Admissions decisions
Once you’ve submitted your application, here’s what you can expect about the admissions decision process.
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Receiving your admissions decision
The UBC Admissions Office is meticulously reviewing your application so that we can give you our decision as soon as we can. That being said, we’re not going to rush through our evaluation of your application – we want to make sure you get a carefully considered decision from us. As soon as we have evaluated your application, you will see our decision on the Applicant Service Centre under Admissions > Application Status.
Rolling admissions
UBC evaluates your UBC application once it’s complete, which means we need to receive all your grades and other required information first. With thousands of applications coming in from different school systems around the world, we receive all those grades and supporting documents at different times.
We can’t evaluate everyone’s application at the same time, so we send out admissions decisions as we receive and review information. That’s what we mean by rolling admissions.
If we received your grade information early in the year, we may have evaluated your application in January or February. But don’t worry: UBC uses the same admissions criteria for everyone. Students who receive offers by the end of February have to meet the same admissions criteria as those who receive offers in March or April, for example.
Admission decisions are not first come, first served
We use the same evaluation criteria for everyone when their files are complete. If your files are complete in March, we will evaluate your application exactly as we have done for those whose files were complete in January. Our decisions are not made on a first-come, first-served basis, and we take great care to make sure you get the right decision shortly after your application is complete.