Distinguishing Features
A campus that is closed off by gate and walls, that restricts entry to students.
What is a Traditional Campus?
With this type of admission option, applicants apply early, find out early, but is non-binding.
What is Early Action
(REA, SCEA)
This has replaced the BMAT as the test required at Oxford for Medicine applicants.
What is the UCAT?
Known by this other name, the Bachelor's degree is the first degree you can obtain after high school.
What is an undergraduate degree?
Booking appointments with Ms Wilkins and Ms Ugolini is really easy if you use this.
What is Calendly?
This type of university is usually fairly large and consists of different departments often called 'colleges'.
Ex. Univ. of Illinois has the College of Law, College of Engineering, College of Business, College of Agriculture.
What are Research Universities
35 points or 766
What is a 'Conditional Offer'?
ie; King's
If you are applying to a US university that requires testing, this is the optimal time to take your first official attempt.
Canada is known for pioneering this option for real life practical experience during an undergraduate degree.
What is Co-op?
To ensure success in the IB program and well-being, the number of university applications a student can submit is limited.
What is 10 applications?
This type of curriculum has a set plan of study that includes mandatory courses in different subjects that all students must take in order to graduate.
Ex. Columbia University
What is Core Curriculum
In the UK and Canada to study Psychology you'll need this explosive subject?
What is Chemistry?
Want to study Law in the UK? You can apply to all but 9 without this.
What is the LNAT
Medicine/Law are not an undergraduate option in these (and other) countries?
What is Canada and the US?
(other countries also accepted)
Though you might be able to apply to more than one program at one university, you'll eventually hit this limit if you are applying to UCAS.
What is a maximum of 5 applications?
(Medicine 4 +1)
In this type of curriculum, students do not have to meet course requirements - either in the form of specific, mandatory courses or distribution requirements - in order to graduate.
Ex. Brown University
What is an Open Curriculum
This term refers to an applicant who has one or more immediate family member attending or graduated from the college or university to which he or she is applying.
What is Legacy
This testing policy allows applicants to submit various combinations of standardized test scores to support their application.
What is a Flexible Testing Policy
Ex. NYU
Choose whether to start in July or Feb with this destination.
What is Australia?
This university career platform helps student research universities, build their lists and complete tasks that will help them in their university application journey.
What is Maia Learning?
This type of Educational Institution emphasizes undergraduate education (as opposed to producing research). Students generally pick one course of study to focus on, while also taking courses in other diverse subjects.
What are Liberal Arts Colleges
With this type of admissions option, students apply early to their first-choice college, and if accepted they must attend (and withdraw ALL other applications worldwide).
What is Early Decision?
This testing policy offers students the option of whether or not to submit SAT or ACT scores. The rules vary from college to college.
What is Test Optional
This US university system has it's own application and dedicated deadline, different from all other universities in the country.
What is the University of California (UC)?
After thorough research into a wide range of universities, you will enter the summer break with this.
What is a long list?