Top 10 questions to consider when applying to UWC

Are you ready:

• to live in a dorm with people who have different daily habits?
• to leave your family and friends for many months?
• to be motivated to study autonomously?
• to be intrigued by the totally different customs of other students?
• to get up early after a very late night?
• to organise your time yourself?
• to represent your own culture and country at the college?
• to push yourself to new limits?
• to pursue sustainable development rather than just talk about it?
• to keep up even when the going gets tough?

Top 10 things you could get out of 2 years at a UWC

• Living and studying with students from more than 70 different countries.
• Understanding other cultures by sharing your all with them.
• A more personalised, pro-active and analytical academic curriculum.
• Teamwork and contributing actively to local communities.
• Assuming responsibility for problems which others choose to ignore.
• Surpassing yourself with new activities and achievements you would not have dared to imagine.
• Learning a wide range of languages.
• Leadership, an independent mindset and a global citizenship perspective.
• An incredible, worldwide network of lasting friendships.
• A passion for planet earth and all its inhabitants, whether plant, animal or human.