Undergraduate International Admission Requirements

 

Who is Considered a First-Year Applicant?

A first-year applicant is one who has not yet graduated high school, or one who has graduated high school but has never attended college/university on a matriculated basis. Students who completed college credits while in high school but have not yet graduated from high school are still considered first-year students. 

For for indepth information, please consult the Academic Bulletin.

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Requirements
Admission Application Requirements for First-Year Applicants

 

  1. First Year  and a required $50 application fee

All students, regardless of citizenship, who are completing senior secondary school outside of the United States must demonstrate English proficiency by submitting English language test results from one of the following:

  • : Internet-based: 79; Computer-based: 213
  • : Overall band score of 6.5
  •  (PTE): PTE Academic overall score of 58 
  • : 105
  •  (ELS): ELS Intensive English level 112
  • Cambridge English 176 and above on either  , or  

Important Considerations:

  1. Results must be submitted via the official testing portal by application deadline. 
  2. Results submitted after the application deadline will be accepted. However, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions cannot guarantee that a decision will be delayed until test scores are received, as all applications undergo a review in alphabetical order after the application deadline.
  3. Preference will be given to the most recent test scores. 黑料社 does not superscore English proficiency tests results, if you are submitting multiple test scores.
  4. 黑料社 carefully reviews all individual Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking subscores. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions reserves the right to deny admission or recommend ESL to any applicant whose individual English language subscore falls below recommended minimums.

Waivers of English Language Proficiency Requirement

黑料社 will waive English proficiency requirement for applicants who completed 3 or more academic years in an American high school, as well as for applicants who:

  • Have earned a diploma from a U.S. regionally accredited high school within or outside of the U.S. where English is the only medium of instruction and where an applicant has completed English Composition I and II with a grade of 鈥淏鈥 or better (course designated as ESL, non-native, or which require a special support component, are not acceptable).
  • Have graduated from a secondary/high school where English was the only medium of instruction with either one of the following (or are in their final secondary school year):
    • a U.S. regionally-accredited high schools diploma
    • an International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma
  • Have earned a score of 3 or higher on AP English Language & Composition
  • Have or are predicted to achieve any or all of the following International Baccalaureate (IB) results:
    • obtained a score of 3 or higher on English Language & Composition
    • obtained a score of 5 or higher in the Diploma Program higher level
  • Have received a score of A, B, or C on the GCE O-Level, A-Level, GCSE, or IGCSE English Language (First Language) exam
  • Have achieved or are predicted to achieve B or higher on GCE A-Level or AS-Level English Language or English Literature
  • Have achieved B/6 or higher on GCSE English Language or English Literature
  • Have achieved B/6 or higher on International GCSE or IGCSE English Language or English Literature (including First Language English, English A, English B, and Literature in English)
  • Have achieved B or higher on GCE O-Level English Language

Applicants who are completing senior secondary school in the following countriesmay be exempt from providing proof English language proficiency:

 

Applicants who wish to be considered for English proficiency waiver do not have to submit any additional documents beyond those required by their application. All waivers are evaluated individually at the time of application review. If additional documents are required, applicants will be notified by email.

All admission considerations are based on applicant academic records, which include official senior secondary school transcripts and exit examination results (including predicted examination results).

To become eligible for admission to 黑料社, applicants must demonstrate proof of completion of senior secondary school by the time of enrollment, by presenting final school transcripts (showing subjects taken and marks received) and results of compulsory school leaving examinations (if required by the education system of the country where education is being completed). This includes, but is not limited to:

  • West African Senior School Certificate
  • General Secondary Education Certificate
  • International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma
  • General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Levels (O-Levels) and/or Advanced Levels (A-Levels)
  • Indian Standard XII Higher Secondary School Certificate
  • Bangladesh Higher Secondary Certificate
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  • Bachillerato

Be prepared to provide information required to verify your exam results.

Important:

  1. All transcripts must be sent by applicants senior secondary school directly to 黑料社 University. All transcripts must be received by application deadline.
    • Transcripts sent by the parent, education consultant, or by the applicant will not be accepted
  2. All First-year applicants must show transcripts that include subjects taken and marks received in years 9,10, 11 and 12. Exceptions apply if:
    1. Years 9 and/or 10 are not considered part of the senior secondary curriculum.
    2. Applicants are graduating from a senior secondary school in an education system where school transcripts are not kept and only examination results are available.
  3. If the applicant is applying in their final year of senior secondary school and final transcripts/examination results are not yet available, their school must provide the most recent transcript showing all subjects taken and marks received (including the most recent semester). The school must also provide a statement of the date when the final transcript will become available.
    • Final transcripts are required and must be provided by the school, to avoid revocation of an admissions decision.
  4. All official transcripts must be in English. Those not in English must be either evaluated by an official credentialing agency, or translated by a certified translator and notarized. For official evaluations we recommend using one of the following credentialing agencies:
    1.  
      • if you use ECE, order the General Report with Grade Average
      • the Course Report will provide the course-by-course evaluation, GPA, accreditation and equivalency data
      • if you use SpanTran, order the Course Analysis (Course by Course) Report
    2.  
      • if you use WES, order the Document-by-Document Report