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University Application

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Choosing the right university and career path can be a daunting task, and one that is made all the more challenging without the right support. At ISNS, we understand the importance of making informed choices about our students future, which is why our University and Careers Counsellors are dedicated to providing comprehensive services to students and families. From personality assessments to university and residence applications, our experienced Counsellors offer every available resource to guide you through the complicated and time-consuming admissions process.

In this article, we dive deeper into our university application cycle with insights from Lisa and Eleanor, giving you a 360-degree view of our services and how they can support our students achieving their dreams of higher education.

The Application Cycle

In grade 11 and 12 we really start focusing on the university applications themselves. So the first half of grade 11 is spent doing research about universities, requirements, admissions processes etc. Once we get to the middle of grade 11, that"s when the application process really does start.

February

In February, we usually start meeting with students and their parents one on one to discuss their plans, like what countries they want to study in; what specific universities; what programs. It really is a team. We want to make sure that everyone"s on the same page right from the very start.

https://www.ucas.com/

March

After meeting with the students’ families, we will put the students into two groups, mostly like North Americagroup and Europe and Asiagroup to start working on their personal statements. Because the requirements for these two locationsare different, we put them into two groups and it is more like a workshop. In this case, we can guide them one on one to work them through how to write their first draft of the personal statement.

We start off with workshops that focus intensely on the United States or the UK on their personal statements. Following the workshop, students are given time to go off and brainstorm ideas, and then they come back to meet with the counsellors one on one to filter through their ideas and select the strongest options and at that point they would be writing their first draft.

April-May

From April to May, the students continue to work on their personal statements as well as filling out reference letters, recommendations, asking their academic teachers to write reference letters for them. And there will be a lot of one on one meetings with university counselors to give them more guidance and to help them to refine their personal statement.

June

These meetings about the personal statement continue all the way through the spring with the final copy of their personal statement being done before June. We do that because it gives the kids the summer then to focus on portfolios if they are art students or working on other extracurricular activities or attending summer camps or doing other things to build resume and preparation for applications.

https://www.ucas.com/

September

After they come back from the summer, it"s the first term of grade 12. Since we prepared everything in their grade 11, we would gradually start to apply for universities in September. We will have two days in which students are cancelled with their academics and classes, they are only focused on their university application. One day is in September and another day is in October.

The two application days are something that"s really unique to ISNS. We have two days in the fall, one on September 26th and another on October 18th. We focus largely on US and UK applications because there are earlier deadlines for EE(Extended Essay), ED(Early Decision) and the students are applying to Oxbridge or to medicine in the UK.

We really walk the students step by step through every single part of the application process. Because something we"ve noticed in past years is that when students are doing these things outside of school, they get really stressed, they get really frustrated. It"s taking their focus away from their academics, so we really want this to be a smooth and supportive process for the students the whole way through.

On our second application day, we focus on Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and other world schools that they"ll be applying to. We do have a limit of ten applications per student. It has been a little bit flexible in past years because of Covid with students applying to many more countries than normal. The ten applications that we have a limit for it does include things like UCAS which is five schools, that only count as one application or the University of California system where students can apply to as many schools within that system as they want and it counts as one. Even though the official limit is ten, there are some considerations that make it a bit more flexible.

December

Our internal deadline for university applications is December 15th of any school year. One of the reasons why we do that is because we don"t want students waiting until the very last minute to apply for universities. We do want this to be something the students have thought about a lot beforehand. They prepared for this for a year at that point, so they really are ready to submit everything by December.

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February

Time for celebration！

Every time our students get acceptances, they rush in to our office to write the name of their university on the wall and it"s such a proud moment for them. Like they come in they"ll be waiting for us in the morning with the marker in their hand just ready to write on the wall that they got into a university. It"s such a moment of celebration for them.

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大学申请

选择正确的大学和职业道路可能是一项艰巨的任务，如果没有正确的支持，这将变得更具挑战性。在ISNS，我们了解为学生的未来做出明智选择的重要性，所以我们的大学和职业顾问致力于为学生和家庭提供全面的服务。从性格评估到大学和居留申请，我们经验丰富的升学顾问会提供一切可用的资源来指导您完成复杂而耗时的录取过程。

在本文中，我们通过两位大学职业顾问Lisa Hackett 和 Eleanor Rao对我们大学申请周期的深入讲解，让您360度全方位了解我们的服务以及这些服务如何支持我们的学生实现他们的高等教育梦想。

申请流程

在11年级和12年级，我们真正深入的关注大学申请。11年级的上半学期主要在研究各个大学、录取要求、录取流程等方面。到了11年级中期，申请流程就正式开始了。

2月

从2月开始，我们通常会开始与学生和他们的父母进行一对一的会面，讨论他们的计划，比如他们想去哪些国家学习，哪一所大学，什么专业。大家是一个团队，所以我们希望确保每个人的进度相同。

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3月

与学生的家人面谈后，我们会将学生分为两组，主要是北美大学组和欧亚大学组，开始准备他们的个人陈述。因为这两个地区的大学要求不一样，所以分成两组，形式和工作坊一样。这样，我们可以一对一地指导学生完成撰写个人陈述的初稿。

我们的研讨会特别关注美国或英国的个人陈述撰写。研讨会结束后，学生们有时间开始集思广益，然后他们再回来与辅导员一对一会面，筛选他们的想法，选择最好的选项，然后他们将开始撰写初稿。

4月-5月

从四月到五月，学生们继续撰写他们的个人陈述，同时将填写推荐信、介绍信，请他们的学术老师为他们写推荐信。并且会有很多与大学辅导员一对一的会面，给他们更多的指导，帮助完善他们的个人陈述。

6月

这些关于个人陈述的会议持续整个春季，最终他们的个人陈述终版将在6月前完成。我们这样安排是因为，如果有艺术学生，暑假可以专注于自己的作品集。或者参加其他课外活动或夏令营，或做其他事情准备简历和申请。

https://www.ucas.com/

9月

从暑假回来后就开始了12年级。由于他们在11年级准备好了一切，所以9月份我们准备开始申请大学。我们将有两天专门的大学申请日，学生们没有其他学术课程，只专注于大学申请。一天是在九月，另一天在十月。

这两个申请日是ISNS特别设立的。我们在秋季有两天，分别在9月26日和10月18日。第一天我们主要关注美国和英国大学的申请，因为EE（拓展性论文）、ED（早申）的截止日期较早，而且学生在申请英国的牛津剑桥或医学。

所以我们是一步一步地引导学生完成申请过程的每个部分。我们在过去几年注意到的一点是，学生们在校外做这些事情时，会感到压力很大，感到非常沮丧，这让他们的注意力从学业上转移开。所以我们真的希望这对学生来说是一个顺利和有支持的过程。

在第二个申请日，我们将重点关注加拿大、香港、新加坡和其他学校。我们确实限制了每个学生只有十份申请。在过去的几年里，由于疫情原因，学生申请的国家比平时多得多，因此比较灵活。我们限制的十个申请确实包括像UCAS（大学入学申请办事处）这样的，它是五所学校，只能算作一个申请，或者加州大学系统，学生可以在该系统内申请任意多所学校，并且它算作一个 ，所以官方限制是十个，但会根据一些因素灵活应变。

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12月

我们的大学申请内部截止日期是每学年的12月15日。这样安排的原因之一是因为我们不希望学生等到最后一刻才开始申请大学。我们希望学生们有深思熟虑的时间。11年级的时候他们为此准备了一年，所以到12月他们真的准备好了提交所有内容。

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2月

庆祝录取！

每次我们的学生收到录取通知书时，他们都会冲到这里在墙上写下他们大学的名字，这对他们来说是一个非常自豪的时刻。他们会在早上等着我们，手里拿着记号笔，迫不及待想在墙上写下好消息。对他们来说，这是一个值得庆祝的时刻。