Uwc Dilijan School Profile 2019-20

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UNITED WORLD COLLEGE DILIJAN (Dilijan International School of Armenia Foundation) 7 Getapnya Street, 3903 Dilijan, Armenia +374 60 750 800 www.uwcdilijan.org UWC DILIJAN SCHOOL PROFILE 2019-20

UWC DILIJAN OVERVIEW

With its opening in fall 2014, UWC Dilijan became the UWC Dilijan is fully committed to providing its intentionally diverse, 14th member of the UWC movement. global community of students a transformative, two-year, residential education with the UWC movement’s core values at the forefront: UWC Dilijan evolved from the original idea to create Dilijan International School of Armenia, ﬁrst conceived in 2006 by INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING Ruben Vardanyan and Veronika Zonabend with the support CELEBRATION OF DIFFERENCE of other Founding Donors. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND INTEGRITY The College is now an integral part of Dilijan and Armenia and aims to have positive personal, local and global impact. MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT COMPASSION AND SERVICE

UWC MISSION RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT A SENSE OF IDEALISM The United World College (UWC) movement makes education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace PERSONAL CHALLENGE and a sustainable future. ACTION AND PERSONAL EXAMPLE

INTENTIONALLY DIVERSE, GLOBAL COMMUNITY INTENTIONAL: All students are carefully selected on the basis of merit and potential by UWC National Committees in their home countries. Students are between 16 and 18 years old upon entry, and are selected based on academic achievement, co-curricular involvement, leadership, potential and ﬁt with the UWC mission. SOCIOECONOMIC DIVERSITY: UWC Dilijan is devoted to providing educational access for students around the world. 89% of our students are on different levels of need-based scholarship, with 32% receiving full scholarships and the other 57% receiving partial. GLOBAL: UWC Dilijan’s 228 students hail from 84 different countries. 10% are Armenian, 7% are Russian, and no more than 4% of students come from any other single country.

The College administration as well as The countries represented in the current study body (Classes of 2020 and 2021) are: its teaching and residential staff also hail from a variety of countries around the world: Albania Britain Denmark Israel Mexico Philippines Syria Argentina Bulgaria Egypt Italy Montenegro Poland Tajikistan Armenia Burkina Estonia Japan Morocco Portugal Taiwan Armenia Netherlands Australia Faso Ethiopia Jordan Myanmar Russia Thailand Bangladesh Burundi France Kenya Nepal El Salvador Tunisia Australia Poland Barbados Canada Georgia Latvia Netherlands Serbia Turkey Denmark Russia Belarus Chile Germany Lebanon Nigeria Slovakia Ukraine Belgium China Greece Liberia Norway Somalia United States Germany Spain Bermuda Colombia India Lithuania Pakistan South Korea Venezuela India Sri Lanka Bhutan Costa Rica Iran Macedonia Palestine South Sudan Vietnam Bolivia Cyprus Iraq Malaysia Panama Spain Yemen Italy Syria Brazil Czech Republic Ireland Mauritius Peru Sweden Zambia Jamaica United Kingdom Zimbabwe Malaysia United States TRANSFORMATIVE, TWO-YEAR, RESIDENTIAL EDUCATION All students pursue the full International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, in English. Approximately two-thirds of students never did any core coursework in English prior to attending UWC Dilijan. As part of the IBDP, students take 3 subjects at the Higher Level (HL), and 3 subjects at the Standard Level (SL). Additionally, students complete a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course, a 4000 word Extended Essay (EE) on a topic of their choice, and the requirements of Creativity, activity, service (CAS).

Living and learning with students and staff of different cultures and backgrounds is an essential feature of UWC Dilijan. All students live on campus and are expected to be fully involved in the academic, residential and co-curricular life of the College. Residential programming and structures encourage students to explore and negotiate diversity in all aspects of life.

Co-curricular involvement is a signiﬁcant component of the student experience. Many of the co-curricular activities available at UWC Dilijan are entirely initiated and led by the students themselves. Additionally, all students are involved in on-campus service as well as off-campus engagement in the Dilijan community. The richness of learning beyond the classroom includes frequent cultural weekends and issue-oriented focus weeks, as well as two off-campus project weeks each year for inten- sive experiential learning.

IB COURSES THERE ARE 18 MEMBER SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD, WITH UWC DILIJAN BEING THE 14TH TO JOIN THE UWC MOVEMENT.

OFFERED TO UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Flekke, Norway THE CLASS OF 2020 Llantwit Major, Wales, UK UWC Changshu China UWC Adriatic Changshu, China Pearson College UWC Duino, Italy Victoria, British Columbia , Canada Group 1: Studies in language and literature UWC in Mostar Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina • English A: Language & Literature HL / SL • English A: Literature HL / SL • English A: Literature & Performance SL UWC ISAK Japan Karuizawa, Japan • Spanish A: Literature HL / SL UWC Maastricht UWC Dilijan College • School-Supported Self-Taught Language A: Literature SL Maastricht, The Netherlands Dilijan, Armenia Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, UWC Robert Georgian, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Nepali, Norwegian, Bosch College Persian, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Vietnamese Freiburg, Germany UWC USA Li Po Chun UWC Montezuma Sha Tin, Hong Kong SAR, China Group 2: Language acquisition New Mexico, USA • English B HL UWC South East Asia • French ab initio SL UWC Costa Rica Singapore • German ab initio SL Santa Ana, Costa Rica • Russian ab initio SL UWC Thailand • Spanish ab initio SL Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Phuket, Thailand Mbabane, Swaziland Group 3: Individuals and societies UWC Mahindra UWC East Africa College • Economics HL / SL Moshi and Arusha, Tanzania Paud, Pune, India • Environmental Systems & Societies SL • Geography HL / SL • Global Politics HL / SL • History HL / SL • ITGS HL (online through Pamoja) UNIVERSITY COUNSELLING STATEMENTS & POLICIES • Philosophy HL / SL • Students are limited to 10 applications worldwide. Any application a university receives Group 4: Sciences from a UWC Dilijan student is a serious one. • UWC Dilijan does not calculate a GPA or class rank for students. • Biology HL / SL • Chemistry HL / SL • UWC Dilijan does not award academic honors or prizes. • Environmental Systems & Societies SL • UWC Dilijan will report to universities any suspensions and expulsions that students • Physics HL / SL incur in their two years here. • UWC Dilijan does not provide any formal preparation for standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, Group 5: Mathematics and TOEFL. • Mathematics HL / SL • In recent years, our students have had less access to SAT Reasoning / Subject and ACT tests • Mathematical Studies SL because of limited seats in Armenia (many of our students have had to travel to neighbouring Group 6: The arts Georgia to sit the SAT), fewer test dates offered internationally, score cancellations, technological • Music HL / SL difﬁculties, and higher fees. We ask that all higher education institutions take this into account when • Theatre HL / SL evaluating our students' applications. • Visual Arts HL / SL UNIVERSITY MATRICULATIONS FOR CLASSES OF 2017-19

UNITED STATES ARMENIA Bard College American University of Armenia Bennington College (4) ASIA Brown University (2) NYU Shanghai, China Carleton College Ritsumeikan Asia Paciﬁc University, Japan Case Western Reserve University (2) Yale-NUS College (3) Colby College (4) College of the Atlantic (3) AUSTRALIA Columbia University The University of Melbourne Connecticut College (2) CANADA Davidson College (2) McGill University Duke University University of British Columbia (2) Earlham College University of Toronto (3) Emory University (2) Georgetown University EUROPE Gettysburg College Anglo-American University, Czech Republic Grinnell College Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Lake Forest College (5) The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Lewis & Clark College (9) The Karolinska Institute, Sweden Luther College (3) Leiden University, The Netherlands Lynn University Leiden University College The Hague, The Netherlands (2) Macalester College (8) Lund University, Sweden Methodist University Sciences Po (Le Havre), France Middlebury College (7) The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Minerva Schools at KGI (2) The University of Groningen, The Netherlands Mount Holyoke College University College Groningen, The Netherlands Northwestern University (4) University College Maastricht, The Netherlands Pomona College (2) University College Twente, The Netherlands Princeton University (5) University College Utrecht, The Netherlands Ringling College of Art and Design (5) Skidmore College (2) LATIN AMERICA St. John's College Universidad Panamericana, Mexico (2) St. Lawrence University (2) MIDDLE EAST St. Olaf College (14) Haigazian University, Lebanon Swarthmore College Northwestern University in Qatar The College of Idaho (4) NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The George Washington University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNITED KINGDOM The University of Oklahoma (6) Abertay University University of California, Berkeley (2) King's College London University of Florida (7) Queen Mary University of London University of Rochester (4) Queen Mary University of London Wartburg College (7) University College London (2) Washington and Lee University University of Cambridge Whitman College University of Leeds Worcester Polytechnic Institute

UNITED WORLD COLLEGE DILIJAN (Dilijan International School of Armenia Foundation) University & Career Counsellor Head of College Deputy Head 7 Getapnya Street, 3903 Dilijan, Armenia HARVEY MILLER GABRIEL ABAD FERNÁNDEZ SOPHIE DUNCKER +374 60 750 800 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.uwcdilijan.org