Ho Chi Minh City's 'hot' school no longer has overnight queues to buy application forms for first grade

Saigon University has just announced enrollment for grade 1 in the 2025-2026 school year at Practice Primary School according to high-quality, advanced educational content integrating regionally and internationally (2 main classes/day, including enrollment for integrated English classes).

Parents anxiously wait to buy application forms for grade 1 at Saigon University's Practice Primary School for the 2024-2025 school year.

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Specifically, in the 2025-2026 school year, the school will enroll 180 first graders (enrollment target increased by 30 students compared to the 2024-2025 school year).

The first grade admission subjects are children who are 6 years old (born in 2019). The school considers admission in the following order of priority: Children whose father or mother is a civil servant or employee currently working at Saigon University (based on the labor contract or application confirmed by the Personnel Department); Children whose father or mother is a civil servant or employee; Preschool children belonging to the remaining subjects.

This year, the Practical Primary School of Saigon University conducts the procedures for registering for grade 1 online, parents do not need to queue up to buy grade 1 application forms for their children at the school gate. Steps for the admission procedure:

1. Step 1: Register for admission. Parents register for their students online via the link: https://tuyensinhlop1.sgu.edu.vn or scan the QR-code to access the link. The school will consider admission based on the student's profile. Registration time: from May 22 (today) to before 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, May 23.
   
2. Step 2: Submit application. Parents who have registered for online admission for students (step 1) submit application from May 26 to May 27, the specific announcement time will be issued later. Application submission location is at Thuc Hanh Primary School of Saigon University (18-20 Ngo Thoi Nhiem, Vo Thi Sau Ward, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City).

In 2024, parents stayed up all night waiting in line to buy first grade application forms to enter the Practical Primary School of Saigon University.

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Application form for grade 1 of Saigon University's Practical Primary School

• Application for grade 1 admission (parents download the application after completing the online registration procedure);
  
• Birth certificate (copy issued from the original or certified copy from the original);
  
• Certificate of residence or current residence according to VNeID;
  
• Certificate of "Completion of 5-year-old preschool universal program" (copy does not need to be certified, if any).

The results of the first grade admission are expected to be announced on June 4. The school further notes that after May 27, those who do not submit their application or whose application is found to contain incorrect information compared to the admission regulations will have their names removed from the admission list.

The Practice Primary School of Saigon University was established in 2019. In previous school years, a familiar image during the first grade admission season was hundreds of parents lining up in front of the gate of this "hot" primary school to wait to buy first grade application forms for their children.

"Hot" elementary school, attracting many parents' attention

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For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the school only recruited 150 first graders, but the number of parents who wanted to send their children to the school was very large. To "be sure", many family members took turns lining up from the night of June 16, 2024 to get the first positions to wait to receive the first grade application for their children. Some parents waited more than 16 hours just to buy the first grade application. That was just the step of buying the application, the rest was not certain whether this parent's child would be admitted to the school's first grade or not.

Faced with the above situation, many readers have raised the question that Ho Chi Minh City is strongly transforming digitally, and the city's education and training sector's primary school admissions are carried out online very effectively. So why doesn't the Practice Primary School of Saigon University enroll students online but still maintains the method of distributing paper applications? And in this year's admissions season, this "hot" primary school has considered online admissions, accepting applications according to time frames, ending the scene of parents lining up all night to buy application forms for their children in grade 1.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/truong-nong-cua-tphcm-het-canh-xep-hang-xuyen-dem-mua-ho-so-vao-lop-1-185250522084222797.htm