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Whom We Admit    Entrance Requirements    Application Process    Written Component    Interview Process    Post Application    Notification of Acceptance    Academic Preparation

It's not necessary to have completed graduate studies or advanced degrees to apply however the WSC Admissions Board looks for applicants who demonstrate:

• Commitment and desire to transform their lives.
• Strong leadership aptitude and the ability to work in teams.
• Course preparedness and the commitment of time and energy to the, at times, challenging programme.
• Intellectual curiosity and agility.
• Willingness to engage in debate and ask questions.
• Flexibility and a readiness to change.
• Communication skills especially listening and debating skills.
• Commitment to WSC core values, its ethics and a high standard of integrity.
• Medium level computer literacy and system compatible PC or laptop.

WSC looks for intellectually driven women from diverse educational, economic, social, cultural and geographical backgrounds.

WSC admits intellectually inquisitive applicants with the time and resources to commit to six months of intense learning and real life experience. To successfully apply to the programme, you'll be required to:

1. Complete an extensive, multiple choice questionnaire.
2. Write an essay of 500 words.
3. Describe your full-time and part-time employment history, including your core responsibilities, your reasons for applying to WSC, your objectives, your most significant challenges and your greatest accomplishments.
4. Have fluency in both written and spoken English.
5. Submit a complete application and supplemental materials (if any) online for evaluation by one of the decision round deadlines.

We take every application very seriously, so we encourage you to carefully fulfil the following steps:

• Tell us who you are by completing the form on the Register Your Interest page. This allows us to send you additional information relevant to your interests, including invitations to WSC Admissions events in your area. It also gives you preferential placement for your preferred Spa Camp date.
• Please read our website carefully BEFORE beginning your application. We also encourage you to read the WSC Transformation blog and our articles page.
• We encourage you to join the WSC Advice Exchange. Register as a non-student and start posting. The Exchange will give you a great idea of the sense of community that binds together the WSC student body and alumni.
• Review the application dates in the course calendar to select an application period most appropriate to you. Please note that you may not receive your first preference Spa Camp© date and alternatives may be offered.
• Organise the application materials you'll need including essay, questionnaire, life history, objectives, contact information and so on.
• An Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL IBT) may be required for some international applicants to demonstrate fluency in written and spoken English.
• Submit your written application online. All applications must be submitted online and will not be accepted via mail.

It's very important that you:

• Clearly articulate your transformation goals.
• Fully review the course unit descriptions.
• Select the appropriate academic stream as a major - Relationships, Career, Style & Beauty, Health & Fitness and Wealth.
• Complete your application fully - please answer all questions thoroughly. The Admissions Board will only consider completed applications.
• Meet the application deadlines.
• Fully understand our Admissions Policy.

Application Essays
As an opportunity to present your distinctive qualities and your suitability for the WSC programme, your essays are an important part of your application. Begin work on these essays early, to give yourself time to reflect, write and edit.  All applicants must submit answers to one of the 5 essay questions below (500-word limit):

Essay 1:   What are your life aspirations? Describe the vision for your life and your inspiration for pursuing this path. What do you need to learn at WSC to achieve the life you want?
Essay 2:   What matters most to you and why? Explain how the WSC Transformation Programme© enhances what matters most to you.  Describe your short and long term post-WSC life goals in this context and what is it specifically about WSC that is going to help you succeed?
Essay 3:  What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do you view them as such? What would you consider the biggest failure or disappointment in your life? How would WSC have helped you to accomplish more or sooner or helped you avoid failure or disappointment.
Essay 4:   How will your background, values and non-work activities enhance the experience of other WSC students and add value to WSC's vibrant student life? 
Essay 5:   How have you used your personal characteristics, values and resources to achieve what you want from life? Describe a time when you felt a strong sense of purpose. Describe how WSC will enhance that.

Your essay should be confident, direct and to the point. The Admissions Board uses the essay to ascertain your motivation, maturity, suitability and focus. Your reasons for undertaking the WSC programme should be crystal clear. If you have vague reasons for pursuing the programme, you should reconsider your decision to apply. Re-read the website and, if you haven't already, join the WSC Advice Exchange.

Otherwise, have fun.  Feel free to ask your friends or family if the essay sounds like you. It should. The essay captures who you are, how you live, what you believe and what you aspire to and is an important way for the Admissions Board to recognise what is most distinctive about you.

Additional Written Information
As part of getting to understand who you are and what you want to achieve, and as part of the application questionnaire, you'll be required to tell us a bit about yourself with questions such as:

• What would you like the WSC Admissions Board to know about your life experience?
• What is your life vision and why is this choice meaningful to you?
• Tell us about a time in your professional experience were frustrated or disappointed.
• When you join the WSC programme, how will you introduce yourself to your new classmates?

As part of the application review process, you may be required to attend an interview. The interview is an indicator of our interest but is not a guarantee of admission; it serves as one element amongst many that are considered whilst we review your application.

Interviews are conducted by a panel of members of the WSC Admissions Board and may be scheduled at Spa Camps or conducted via teleconference (we generally use Skype).

Once your application has been submitted, it's time to seriously consider which electives will most satisfactorily meet your objectives. Through the application process, you will have already commenced defining your dazzling future, now's the time to do the following:

1. Familiarise yourself with the Required Curriculum. These course units are the building blocks of your brilliant new life and essential fundamentals upon which you will build.
2. Further refine the life objectives you submitted in your application. Life transformation may be expressed and achieved in many different ways. It's important that you think carefully about your brilliant new life and what skills and behaviours you must acquire to achieve it.
3. Review all the elective course units. Now is the time, even before acceptance, that you review all the course unit descriptions and decide which course units best match your transformation objectives and interests. We will review your selections on your first day of Spa Camp© and offer guidance, if needed.
4. Ask lots of questions in the WSC Advice Exchange. You'll find plenty of support there and some great ideas. You can also introduce yourself to your fellow students, alumni and faculty.
5. Submit articles or blogs for publication. We publish anyone who has an interesting, well articulated point of view and not necessarily one with which we agree.
6. Read the WSC site in its entirety again. It's good to be fully familiar with the WSC Programme and we update the content all the time.

We prize highly candidates who demonstrate leadership, intellectual capability or a natural gift for our programme content and engaged community citizens. Whilst gnashing your teeth waiting for your acceptance letter, we want you to show us your leadership capability, your aptitude for the course material and your citizenship in the WSC community.

We acknowledge receipt of all applications and maintain all application information in strict confidence. In order to enhance the learning experience and optimise the exchange of ideas, the Admissions Board selects each Spa Camp© participant based on the participant's background, transformation objectives, current life position and interests.

The Admissions Board begins reviewing applications 3 months prior to the proposed Spa Camp© commencement date with accepted candidates admitted on a rolling, space-available basis, based on their preferred Spa Camp© dates. Admissions Board decisions are notified within 2 weeks of the decision being made.

Acceptance of offer and course deposit must be paid 6 weeks prior to commencement of agreed Spa Camp© date.

WSC students come from a wide array of backgrounds and bring different transformation objectives to the WSC programme, so it's essential that they develop a common lexicon of terminology in key areas before they start class.

To take full advantage of the benefits of this diversity, students will undertake a pre-course diet & exercise programme, do extensive pre-course reading, understand anf agree with the WSC's values and code of conduct and familiarise themselves with the WSC Virtual Commons and the online learning environment.

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