This Week In University Counselling: Grade 12

april 4-14

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:

University Counselling Appointments

CLC & Your Capstone Projects

You will be booking a time to Present your Capstone Project to your Advisor soon!

Please check your CLC Google Classroom for all the information you need to ensure everything is complete and submitted.
Please see the Career Education website for details about your Capstone Project.

graduation requirement: 30 hours of work experience

One graduation requirement that often gets overlooked by students is that they need to accumulate 30 hours of work experience--volunteer, paid, or interning hours--during the period from Grade 10 to 12. THESE HOURS THEN NEED TO BE LOGGED INTO x2VOL TO BE VERIFIED.

The job of chasing Grade 12s on this issue is exhausting, so we are pulling out the stops to make folks aware. The following Grade 12s have still NOT logged their required 30 hours:

Leo C.
Declan C.
Abigail G.

Kade G.
Trevyn G.
Youto I.

Kyle K.
Soren L.
Alex L.

Jacob M.
Jasper M.
Olivia O.

Karter P.
Serena P.
Elizabeth R.

Steven W.
Mila W.

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.

Lethbridge, Simon Fraser - housing is NOT guaranteed for any student... you should apply for housing ASAP to increase your chances of getting a place in housing.
Toronto - you needed to complete their housing profile (StarRez) via your JoinUofT account by March 31 to secure a place in residence. If you did not do this and plan on attending University of Toronto, you will now need to look into alternative housing as accessing residence now will be virtually impossible!
Alberta, Calgary - the deadline to submit your application for housing to be guaranteed a place = April 30
UBC, UVic - you must submit your housing application by May 1 to be guaranteed a place in residence.

If you have questions regarding university residence, please see one of the university counsellors.

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:

to have a complete picture of what is happening with applications,
to promote your achievements!
it helps us understand how universities are making their decisions.

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 one of the University Counsellors to discuss your options.

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.

UC Logins Form

While you are always advised to protect your login credentials for websites on which you establish accounts, it is vital that you share those credentials with University Counselling so that we can fully support your applications. We do promise absolute discretion in protecting your credentials... you can put your trust is us!

To easily share your Application Account Login Credentials, please use this Form:

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.

For a Study Permit to attend a Canadian university, you need to decide whether to apply to extend your current permit while you are here at Brentwood or to apply for a new study permit in your home country.
For an F-1 Study Visa to attend an American university, you will need to attend an interview at the US embassy in your home country, but everything can and needs to get done well before you can book that interview.

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.

For a Tier-4 Student Visa to attend university in the UK, the process can only begin once you have an unconditional offer, so in the summer. The application process, though, is efficient, and can easily be completed in the summer months.

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:

Scholarships

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