Home-Schooled Applicants

UVic welcomes applications from individuals with varying academic backgrounds. Home-schooled applicants should be aware of the following:

• It is an admission requirement to be a secondary school graduate. Therefore, home-schooled applicants must be able to present proof of completion of a program that has met graduation requirements from a recognized educational jurisdiction and also Faculty specific minimum subject and academic average requirements.
  
  
• Applicants are required to take provincial exams or equivalent, for all courses in which they are offered. Therefore, if a home-schooled applicant is participating in a program with provincial examinations, or equivalent, those examinations must be taken.
  
  
• In cases where applicants do not meet the above mentioned requirements, they must document the reasons for not being able to meet these requirements and provide Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) scores plus a letter of appeal and any other relevant documentation for consideration by the Senate Committee on Admissions, Reregistration and Transfer (SCART).