THE UNITED KINGDOM
APPLICATION DEADLINES
October 15: if your application includes medicine, veterinary science, dentistry, and/or either Cambridge or Oxford.
January15: in most other cases, but plan to have your application completed by mid-December at the latest.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Study your options through UCAS Search. Study the IB entry requirements for the courses that interest you. Decide on a course to which you would like to apply. It is generally a very good policy to contact every university to which you would like to apply beforehand, just to express your interest and to double-check that all your IB subjects meet their requirements (this is especially true if you are taking Mathematical Studies and/or English B). Do this even if UCAS and/or the uni website make no mention of any specific subject requirements.
2. Complete your predicted grades worksheet with your teachers. Discuss with them how you are doing, what grades you need to get into your chosen courses, and what your predicted grade might be. Take notes on what advice they give for improvement where necessary.
3. Choose a maximum of five universities that offer that course to which you would like to apply. One can be Cambridge or Oxford, but you can't apply to both. Discuss your options with your parents. Complete your final college list worksheet indicating the universities, courses, and entry requirements (usually an overall point total, specific higher level courses, and specific final grades in higher level courses).
4. Study the steps to the UCAS application process.
5. When you have familiarized yourself with the process, go to the UCAS Apply website and click on “Apply for YYYY courses” (where "YYYY" stands for the year in which you will enter university in the UK) and then "Register."
6. In the course of registration, you will need to indicate that you are applying through a school or college and then give your school’s “password.” The QAIS password for the current 12th grade is available from me.
7. Information to keep in a safe place: your UCAS ID number (10 digits; needed for communication with UCAS and universities), your UCAS user name, and your password.
8. For each of the sections of your application, you should save your work often. When you have finished it, you should click on "section completed." You will not be able to send your application to your referee until you have checked "section completed" for all sections.
9. PERSONAL DETAILS:
*Reference numbers - You will probably not have a unique learner number.
*Date of first entry to UK: Either the date you started living there (if you ever did) or the date you will start studying there (like 1 Sept. after graduation)
*Fee code: you will probably choose "private finance."
*Nominated access: Possibly a parent or another adult who you would like to discuss your application with UCAS and/or universities.
Important: UCAS and universities generally want to communicate directly with you, the student, not with anyone else. If you have decisions to make, you will need to be available to do so. The nominated access person is just the one to speak with UCAS or a university if there are some serious problems that you have not been able to resolve yourself.
10. STUDENT FINANCE:
Read the information available, and then check to say that you have done so.
11. CHOICES:
You can make a maximum of five choices for universities (known as "providers"). Of these five, a maximum of four can be for medicine. You can also apply to either Cambridge or Oxford, but not both. For each choice, you will need to name the university (from the drop-down list) and the course. Pay careful attention to the minor differences in course names and codes!
12. EDUCATION:
When you are adding your qualifications, just choose "IB Diploma," and then add each of your 8 subjects (remember TOK and your EE) as "modules."
For your group 1 subject(s), be sure to choose something like "English (or Italian) A: Literature (first exams May 2013)."
For your EE, choose the subject in which you wrote it (like "Biology") as the subject, and then choose "EE" as the level. If you choose "EE" as the subject, the universities may not be able to determine which subject you wrote it in.
Give July of the year you will graduate as the year of your qualification and list all grades as "pending" (because unless you took an anticipated IB exam, you will not know your results until July). Highest level of qualification you will have received: "below honors degree level."
13. EMPLOYMENT:
Leave blank if you have never worked.
14. PERSONAL STATEMENT:
Please make sure that you first study and plan for your statement. This will take the most time and deserves your best effort! Then type it elsewhere, save it, edit it, and get feedback from several trusted adults on it before uploading it here! You will not be able to click on "section complete" until you have clicked on "preview."
15. REFERENCE:
There will be only one person writing a letter of reference for you (unlike the US, where usually at least two people must write a reference.) When you have confirmed with the faculty member who will be your reference writer, you must inform me so I can link your application to the referee. Plan ahead! Your reference writer will usually need at least a month to prepare a thorough, thoughtful letter!
16. REVIEW, PAY, SEND:
These are the last three steps. The payment option only becomes available to you when you choose to send. When you "send," however, you are only sending to your reference writer, not to UCAS! Your reference writer will then review your application and approve it. If he/she finds mistakes, he/she can unlock it and send it back to you. When he/she approves your application, he/she will add your predicted grades and your letter of reference, and THEN send it to UCAS. You will then receive an email from UCAS confirming that your application has been received.
17. TRACK your application, and be sure to meet all deadlines for responding to offers.
October 15: if your application includes medicine, veterinary science, dentistry, and/or either Cambridge or Oxford.
January15: in most other cases, but plan to have your application completed by mid-December at the latest.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Study your options through UCAS Search. Study the IB entry requirements for the courses that interest you. Decide on a course to which you would like to apply. It is generally a very good policy to contact every university to which you would like to apply beforehand, just to express your interest and to double-check that all your IB subjects meet their requirements (this is especially true if you are taking Mathematical Studies and/or English B). Do this even if UCAS and/or the uni website make no mention of any specific subject requirements.
2. Complete your predicted grades worksheet with your teachers. Discuss with them how you are doing, what grades you need to get into your chosen courses, and what your predicted grade might be. Take notes on what advice they give for improvement where necessary.
3. Choose a maximum of five universities that offer that course to which you would like to apply. One can be Cambridge or Oxford, but you can't apply to both. Discuss your options with your parents. Complete your final college list worksheet indicating the universities, courses, and entry requirements (usually an overall point total, specific higher level courses, and specific final grades in higher level courses).
4. Study the steps to the UCAS application process.
5. When you have familiarized yourself with the process, go to the UCAS Apply website and click on “Apply for YYYY courses” (where "YYYY" stands for the year in which you will enter university in the UK) and then "Register."
6. In the course of registration, you will need to indicate that you are applying through a school or college and then give your school’s “password.” The QAIS password for the current 12th grade is available from me.
7. Information to keep in a safe place: your UCAS ID number (10 digits; needed for communication with UCAS and universities), your UCAS user name, and your password.
8. For each of the sections of your application, you should save your work often. When you have finished it, you should click on "section completed." You will not be able to send your application to your referee until you have checked "section completed" for all sections.
9. PERSONAL DETAILS:
*Reference numbers - You will probably not have a unique learner number.
*Date of first entry to UK: Either the date you started living there (if you ever did) or the date you will start studying there (like 1 Sept. after graduation)
*Fee code: you will probably choose "private finance."
*Nominated access: Possibly a parent or another adult who you would like to discuss your application with UCAS and/or universities.
Important: UCAS and universities generally want to communicate directly with you, the student, not with anyone else. If you have decisions to make, you will need to be available to do so. The nominated access person is just the one to speak with UCAS or a university if there are some serious problems that you have not been able to resolve yourself.
10. STUDENT FINANCE:
Read the information available, and then check to say that you have done so.
11. CHOICES:
You can make a maximum of five choices for universities (known as "providers"). Of these five, a maximum of four can be for medicine. You can also apply to either Cambridge or Oxford, but not both. For each choice, you will need to name the university (from the drop-down list) and the course. Pay careful attention to the minor differences in course names and codes!
12. EDUCATION:
When you are adding your qualifications, just choose "IB Diploma," and then add each of your 8 subjects (remember TOK and your EE) as "modules."
For your group 1 subject(s), be sure to choose something like "English (or Italian) A: Literature (first exams May 2013)."
For your EE, choose the subject in which you wrote it (like "Biology") as the subject, and then choose "EE" as the level. If you choose "EE" as the subject, the universities may not be able to determine which subject you wrote it in.
Give July of the year you will graduate as the year of your qualification and list all grades as "pending" (because unless you took an anticipated IB exam, you will not know your results until July). Highest level of qualification you will have received: "below honors degree level."
13. EMPLOYMENT:
Leave blank if you have never worked.
14. PERSONAL STATEMENT:
Please make sure that you first study and plan for your statement. This will take the most time and deserves your best effort! Then type it elsewhere, save it, edit it, and get feedback from several trusted adults on it before uploading it here! You will not be able to click on "section complete" until you have clicked on "preview."
15. REFERENCE:
There will be only one person writing a letter of reference for you (unlike the US, where usually at least two people must write a reference.) When you have confirmed with the faculty member who will be your reference writer, you must inform me so I can link your application to the referee. Plan ahead! Your reference writer will usually need at least a month to prepare a thorough, thoughtful letter!
16. REVIEW, PAY, SEND:
These are the last three steps. The payment option only becomes available to you when you choose to send. When you "send," however, you are only sending to your reference writer, not to UCAS! Your reference writer will then review your application and approve it. If he/she finds mistakes, he/she can unlock it and send it back to you. When he/she approves your application, he/she will add your predicted grades and your letter of reference, and THEN send it to UCAS. You will then receive an email from UCAS confirming that your application has been received.
17. TRACK your application, and be sure to meet all deadlines for responding to offers.
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