How to Get Into UBC: Free Workshop for Grades 11-12
In this free workshop, we will walk your family through the UBC application as it actually runs this year, including the date in December that decides entrance award consideration, how UBC reads Grade 11 and Grade 12 marks together, and what has to be written and arranged before the application closes in January.
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We will start with the calendar, because most families are working from the wrong date. UBC's application opens in early October and closes on January 15, but Canadian citizens and permanent residents who want to be considered for UBC's major entrance awards, including the Presidential Scholars Awards and the Centennial Scholars Entrance Awards, need to have applied by December 1. UBC also releases admissions decisions for high school applicants on a continuous basis from November onward, so submitting early is not a neutral choice. We will then cover how the academic side is actually assessed: UBC looks at all academic Grade 11 and Grade 12 coursework, places emphasis on the more senior grade when a subject appears at both levels, and will generally set aside the lowest academic grade when it is not required for or relevant to the intended degree. That single rule changes how families should think about a weak course. Next we will take the Personal Profile seriously as a piece of work with a deadline attached: it is written inside the application in short answers, one referee has to be a school official, and UBC can contact that referee, which means the relationship needs to exist before your child needs the reference. We will also flag the programs that ask for more than the profile, including the video interview built into the Bachelor of Commerce application and the supplemental application for Computer Science. We will close with two separate lists, one for Grade 12 families applying in this cycle and one for Grade 11 families whose marks are already counting, so every family leaves knowing what to do between now and December.
Parents and students in Grades 11-12 are both welcome. The session is live on Zoom, and we email the link and a short summary after you register.
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