Congratulations

Congratulation to Zhang Xuanyi(Xuan) who received an EA admissionfrom Tulane University and was also awarded 12,000 USD scholarship per year.

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Tulane University  

No. 42 ranking in 2019 U.S. News Report 

The only campus-based Energy Equity Trading Center in U.S.

The oldest public health course in U.S.

The only tropical medical school in U.S.

Tulane University is a well-known private research university in the United States，which is located in the famous international commercial port of Louisiana in thesouth of the United States and the southern cultural city of New Orleans. The school was founded as a public medical college in 1834, and became acomprehensive university in 1847. The institution was made private under theendowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane is the 9th oldest private university in the Association of American Universities,which consists of major research universities in the United States and Canada.The Tulane University Law School and Tulane University Medical School areconsidered the 12th oldest and 15th oldest law and medical schools,respectively, in the United States.

Tulane's education and research cover a wide range of professional fields. In recent years, it is famous for its business schools and medical schools. Tulane’s energy equity trading center is the only specialty of its kind which was set up on campus in the United States. It is also worth mentioning that the Public Health and Tropical Medicine School havethe oldest public health course in the United States and the only tropical medical school in the United States.

Tulane is unique among universities in the United States in its academic organization in that all undergraduates are enrolled in Newcomb-Tulane College as well as being registered in the School which housestheir major. Newcomb-Tulane College serves as an administrative center for all aspects of undergraduate life at Tulane.

Since the establishment of Tulane University, it has won many academic and industry achievements. Two of the alumni and teachers won the Nobel Prize, five of them won the Pulitzer Prize. Their alumni comefrom all around the world, for example Yahoo co-founders and former CNN chiefs.The executive, the former CEO of Shell Oil Group, the President of Costa Ricaand other elites around the world.

About Xuan

Xuan has studied in SIFC since Grade 8 and was one of the excellent students in the first graduating class in middle school that year. In the daily contact, Xuan is an optimistic, proactive, thoughtful and caring young man. He is also popular among his peers as he is humorous and always ready to help others whenever they are needed.

Xuan impresses others with his active involvement in making his community a better place. Understanding the importance of family relationships, he initiated a teenage forum where he shared stories, articles and comments to facilitate the parent-child relationship. With the achievement of successfully impacting more than fifty families, he was invited to an audio show about parent-child relationships with his own parents, where he was also able to influence other families. Moreover, Xuan has been regularly helping autistic children with their educational enrichment for over two years.

Xuan also made most of his time in vocations tofully develop himself. In Grade 9, he went to Columbia University to study psychology courses. In Grade 10, he enrolled in Harvard University's summercourse- chemistry. While in Grade 11, he participated in CIS research on Japanese society and he wrote a ten-page paper about that subject. In these activities, his high academic ability and the advantage of strong English proficiency were fully demonstrated.

It is also worth mentioning that Xuan is the leaderof the school drama club and has already directed and acted in several plays which were shown on school event days. He is also the bass of the school Capella team where he displays his singing skills and participates in all kinds of performances.

In all, SIFC has witnessed Xuan's great progress in the past few years and we believe that he could seek more opportunities and platforms to develop and promote himself.

Let's expect more good news from Xuan.