This Week In University Counselling: Grade 12

april 18-28

Appointments to see YOUR university counsellor

To see your assigned University Counsellor, you must make an appointment using our on-line booking system.

To book an appointment, you need to be logged into the Brentwood system through your school email account. Also, you must ensure that you have opened your Google Calendar at least once to ensure that the times between the two systems are in sync.

Click the button to proceed to our Appointment Booking page:

TAKE NOTE: the entire University Counselling team will be away April 27-30, attending a conference. If you have tasks for May 1 that need to get done, please plan on booking an appointment BEFORE these dates... before Regatta!

CLC & Your Capstone Projects

You will be booking a time to Present your Capstone Project to your Advisor BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH!

graduation requirement: 30 hours of work experience

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HOUSING: Canadian universities

While most universities will guarantee housing to you if you receive an offer, there are some schools which require further action to confirm your interest in campus housing and others where a separate application for residence is required. These schools include: Alberta, UBC, Calgary, Lethbridge, Simon Fraser, Toronto, Victoria. In some cases, the applications for housing are open now (Alberta, UBC) and in others the application will open later in the term.

Here are the notables:

UBC, UVic, Simon Fraser

Alberta

Calgary, Dalhousie

Lethbridge

Toronto 

Concordia

Most other universities guarantee residence to admitted first year students, but application forms need to be completed and (sometimes very sizable) deposits need to be paid by a deadline (later in May and into early June). Be sure to investigate what your school of choice requires of you.

If you have questions regarding university residence, please book an appointment with your university counsellor.

Admission offers: action required

Admission Decisions

Whether it's good or bad news, PLEASE let us know when you receive admission information from your university choices. WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE OUTCOME OF YOUR APPLICATIONS!!!

We require this information from you: 

admission offers to ontario universities

If you have received an offer from a university in Ontario, there will be an expiration date associated with that offer. 

You must respond through OUAC to the offer by that date or else it the offer of admission will be lost… forever… and there is nothing we can do to fix that! Please check to see when your offers expire. If you are uncertain as to the expiration date, please make an appointment with one of the University Counsellors to have a look on OUAC, and to discuss how to proceed with the offers. OUAC allows you to accept only one offer at a time but accepting an offer does not impact any other offers that have been given or applications still awaiting a decision.

university choice

As you consider which university admission offer you want to accept, it is imperative that you consider the conditions of your offers to ensure that you will be able to meet them come the end of the year. In some cases, you have very little room for your academic average to change, and so meeting those conditions might be challenging. It would be wrong of you to choose a university if the chances of meeting the conditions is low!

Please meet with your University Counsellor to discuss your options.

COURSE REGISTRATION

At some universities, their system for Course Registration for next year is already open! If you are planning on attending, you need to ensure your offer is accepted and map out your courses sooner rather than later. Your University Counsellor is happy to assist you in navigating the system… you usually just need a little guidance before you can do it on your own!

Course registration at some other popular universities will happen later. Here are some key timelines:

UK Admission Decisions

News about your applications to UK universities is trickling in. There is no predicting when any one university will make their decisions, although they need to ensure that they push out all decisions by the first week of May. Students have until the first week of June to decide, so there is plenty of time. Plus, you cannot take any action until all of your choices have a decision posted on UCAS.

In other words... please be patient.

international student visas

International students who will need to apply for visas to attend university in either the US or Canada need to make sure they are getting on with the process. The University Counsellors can assist you in applying, but as the process takes time, we need to get started.

In both cases, documentation proving that you have the financial resources available to cover the costs of your education for next year, at least, is required, so parents will have to move on that.

Please see your University Counsellor if you want to discuss these matters further.

scholarships

We will keep our Scholarships page updated with all the information we have on national, provincial, and local awards. Click to the button to proceed to our Scholarships page: