Reputations and Achievements
Wa Ying College is considered a school with an excellent reputation both district-wide and territory-wide. All Form 1 student intakes are band 1 primary school graduates and competition for a place at Wa Ying is highly intense, the admittance ratio for the year 2007-2008 is 14:1. In the past HKAL era, a majority (regularly 85%+) of its Form 7 graduates were admitted to universities in Hong Kong every year. In 2012, with the fist HKDSE exam cycle, more than 60% of Wa Ying College's Form 6 graduates were admitted to local universities.
The school's policies are also known to be highly progressive. Since its re-founding in Hong Kong in 1971, all teachers have been involved in the school's administrative work and the making of school policies through the system of functional committees. The school also pioneered school counseling practices in Hong Kong by introducing social workers into the school and setting up peer counseling schemes . Most of the student welfare affairs have been managed by the democratically elected Student Union since 1992. Hong Kong Local History and Liberal Studies were also introduced into the school curriculum long before they became fashionable in Hong Kong education. In the upcoming introduction of new Senior Secondary Curriculum, Wa Ying College is one of the pioneer schools that offers Design and Applied Technology as a technology-based elective, while most other schools offer the more common electives such as Finance and Information Technology related subjects at the initial stage .
The school's teachers and students enjoy a very close-knit relationship together and there is a well known saying of "Once a Wa Ying member, forever you remain a Wa Ying member" (一日華英人，一生華英人。) among Wa Ying's students and alumni.
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