UBCO Fall 2021

Hey!

I've also applied to UBCO as a first year transfer student!

my high school average is 86-87% which I don't think is very competitive but I think I have a pretty solid personal profile which I'm hoping will help make up for that. I have 150+ health care volunteer hours from three different health care settings and then, including my non health care volunteering, I have 400+ hours. My university average from last semester is an A- and I'm currently in A&P 1 which so far I have an A in but I'm hoping to finish with an A+. 

I've applied to Camosun/UVIC, VIU, NIC, TRU, OC, UFV and UBCO with UVIC being my top choice and UBCO being my 2nd. 

On 2/12/2021 at 9:43 PM, mountain_4837 said:

Hey!

I've also applied to UBCO as a first year transfer student!

my high school average is 86-87% which I don't think is very competitive but I think I have a pretty solid personal profile which I'm hoping will help make up for that. I have 150+ health care volunteer hours from three different health care settings and then, including my non health care volunteering, I have 400+ hours. My university average from last semester is an A- and I'm currently in A&P 1 which so far I have an A in but I'm hoping to finish with an A+. 

I've applied to Camosun/UVIC, VIU, NIC, TRU, OC, UFV and UBCO with UVIC being my top choice and UBCO being my 2nd. 

I just got an email the other day, they said they need my final transcript before making  a decision probably because I don’t have very many university credits yet, have you gotten any updates yet?

1 hour ago, Esther Park said:

 

I just got an email the other day, they said they need my final transcript before making  a decision probably because I don’t have very many university credits yet, have you gotten any updates yet?

The only email I got was from them confirming that all of my documents have been received. I got a generic email from them about an hour ago and it was just about their program and it had a link to a lab tour.

Do I need any references for the personal profile? What high school grades did you apply with, what university classes do you think I should take if I want to apply for ubco nursing! 

You would need 2 references in total for your personal profile, atleast one of them have to be able to confirm an activity you list in your personal profile. I already posted my high school avg in my original post, and honestly I don’t believe many classes transfer into ubco so unless your high school classes don’t fulfill the prerequisites other than maybe BIOL 131 (I think? I could be wrong, it’s an anatomy and physiology course) I don’t think there’s many uni classes that you can take before being admitted into the nursing program itself. Maybe get first year English out of the way if you haven’t already, but I would check the course calendar for nursing for more specifics

1 minute ago, Esther Park said:

You would need 2 references in total for your personal profile, atleast one of them have to be able to confirm an activity you list in your personal profile. I already posted my high school avg in my original post, and honestly I don’t believe many classes transfer into ubco so unless your high school classes don’t fulfill the prerequisites other than maybe BIOL 131 (I think? I could be wrong, it’s an anatomy and physiology course) I don’t think there’s many uni classes that you can take before being admitted into the nursing program itself. Maybe get first year English out of the way if you haven’t already, but I would check the course calendar for nursing for more specifics

Okay thank you so much! I am really stressed because I did not get into OC for nursing. I am going to be applying for UBCO because I did not this time. Do you know how many people they take in, and if I would be required to have healthcare volunteer hours?

I believe in total ubco takes 120-130 people per year, around half for direct high school entry and the other half for mature and university students. And you can just list any experience or activities in the personal profile, I don’t believe it has to be healthcare specific!

23 minutes ago, Esther Park said:

I believe in total ubco takes 120-130 people per year, around half for direct high school entry and the other half for mature and university students. And you can just list any experience or activities in the personal profile, I don’t believe it has to be healthcare specific!

If I have graduated from high school last year, would I be considered a mature university student. I do not have any post-secondary courses right now, do you think I would be able to still apply with my high school grades or do you think I need to do some university classes and apply with those.

Basically how they consider your grades is if you have 0-6 university credits they will only look at your high school grades for admission, if you have under 24 credits they will review both your high school and university grades for admissions and if you have more than 24 university credits they will base admissions decisions off of only your university grades.

One thing to note though is if you decide to take university classes at a different institution you have to deal with making sure the credits transfer as well as sending transcripts, and that you probably will get an admissions decision much later than if you apply with high school grades only. I applied as a transfer student (under 24 credits) and my file won’t be evaluated until after my final grades are sent to ubco so l might not get a decision until June or so, just smth to keep in mind

Okay makes sense! thanks so much. 

On 1/27/2021 at 10:57 PM, Esther Park said:

Hey everyone,

I havent seen a thread for the UBCO 2021 intake, so I thought it would be nice to start one for anyone who's applied - I think it would be great if we could talk to each other and share stats, thoughts, encouraging words, or other updates regarding admissions

For me, I had an 88-89% highschool avg, though I am applying as a transfer student (1st yr) and I went part-time due to covid and online classes, but so far my uni grades avg 83% and I should have 20 university credits total at the end of this term. I think my personal profile was decent, I have 160 hours of volunteer experience in healthcare which I'm hoping will help. Pretty nervous that I might not hear admissions decisions until may or later as I heard that transfer students don't get evaluated until then, It's definitely going to be killing me when the offers for everyone else start rolling in. Applied for UBCO, OC and UFV, but UBCO is definitely my first choice. Good luck everyone I'd love to hear from you all!

Hi, 

I just had a question. When you say highschool average, are you talking about all highschool grades, or just the highschool pre-reqs required to get into the program.

On 5/29/2021 at 9:52 PM, simmm said:

Hi, 

 

I just had a question. When you say highschool average, are you talking about all highschool grades, or just the highschool pre-reqs required to get into the program.

Hey!

When I referred to my high school average I meant of all of my grades - I got similar grades for most of my classes though so the average probably isn't that far off from the pre-req grades average. I also just received my offer of admission today so fingers crossed for you and hopefully I've been somewhat helpful!!