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1. Several schools have announced plans to expand enrollment next year
According to the latest news from Columbia University, Columbia University plans to expand the enrollment of undergraduate students in 2022, and next year Chinese students may be able to usher in the history of Columbia University admission. The bill has been discussed within the school hierarchy since the spring of 2021 and is expected to land in the 2022 admissions season. This year, Columbia University's applicants increased by 51% compared to the previous year, making it the largest increase among the Ivy League schools.
The UC system also plans to add 20,000 student seats by 2030, the equivalent of a new campus, to meet the growing educational needs of the University of California (UC). And those responsible claim that the scaling system must be developed without sacrificing the quality of its renowned teaching and research, increasing the number of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.
2. The epidemic situation in the United States has improved, and domestic vaccines have been recognized for entry
According to the New York Times, the number of new cases in the United States has fallen by more than a third in the past month. The top 10 institutions in the United States achieve herd immunity. According to the latest publicly available data, 99.5 percent of Yale undergraduates are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The current vaccination rate at Columbia University is as high as 99.7 percent, and Cornell University and Princeton University are both 99 percent.
On the evening of October 8, local time in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially announced that international travelers are eligible for entry into the United States as long as they are vaccinated with six new coronavirus vaccines approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for emergency use. The six vaccines include: Sinopharm and Coxing, as well as Modena, Pfizer, BNT Johnson & Johnson, and Asterelikon in the United Kingdom. This is also an official response to whether the previous domestic vaccine has been recognized.
3. The University of Southern California publishes new student admission data
Recently, the University of Southern California released the fall 2021 freshman data. In the fall 2021 application, there were a total of 71,031 applicants, and 8,884 people were admitted, of which 47% were boys and 53% were girls. The acceptance rate was 12.5 per cent. The unweighted GPA for admitted students ranged from 3.83 to 4.0 in the 25%-75% range. 47% of fall 2021 incoming freshmen submitted SAT or ACT scores.
It is worth noting that USC does not provide any early application policy, so USC undergraduate admissions only have one opportunity to apply, and students who intend to apply to USC need to seize the opportunity to compare the admission data of previous years and prepare for the application as soon as possible.
4. The University of Washington will no longer consider whether applicants are sufficient to cover tuition
On Oct. 11, Washington University in St. Louis announced that it would no longer consider whether students could afford tuition when enrolling them. By becoming Need-Blind, the University of Washington is aligning itself with the policies of more than 60 colleges and universities, including Ivy League schools, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago. The university's president said the university has pledged to pay $1 billion for the new policy.
Washington University in St. Louis, a private university based in St. Louis, Missouri, usa, is known as one of the "New Ivy Leagues" and ranks 16th in the U.S. News 2021 University Rankings.
5. Chinese students are required to leave China because they have not submitted the I-94
The 50 Chinese students at the State University of New York at Buffalo who did not submit an I-94 were terminated from F-1 status and were asked to leave the country as soon as possible. The school informed the students that their SEVIS records had been terminated. I-94 is an important document issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to foreigners to record their entry and exit information in the United States.
The Consulate General in New York reminds the majority of students studying abroad to pay attention to abiding by the relevant regulations of the school, protecting their student identity, and must develop the habit of timely, patient and careful inspection of the e-mails sent by the relevant departments of the school, especially the international student management department, and respond on time according to the requirements, so as not to cause serious consequences of academic obstruction.
6. The number of international schools across the country continues to grow, and the popularity of international education has not decreased
As of 2020, there are 907 mature international schools in the country, the number of international schools continues to rise, and the autumn recruitment in 2021 shows that 14 new international schools continue to be added across the country.
Recently, at the press conference held in Beijing on the first anniversary of the construction of the "two districts", Pan Fangfang, director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Department of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, said that 10 of the 23 newly built international schools in the "Three-Year Action Plan" issued by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission have been put into use.
This plan will adhere to the expansion of the opening up of the education field to the outside world and serve the needs of the introduction of talents in the construction of the "two districts". Accurately docking the regional industrial layout, a number of international schools have been newly laid out in the "three cities and one district" and chaoyang, Haidian and other talent-intensive areas, and foreign high-quality educational resources have been introduced, effectively creating a "quasi-overseas" educational environment and improving the supply capacity of international education in Beijing. At the same time, we will optimize the layout of international schools and balance the development of international education in various regions.
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