Sunway’s CIMP Celebrates its 45th Graduation Ceremony

At the most recent Sunway Canadian International Matriculation Programme (CIMP) graduation ceremony, 96 graduates obtained a CGPA of 80% and above, and they achieved the Honour Roll status. Overall, a total of 266 graduates received their Ontario Secondary School Diploma or the OSSD, an internationally recognised qualification. These students will join the thousands of graduates preceding them who have graduated from the CIMP and continued their education in over 140 universities worldwide.

Pieter Chauhari receiving his diploma from Robb Stewart, Second Secretary (Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Service), High Commission of Canada in Malaysia

Top student, Pieter Chauhari from Indonesia who graduated with an overall average of 95.67%, will be pursuing his Business and Commerce degree at Monash University. Lim Jin Young, who received the Harvard Prize Book Award 2013, graduated with an overall average of 95%. He intends to pursue Social Science and Humanities in US, Japan or Taiwan. Jin Young is currently waiting for offers from his university applications.

Recipient of the Harvard Prize Book Award 2013-Lim Jin Young

While their CIMP diploma provides guaranteed entry to a university of their choice, each graduate’s real success is marked by their highly developed critical thinking and problem solving skills, their ability to work collaboratively, and their confidence as strong effective communicators.

Valedictorian Lau Jun Yee, in his address sums up his experience at Sunway, “But I do hope that whichever corner of the world that we end up in after this, that we would not forget the lessons learnt here and the friendships that we have built. I pray that we look back fondly at the time we spent here. That one day if someone asks, we can proudly say that we were from that pre-university course that contrary to popular belief, is NOT the easiest. We would proudly say that we were from that one course that was 70% coursework, 30% exams and 100% awesome. We would proudly say that WE were from CIMP.”

Valedictorian-Lau Jun Yee

The CIMP at Sunway has earned itself the distinction of not only being one of the largest OSSD schools in the world, but also one of the most diverse, with students coming from more than 70 countries, including Australia, Kenya, Japan, Korea, China, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, as well as Middle Eastern countries. CIMP delivers a rigorous academic programme leading to university studies along with the opportunity to grow socially and culturally through involvement in many of the extra-curricular activities offered.

This year, Sunway’s CIMP students have been actively contributing to society through various fundraising projects. Students in the Business Leadership classes through the sale of food products raised RM6,458 for the World Food Programme. And recently, in responding to the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, CIMP lecturers and students chipped in and collected RM9,958 in cash. This together with boxes of canned food and water were donated to the Typhoon Haiyan Relief efforts in November. CIMP students had also together with other Pre-U students raised RM5,000 for the ‘Make the Difference’ charity sale organised by Puan Sri Susan Cheah, where all funds collected went to the Scholarship Programme for Underprivileged Children.