Distinguishing Features
Admissions
Testing
Know Your Stuff
Trust the Process
100

A campus that is closed off by gate and walls, that restricts entry to students.

What is a Traditional Campus?

 

100

With this type of admission option, applicants apply early, find out early, but is non-binding.

What is Early Action 


(REA, SCEA)

100

This has replaced the BMAT as the test required at Oxford for Medicine applicants.

What is the UCAT?

100

Known by this other name, the Bachelor's degree is the first degree you can obtain after high school.

What is an undergraduate degree?

100

Booking appointments with Ms Wilkins and Ms Ugolini is really easy if you use this.

What is Calendly?

200

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

200

35 points or 766

What is a 'Conditional Offer'?


ie; King's

200

If you are applying to a US university that requires testing, this is the optimal time to take your first official attempt.

What is Spring of Year 12?
200

Canada is known for pioneering this option for real life practical experience during an undergraduate degree.

What is Co-op?

200

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?

300

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

300

In the UK and Canada to study Psychology you'll need this explosive subject?

What is Chemistry?

300

Want to study Law in the UK? You can apply to all but 9 without this.

What is the LNAT

300

Medicine/Law are not an undergraduate option in these (and other) countries?

What is Canada and the US?

(other countries also accepted)

300

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)

400

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

400

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

400

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

400

Choose whether to start in July or Feb with this destination.

What is Australia?

400

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?

500

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

500

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?


500

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

500

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)?

500

After thorough research into a wide range of universities, you will enter the summer break with this.

What is a long list?