired offer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Early Admissions Scheme (Hong Kong)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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