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After sending your applications to your shortlisted universities, you will be required to wait for a few weeks to receive a reply. If your application goes through, the university will extend an offer letter. An offer letter indicates that you have been accepted into the course.
After which you will have to respond to the university with your acceptance. Now, there are 2 types of offer letters – conditional offer letter and unconditional offer letter.
A conditional offer letter is a letter that lays down a certain set of conditions. Only after fulfilling those conditions, you can proceed with further formalities. Once you meet those conditions, your conditional offer letter will become an unconditional offer letter.
You will then be required to pay your tuition fee for the first semester or term and buy an Overseas Student Health Cover (OSCH) for the entire duration of your course. This again varies from country to country.
Commonly, you apply for your post-graduation during the last year of your under-graduation. In such cases, your undergraduate final exams will not yet be completed. Therefore, your offer letter will have the condition that your offer will be valid only if you score a certain percentage or above in your final exams. Similarly, if you are applying for an undergraduate program, you will have to score the mentioned minimum percentage in your 12th results to be able to accept the offer letter.
English speaking countries compulsorily require an English language proficiency test. In case you don’t attach your test results while applying, your offer letter will have a condition that you are eligible for the offer only if you pass the test. Most universities accept a band score of 6.5 out of 9 and along with each minimum subset score of 6.
GTE is one of the most crucial conditions asked by universities abroad. This condition helps them identify the authenticity or genuineness of your application. Utilizing this process, the universities will understand more about why you want to join their university. In this process, the universities will request financial documents, a statement of purpose and verification (by agent) of all documents including your work experience. If you qualify to be a genuine (real) student according to their guidelines, you will become eligible to accept the offer letter.
If you have already met all of the university’s entrance requirements while applying for the course, you will receive an unconditional offer letter. An unconditional offer letter indicates that the university has already accepted your application and you are eligible to proceed with the admission process.
As mentioned above, to ensure your admission, you must pay the tuition fee for the first semester along with purchasing the OSCH. Subsequently, your university will send you an Electronic Confirmation of Enrolment (eCOE) letter which you must submit for your visa application.
Note – You can proceed with a visa application only after you receive your eCOE. In case you want to apply for a visa when you have a conditional offer letter in hand, you will only be eligible to apply for a conditional visa. However, you must satisfy all conditions before travelling to your host country.
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