Once admitted to your university abroad, there is a good chance that you celebrate, as it should be this rather significant event in your student life. But there is still plenty to do!
The university will ask you to fill in your recent documents completing your application, while your side, we will have to start preparing for your departure.
Administrative procedures once admitted
Carefully read all the documents that the university sent you. You will receive an envelope from the university after your confirmed room. This envelope will contain all relevant information on housing, tuition, campus, student life … and more! There will also be some decisions to make, particularly in terms of student housing, so be careful with deadlines!
Make a decision for the scholarships. If you have the chance to receive one or more scholarships, student loans or outside financing, re-examine all aid and check if your situation has not changed since your application, and if some things cannot be changed. Once your summit decision, be sure to respond within the allotted time.
Pay a deposit on your university fees. Universities as countries may require a deposit or not to confirm your place in the training that you have been accepted. Meet deadlines, and risk losing your place in otherwise.
Send your statements Note / language test. You will be asked to send your transcripts and language test if they were not already included in your registration form.
Choose your accommodation. As an international student, you have privileged places in the campus student housing. But despite this, demand often exceeds supply and first come first served. Therefore, undertake steps upon receipt of the mail if you wish to obtain a university housing. If not, start finding information for private housing, and try to contact several agencies on site.
Other important steps to take before you go
Make a folder with all important documents. Do not lose any important paper, so make one or more folders that you update to not misplace anything.
Contact your roommates. This approach is not mandatory can allow you to an overview of the people who will live with you for a semester, a year, or more. However, in a lot of student residences, you’ll find yourself with more than 5 different roommates, making the lengthy and complicated …
Buy a computer. All foreign university students need a computer, preferably portable. You used to use the Internet, keep in touch, but also access the university website, the online course, to send emails to professors … If universities often have hundreds of positions available in the enclosure, better is to have a home, even at low cost.
Ask about the integration period of international students. International students often benefit from an integration week before school starts, based on many evenings, campus tours, city, communal activities. This is where you will meet your future friends during the year, and not to participate is more than recommended, if only for passing one of the best weeks of your life.
