Once the work has started, one question comes back: after years with Liwaza, in practice, how does my child enter a Top 50 university?
That is not the same question as “why aim for the Top 50,” or “what does he do each week.” This is the end of the path. The file is ready. What happens next?
It is not a miracle week after the bac
Grades matter. The bac matters. On their own, they do not open a door to Harvard, Oxford, or Tsinghua the week results come out.
The file is built from 6e (Grade 6): the SAT — and the UAT if the university asks for it — academic English, activities held over time with dated proof, a funding plan. When application season opens, we do not invent a profile. We send what has been built.
We do not start from “my child will go to Harvard.” We start from the profile. Often we prepare three lists — ambitious, realistic, safety — inside the Top 50 and the destinations we name: the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Canada if the university is truly in the Top 50 that year.
The country is not locked at twelve. A child may name Korea and art: that is a voice, not a contract. Country and programme are chosen later, from the track and from the family's financial capacity. Until then, we train to the hardest bar — the US holistic file: SAT, English, essays, recommendations, extras — so other universities in that set stay reachable. That is not “she will go to the United States.”
What the file actually holds
Four things, ready before the portals open.
The SAT compares children from different bac systems. It does not say an Ivorian or Cameroonian bac is weaker. It says the systems do not compare as they stand.
IELTS or TOEFL show that the child can follow classes in English. Many Top 50 programmes ask for a high level, often C1. We do not promise that score.
Extras need dated proof: a finished project, a responsibility, a portfolio. A robotics club held over time, if the project leans tech, is not the same line as an activity added in the final year. That is what the portfolio is for: the file should not look like thousands of others.
Recommendation letters are asked for early. Tests are taken months before the deadlines, not the week of sending.
During the Liwaza years, a note to you every two weeks holds the thread. That is not the subject of this page.
The GRE, GMAT, MCAT, or LSAT are other levels — a master's, law, medicine. That is not this path.
Applications follow each country's calendar
Each destination has its season. There is not one calendar you can copy.
Oxford and Cambridge close earlier than many others. In the United States, early decision moves the deadline forward again, and often commits the child if they are admitted. The United Kingdom, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Canada: each has its dates. The detail is set when the profile and the money are clear. This page is not a do-it-yourself timetable.
We do not send a single university “because we said Harvard.” We send the three lists, on the calendars that match.
The university decides, then the paperwork
First the decision. Only then the visa and the funding documents.
In the United States, the university issues an I-20; the child then applies for an F-1 visa. In the United Kingdom, the university issues a CAS (Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies); then comes the student visa. The other destinations in our set have their own papers, once admission is received.
This is not a promised visa. The rules change. The family checks them in the year they leave.
The money plan has moved with the file. Scholarship, loan, savings: that is prepared. It is not guaranteed. Outcomes depend on the profile, the scores, and the rules of the university and of funders. Liwaza prepares. Liwaza does not guarantee a scholarship or a loan.
After the degree, some countries have routes for talent. In the United Kingdom, the Graduate Route and the High Potential Individual visa exist, under their real names — about two years, three after a doctorate, according to that year’s rule. That is not the subject of this page. It is not a promise to stay.
Another door, later: a local bachelor's, then a master's of the Harvard Kennedy type. That is a longer path, on another track. It is not the promise made here to families.
We do not guarantee the name on the letter
If someone tells you: “if Liwaza followed long enough and they are not admitted, Liwaza failed” — that sentence is false. It is an admission guarantee in other words. We do not hold it.
We take the child from 6e. We are confident about English: with the work and the teachers, a B2 can often be built. The SAT decides how high the file climbs inside the Top 50. Even if the very top of the top is not reached, those years leave a serious international file — for another Top 50 university, or a selective university in the same set of countries. Not a school chosen by default, somewhere else.
We do not guarantee the name on the letter. We guarantee that the preparation was aimed at that bar.
What comes next, for your child, is seen in the diagnostic: where they stand, what is realistic, and when that application season can truly begin.