Response

Hello Clara

Thanks for your email.

We need English 12 with at least a C and Communications does not count for that. So, you have a few choices. You must have completed English 12 or one of the options below before you will be able to start CYC. You can complete English 12 through Learn at Home via your school district:
http://schools.sd68.bc.ca/lah/index.htm

OR you can do it through upgrading here on campus, but you cannot take it while starting CYC. You could apply to take English 067 here for September (apply in mid July in person at Nanaimo campus) and you could apply to take general university courses in Spring semester if you wanted to – these would count as general electives in the CYC program.

OR you can write the LPI exam which counts as the same as English 12. This is an exam you must register for online at least 2 weeks before writing it. You can purchase the study guide (you will want to do that) either through our bookstore on campus or through LPI. You register to write the exam through LPI though you actually write it on our Nanaimo campus. LPI is not a Vancouver Island University program, but they use space here for people to write it. Here is a link to the program info. You must register at least 2 weeks prior to when you want to write the LPI: http://www.ubc.lpi/.

Have you applied yet to CYC Diploma? If not, then applications are no longer being accepted for this September start anyway.

I hope this info is clear. You are also welcome to arrange a meeting with any advisor on campus. And an advisor is coming to Dover Bay school – you can meet with that advisor – in May. Ask your school counsellor to make that appointment. Talking about this in person is usually best, so you can be very clear on your next steps and how to take them.


Lorna Millard
Coordinator
Advising Centre
Vancouver Island University
Telephone: (250) 740-6410
www.viu.ca/advising