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Are there specific admission requirements for international students in California? National? At your college?
Federal requirements are foremost - SEVIS (VISAs, etc.) USCIS website
They change them with updates all the time
Online classes are limited - for example
Consider having someone monitor all updates and news (from USCIS, Sevis, and
DVC has a field agent come around to the colleges - to go through SEVIS account and make sure they comply
Are you using the CCCApply Rules with your International application? Which ones are most valuable?
Santa Rosa: put in a rule that come up early - Error - only select F1 visa type to submit the Application (J1 is another).
NEED: Run rules sooner in the app process - if you are blocking a student - run the Rules and display the error message
LACCD: Looked at these
Are you asking Supplemental Questions in your International application? Are these questions common/required for all college international admissions or on-boarding programs?
LACCD - does ask 7-10 supplemental questions
Do you use the reports in the Report Center for your international applications? Which ones? Which reports are most valuable? Are there reports that are needed?
What other data/metrics do you track on your international student admissions? How do you track it? Google Analytics?
Do you have an pre-application International student process/checklist? Can you share that with us?
Do you have a post-submission on-boarding process/checklist? Can you share that with us?
How many International students apply to your college annually? Term?
Is there a version of SAAM for International student admissions?
No, see 1 above.
English Proficiency section: what needs to change?
Do we need to validate test scores at all?
Did they take a test and what was the score. (this documentation needs to be submitted anyway)
J1 students do NOT have the same requirements as F1 students. They don’t have to go through SEVIS requirements.
DVC says most are Au Pairs -
If they want to change to F1 visa - they can apply but they have to leave the US and come back.
Emailing in documents (required docs)
Collecting Application fees associated with admission
DVC is creating an invoice to add the fee to their account
Three step process
Complete App
Send Docs
When account is created in Colleague, pay fees (through colleague) - Nice to Have - if the fees were part of the application process
Santa Rosa College
Guarantee of financial support - they are required to ensure that the student is financial able to attend the college - they want to collect that information at the time of application
Any forms that students uploads - they want some way to get that information in to their system (SIS) via Glue? via some API?
Every international student needs to have a Sponsor - a financial sponsor - someone who is financials
Students must have a certain amount of money in the bank - must cover all expenses per year (sponsor validates the student has the money in the bank)
Match the dollar amount to the college they are attending (each college has different expenses) - let the colleges determine what that threshhold is and require the student to provide documentation to prove they can meet this threshold.
Need some way to upload forms
Allow student to establish a financial sponsor (student receives an email, they log in, they provide their piece of info and signature (electronic) - would support being able to collect info from a 3rd party
This could (explore) incorproating this into the Authorized Agent portion
All financial security precautions would need to be included
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