After a successful campus reopening for our Elementary and Middle School day students to finish the 2019–2020 academic year, we are eager to have our entire student body back on campus and very much look forward to a safe and productive fall semester. Review our opening presentation to learn about the current situation in Switzerland; our quarantining, testing, and tracing plans; our safety measures on campus; our plans to return to live classroom instruction; and our policies with regard to travel and athletics. See the presentation TASIS students scored a 4 or higher on more than half of the 178 Advanced Placement exams they took this spring, and 24 students earned AP Scholar Awards. Learn more The average score posted by the 48 TASIS students who obtained an IB Diploma in 2020 was 32.6, exceeding the worldwide average by 2.7 points. Learn about this year's results and the unique circumstances surrounding the 2020 IB grades. Read the article TASIS students driven to find a home at an outstanding university can do so by pursuing an IB Diploma or by taking a number of AP courses and scoring highly on the corresponding exams. They may further bolster their candidacy by performing well on standardized tests, writing excellent personal statements, and exhibiting an impressive commitment to a combination of the arts, athletics, local and global service, and leadership positions on or off campus. In short, there are many paths to success at TASIS. Over the course of the next few months, we will be shining a spotlight on a number of exemplary students from the Class of 2020. We start with the five below. After a remarkable eight years at TASIS, Valedictorian and top IB scorer Giulia Meregalli (Italy) plans to enroll in either the Department of Land Economy at Cambridge University or the Bioprocessing of New Medicines program at University College London. Read about Giulia After 13 years at TASIS, AP Scholar Hanna Osgood (France/USA) applied early to Boston University and was happy to accept an offer from the private research university, where she will seek a degree in Political Science. Read about Hanna After two excellent years at TASIS, Enzo Tondo (Brazil) has decided to return to his home country for his post-secondary studies and is setting his sights on Insper, one of the most prestigious schools of business, economics, and engineering in all of Latin America. Read about Enzo A trilingual scholar and exceptional history student, Maria Mastronardi (Italy) selected King's College London over one of the world's top hospitality schools, École hôtelière de Lausanne. Read about Maria IB Visual Arts standout Zoe Wang (China) will seek a degree in Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King's College London after also considering offers from three other excellent schools in London: University College London (UCL), Goldsmiths University, and Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London. Read about Zoe Admissions Video Meetings Would you like to chat about the upcoming year with a member of our Admissions Team? Please click on the button below to schedule a video meeting. November 20, 2020 The Yale Club, New York City, NY, USA March 27, 2021 San Francisco, California, USA TASIS THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN SWITZERLAND |