Prior to the event we had asked students to pre-register online or over the phone to indicate their intention to attend, in Shanghai over 120 registered and in Hangzhou over 80. On the actual day of the expo, according to our records, a total of 177 students attended the Shanghai Expo and 100 went to the Hangzhou event. Given that it is likely students who neither pre-registered nor are recorded in our database attended the event, the total number is closer to 310. Accounting for the parents that accompanied most students, the number of attendees was over 500. 

    Most students attending the event were interested in graduate level study. While there were some Grade 12 students at the expo exploring alternatives to the College Entrance Examination, in general high school students were in the minority. A contributing factor to this phenomenon is likely the difference in timing between high schools in China and those in the US and UK. Whereas there are four years in US and UK schools, in China there are only three, this often to leads to complications in figuring out at which point a Chinese student should enter high school or to students repeating a year of school.