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 2020-21

UWC DILIJAN OVERVIEW UWC Dilijan is fully committed to providing its intentionally diverse, With its opening in fall 2014, UWC Dilijan became the global community of students a transformative, two-year, residential 14th member of the UWC movement. 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 INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING by Ruben Vardanyan and Veronika Zonabend with the CELEBRATION OF DIFFERENCE support 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 The United World College (UWC) movement makes A SENSE OF IDEALISM education a force to unite people, nations and PERSONAL CHALLENGE cultures for peace 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. 83% of our students are on different levels of need-based scholarship, with 30% receiving full scholarships and the other 53% receiving partial.

GLOBAL: UWC Dilijan’s 226 students hail from 89 different countries. 11% are Armenian, 8% 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 2021 and 2022) are: its teaching and residential staff also hail from a variety of countries around the world, including: Albania Burundi Ghana Lebanon Nigeria Slovenia Uganda Argentina Canada Greece Lithuania Norway Somalia Ukraine Armenia Chile India Luxembourg Oman South Africa United Arab Emirates Armenia Jamaica Australia China Indonesia Macedonia Pakistan South Korea United Kingdom Australia Netherlands Bangladesh Colombia Iraq Madagascar Palestine Spain United States Barbados Costa Rica Ireland Malaysia Peru Sudan Venezuela Britain New Zealand Belarus Denmark Israel Malta Philippines Sweden Vietnam Canada Philippines Belgium El Salvador Italy Mauritius Portugal Switzerland Yemen Bhutan Estonia Japan Mexico Romania Syria Zambia Denmark Russia Bolivia Ethiopia Jordan Mongolia Russia Taiwan Zimbabwe Germany Scotland Brazil France Kazakhstan Namibia Rwanda Tajikistan Bulgaria Georgia Kenya Nepal Sierra Leone Thailand India Spain Burkina Faso Germany Kuwait Netherlands Slovakia Turkey Ireland Sri Lanka Italy 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 intensive experiential learning.

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

THE CLASS OF 2021 UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Flekke, Norway Llantwit Major, Wales, UK UWC Changshu China UWC Adriatic Group 1: Studies in language and literature Changshu, China Pearson College UWC Duino, Italy • Armenian A: Literature HL / SL Victoria, British Columbia , Canada • English A: Language & Literature HL / SL UWC in Mostar Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina • English A: Literature HL / SL • Spanish A: Literature HL / SL • School-Supported Self-Taught Language A: Literature SL UWC ISAK Japan • Arabic, Belarusian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Dzongkha/ Karuizawa, Japan UWC Maastricht Bhutanese, French, Georgian, German, Japanese, UWC Dilijan College Maastricht, The Netherlands Dilijan, Armenia Kinyarwanda, Nepali, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese UWC Robert Bosch College Group 2: Language acquisition Freiburg, Germany UWC USA Li Po Chun UWC • Montezuma Sha Tin, Hong Kong SAR, China English B HL New Mexico, USA • German ab initio SL • Russian ab initio SL UWC South East Asia • Spanish ab initio SL UWC Costa Rica Singapore Santa Ana, Costa Rica Group 3: Individuals and societies UWC Thailand • Economics HL / SL Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Phuket, Thailand Mbabane, Swaziland • Environmental Systems & Societies SL UWC Mahindra • Geography HL / SL College • UWC East Africa Global Politics HL / SL Moshi and Arusha, Tanzania Paud, Pune, India • History HL / SL • Information Technology in a Global Society SL (online through Pamoja) • Philosophy HL / SL • Psychology SL (online through Pamoja) Group 4: Sciences UNIVERSITY COUNSELLING STATEMENTS & POLICIES • Biology HL / SL • Students are limited to 10 applications worldwide. Any application a university receives • Chemistry HL / SL • Environmental Systems & Societies SL from a UWC Dilijan student is a serious one. • Physics HL / SL • UWC Dilijan does not calculate a GPA or class rank for students. Group 5: Mathematics • UWC Dilijan does not award academic honors or prizes. • Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches HL / SL • Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation HL / SL • UWC Dilijan will report to universities any suspensions and expulsions that students Group 6: The arts incur in their two years here. • Music HL / SL • UWC Dilijan does not provide any formal preparation for standardized tests such as the • Theatre HL / SL SAT, ACT, and TOEFL. • Visual Arts HL / SL UNIVERSITY MATRICULATIONS FOR CLASSES OF 2018-20 (Multiple number of students enrolled in parentheses)

Armenia Middle East American University of Armenia Haigazian University, Lebanon Northwestern University in Qatar Asia NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan (2) Yale-NUS College (4) United States Bard College Australia Bennington College (4) The University of Melbourne Brown University (5) Carleton College Canada Case Western Reserve University (3) University of British Columbia (4) Colby College (3) University of Toronto (5) College of the Atlantic (4) Columbia University Europe Colorado College (2) Anglo-American University, Czech Republic Connecticut College (3) Bard College Berlin, Germany Davidson College (3) Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Duke University Erasmus University College, The Netherlands Earlham College (2) ESSEC Business School, France Emory University (2) HotelSchool the Hague, The Netherlands Georgetown University Karolinska Institute, Sweden Gettysburg College KU Leuven, Belgium Grinnell College Leiden University, The Netherlands (3) Harvard University Leiden University College The Hague, The Netherlands (2) Lake Forest College (11) Lund University, Sweden Lewis & Clark College (12) Sciences Po (Le Havre), France Luther College (2) University College Groningen, The Netherlands Lynn University University College Maastricht, The Netherlands Macalester College (11) University College Twente, The Netherlands Middlebury College (5) University College Utrecht, The Netherlands (2) Mount Holyoke College (2) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2) Northwestern University (5) University of Groningen, The Netherlands Pomona College Utrecht University, The Netherlands Princeton University Willem de Kooning Academy, The Netherlands Ringling College of Art and Design (6) Skidmore College (2) Latin America St. John's College Universidad Panamericana, Mexico (2) St. Lawrence University (3) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil St. Olaf College (14) Stanford University United Kingdom Swarthmore College Abertay University The College of Idaho (7) King's College London The George Washington University Loughborough University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Queen Mary University of London (2) The University of Oklahoma (5) Queen’s University Belfast Trinity College (2) Royal Holloway, University of London University of California, Berkeley University College London University of Chicago University of Birmingham University of Florida (11) University of Cambridge University of Richmond University of Edinburgh University of Rochester (4) University of Leeds Wartburg College (7) University of Manchester Washington and Lee University (2) University of St Andrews Whitman College (4) University of Sussex Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2) University of Warwick Yale University

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