US Applicants List

This list has been pulled from when you were in Grade 11 and attending USA Sundays in the spring. No doubt, it needs updating: 

• If you are no longer planning on applying to US colleges and should be removed from the list, please alert your University Counsellor. 

• If you are planning on applying to US colleges but are not on this list (perhaps you're new to Grade 12), please alert your University Counsellor ASAP!!

USA Sundays Applicant Workshops

Our next (AND LAST) USA Sundays Applicant Workshop will be on:

Sunday, OCTOBER 26 at 7:30 PM in the Foote Field House 

Please plan to be there! If you are a US Applicant, your attendance is expected.

It turns out, there's a Grad Event scheduled for next Sunday evening... we'll find an alternative time. Stay tuned!

SATs

The following SAT will be in November, but it falls during the Midterm break. Thus, it is not being offered at Brentwood. If you plan to write in November, you will need to find a Test Centre in the place you will be spending that break. Your University Counsellor can assist you. The registration deadline for the November SAT is October 24.

After that, the December 6 SAT will be the last one that can be used for the current application cycle. Brentwood will be offering that one.

CommonApp 

• Your Common Application should be almost completely filled in by now, and you certainly have added schools and discovered what supplemental writing you need to complete. Get on with scheduling the tasks ahead!

• You need to LINK your MaiaLearning and Common Application accounts. This ensures that the submission of documents and teacher recommendations is seamless. It is very easy to do this, starting in MaiaLearning... please watch this video or review this tutorial for the easy guide to completing the Linking process. 

Recommendation Letters

For NON-Common Application Teacher Recommendations

• Ask the teachers IN PERSON, not by email.

• Once they agree, provide a completed Student Request Form (scroll down to it) and discuss what you have written with them.

For Common Application Teacher Recommendations

• First, complete FERPA on the Common App... best that your agree to "waive my rights"... ask University Counselling for more details if you're confused.

• Ask the teachers IN PERSON, not by email.

• In MaiaLearning… Universities ==> Recommendations ==>

  • • “Select Deadline”—pick the application deadline of your first application

    • “Select Teachers for the Recommendation Letters”—select the teachers who have agreed to write a letter…

    • Fill out the answers to the questions posed in ”Information for Recommenders”… Use the Student Request Form on our website as a reference for all the information you should provide.

Applicant Autobiography

All applicants who must have a Counsellor Recommendation Letter submitted will need to complete the Applicant Autobiography process. SCROLL DOWN TO FIND THE APPLCIANT AUTOBIOGRAPHY...

Early Decision/Early Action

• If you are planning on submitting an Early Decision or Early Action application that has a November 1 as its Due Date, then make sure your DO DATE for completing all of your application material is October 1. Then you will have plenty of time to have it all thoroughly reviewed in the University Counselling office before we submit it with you.

• And ED/EA applications with a November 15 Due Date will have a DO DATE of October 15.

• You MUST ensure that we know about your ED/EA plan by your DO DATE, otherwise University Counselling cannot support your application properly!

Other Applications

• If you are applying to one or more University of California campuses, you need to complete their own application: My UC Application. Get registered and start filling it out ASAP!

• There are many other separate applications to think about... you should already know what application platforms you need to set up accounts with and be completing.

• Please share your login credentials by entering them into the University Counselling Logins Form.

English Proficiency

If your first language is not English, regardless of your citizenship, you inevitably will have to do a test of English Proficiency as part of the admissions process. That would be TOEFL or IELTS... but it might be the much better, cheaper, and easier-to-access Duolingo. Regardless, it is critical that we review the English Proficiency requirements of EACH of your schools to ensure that you have a plan to meet their requirements.

International Certification of Finances

Any non-US citizen will, at some point, have to demonstrate that they have financial resources to pay for at least a year's expenses to attend school in the United States. Some schools require you to submit an International Certification of Finances (official proof of available funds from a financial institution) as part of the admissions process, while others only require it after you are admitted. It is critical that we review the requirements of EACH of your schools to ensure that you have a plan to meet their requirements. Your parents need to stand by to acquire and provide that financial documentation.

PSAT - October

Are you interested in applying to colleges in the United States? Are you curious about the standardized testing process? Brentwood will be offering you the chance to explore these questions by take the PSAT in October... an unofficial,  practice version of the SAT that is a staple of the US College Admissions process.

We will be running the PSAT on Sunday, October 26 at 11:00 am in CIL 276. If you want to write it but are unable to make that day/time, please let Mr. Rodrigues know. While many of you took the PSAT 10 last spring, the PSAT in the fall also allows US Citizens the chance to qualify for the National Merit Scholarship Program.

If you would like to take the PSAT in October, please fill out the following Form:

SAT Prep Course

Brentwood has, for many years, offered an SAT Prep Course using an external instructor. The course has typically run on Sundays from November through February. We're just finalizing the details about the course and will be sending it out to you and parents VERY SOON. Stay Tuned!