Early Admissions Scheme (Hong Kong)

Early Admissions Scheme (Hong Kong)

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.