Admission Requirements for International First-Year Students

There are three options for sending school transcripts.

1. Request a school guidance counselor or school officer to email the documents to international.admissions@uc.edu. 
2. Add your school guidance counselor or school officer's name and email to your Common App. When the application is submitted an email will be sent from Common App to the school guidance counselor or school administrator. The email will have a link for the transcripts to be uploaded to the University of Cincinnati.
3. Student applicants can email transcripts to international.admissions@uc.edu or a UC International Admissions Counselor email address.
   • Transcripts sent by the student applicant are unofficial. If the student is admitted and confirmed to enroll at UC, the student must have a high school guidance counselor send the trancripts, examination results, and proof of graduation. There are two methods to send these documents:
     • Email to international.admissions@uc.edu or a UC International Admissions Counselor email address.
     •  Upload via the Common App Counselors and Recommenders website the final school report, official final transcripts, examination results, and proof of graduation.

How to send A-Level and IB transcripts. 

• ACT: Request score report be sent electronically from the ACT to University of Cincinnati (code 3340) 
• Cambridge Assessment English: Request score report be sent electronically to University of Cincinnati from Cambridge English and email a copy of your results. In the email, include student's date of birth and UC application number to international.admissions@uc.edu for online verification.
• Duolingo: Request score report be sent electronically from Duolingo English Test account to University of Cincinnati. 
• ELS: Request ELS certificate be sent from ELS Center official to international.admissions@uc.edu
• IELTS: Email score report to international.admissions@uc.edu for online verification or request score report be sent electronically from IELTS test center to the University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Admissions
  Note: Do not request scores to be sent to the Graduate School or a specific college/department.
• PTE: Request score report be sent electronically to University of Cincinnati from Pearson Test of English and email a copy of the results to international.admissions@uc.edu
• SAT: Email score report to international.admissions@uc.edu for online verification or request score report be sent electronically from College Board to University of Cincinnati (code 1833)
• TOEFL: Email score report to international.admissions@uc.edu for online verification or request score report be sent electronically from ETS to University of Cincinnati (code 1833)

There are two options for sending a letter of recommendation:

1. Within the Common App add the person's name and email address. When the application is submitted that person will receive an email request to upload the letter of recommendation. The document will be attached to the student application. 
2. Have the person that wrote the letter of recommendation email the document to international.admissions@uc.edu or the UC International Admissions Counselor email address.

A letter of recommendation sent by the applicant will not be accepted.