@GSTourGuides Hello! One more question, according to the requirements in student protal, all students need to enroll in the Columbia University Student
Health Insurance Plan, but my question is, Dual BA program will start the first two years in Sciences Po campus of France,
so is it necessary to enroll in Columbia University Student Health Insurance Plan now? or the student insurance for the
first two years should be enrolled in Sciences Po? Thanks!
This is a good question! No, you don’t need to register for Columbia University health insurance until arriving at Columbia. Also keep in mind that if you already have a health insurance plan in the United States, you could also keep that plan rather than enroll in Columbia’s Student Health Insurance Plan.
@GSTourGuides Thanks a lot for your reply! Is there anybody receive the certificat de scolarité from Sciences Po? I remember it should be available no later than May 15. I just checked France-Visas, because of the coronavirus, France has stopped issuing visas until further notice. I’m afraid it’ll influence the process of visa application, maybe it’ll cause the delay to enter France.
You are supposed to download your certificat de scholarité from your Sciences Po Student Space.
And yes, it is a complicated situation right now with COVID-19. I suggest emailing the admissions office to get clarification about how to navigate the visa application process since France is currently not issuing visas. Sorry that I can’t help there!
Great, thanks! Let me check. Have a nice weekend!
Hi Everybody,
I just attended the Sciences Po x Columbia webinar and I spent all night researching the program! I am so excited to apply to this program. To those of you who have applied, do y’all have any advice for a prospective student? Your help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi!
I’m not a Columbia/SciencesPo Dual Degree students, but I’m an admitted student for another SciencesPo Dual degree program.
I haven’t gotten any information about how to complete the administrative registration process (I wasn’t given a student ID for SciencesPo), but people are talking about their Student Spaces here. Were you guys given a SciencesPo account? (if yes, were these details from Columbia or SciencesPo?)
Thanks so much! (sorry if this isn’t the right place, this is the most active SciencesPo forum)
When I was admitted, we received an email from Sciences Po’s Accueil Administratif (administration office) with details on how to access our Sciences Po Student Space for the first time and how to complete our online administrative registration. We also got a separate email from Sciences Po admissions with our Sciences Po Student ID and temporary password to log into our Student Space to complete the administrative registration.
There was a certain time window (we had a week) within which you need to access your Student Space and complete the administrative registration. It’s possible things are slightly different now than when I was admitted in 2016, but I imagine it’s similar. Try searching “admissions@sciences-po.fr” and things like “Sciences Po Student Space” and “Sciences Po Student ID” in your email - hopefully you’ve gotten the email and just need to find it. If you haven’t, then I suggest contacted the admissions team of your dual-degree program. Hope this helps! Let me know if there’s any other info I an offer
Hello everyone! Congratulations on your admissions! I’m a French student and consider applying for the dual BA. I wanted to know if we had a chance to get into a campus though we don’t come from the area of focus. For instance, I want to apply for Reims (EURAM) but I am not American nor Canadian. What kind of interests could I develop for these countries? Also, what were your extracurriculars? Many thanks!
You definitely don’t need to be from the area of focus. Each Sciences Po campus is very diverse in terms of nationality. Generally each campus has 1/3 French students, 1/3 students from the region of focus, and 1/3 all other international students.
Students have a wide variety of exposure to the region of focus from very little to a lot of demonstrated interest. For example, they may study a language spoken in that region. They may have traveled in the region of focus. Anything like that.
It’s a little less straightforward with the Euro-American Program, as English is a prerequisite, and there may not be too many extracurriculars specific to North America at your high school. But I think it’s better if you just follow what you’re most interested in rather than trying to hand pick ECs that you think will make you a better fit for the program. If you are interested in Euro-American relations, perhaps you could try to learn more by following the news or maybe taking part in Model United Nations or attending student conferences on those kinds of topics. Perhaps there are classes/seminars on global affairs offered at local universities. Some students have done exchange programs in the United States and lived with a host family to try to learn more about the culture.
Dual BA students Euro-American Program come with a wide variety of exposure, including many who are not from the region of focus but who want to learn more about it. But as I said, you would do well to follow your interests/passions rather than try to mold yourself to fit a certain template. There is no such interest/extracurricular that you MUST pursue in order to get into this program. But if you are curious to learn more about Euro-American relations, you could try to learn more about it on your own by reading/self-studying or looking for programs like those I mentioned above.
Thank you very much! Best 
I completed the administrative registration yesterday (the deadline this year is the end of May), and got the confirmation that the application was submitted, but today when I saw the Sciences Po portal, it shows that " your application is incomplete", the reason is my visa and insurance certificate is missing and my high school diploma need to be verified (of course, I applied for the extension because I can’t get them now), is it a problem for my registration?
My another question is, my diploma is in English, do I need to do an official translation into French and submit? Thanks and have a nice weekend!
I would recommend you contact the admissions team, as they are better placed to answer these kinds of questions. I’m sure they can help!
Ok, thanks! Will do.
I am planning on applying to the Sciences Po and Columbia dual enrollment program but am unsure of what the language requirements are.
Do you happen to know if I need to already know some French as a prerequisite to being eligible for the program?
It depends on which Sciences Po program that you apply to! The Euro-Asia Program (Le Havre), Euro-America Program (Reims), and Middle East and Mediterranean Program (Menton) only require you to speak English. However, the Euro-Africa Program does require you to be proficient in French (I believe you need B2 or C1 French at least).
Unless you’re applying to the Euro-Africa Program, you don’t need to already know French. It is common for accepted students to have studied French in the past (if they are not native speakers), but there are plenty who have never studied French before starting this program.
Did you get offer from dual degree program?
Are you in?
Hi, do you happen to know if the SAT is important as an international student from Spain? I’m currently in the ‘Bachibac’ Program, which will give me both the French and Spanish diploma and I’ve seen in the website that international students are encouraged to submit sat scores. I know it says ‘encouraged’, which means it’s not required (I’m guessing?), but not taking the SAT would put me in a disadvantage, right? I still have to take the CAE exam and I’ve never prepared for the SAT, so if I had to take the exam, I would only have a few months to prepare, since this fall I’m starting my senior year and the applications deadline is January 2. I’m interested in the European-Asian one by the way.
Thank you in advance
So on the Standardized Testing & Language Proficiency page on the Dual BA website, there’s a helpful chart to help you decide which standardized tests to submit. To fulfill the standardized testing requirement, you can submit your scores for the SAT, ACT, TOEFL, IELTS, or Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE).
For your case, since you do not live in an Anglophone country, and (I assume) your school does not teach almost entirely in English, you need to submit your TOEFL, IELTS, or CAE score. In addition, “you are also strongly encouraged to submit a recent SAT or ACT score.”
Given this, it seems that it would be helpful for you to submit an SAT or ACT score, even if it is not absolutely required. It’s normal to worry about your SAT/ACT score, but keep in mind that the decisions are holistic, so every aspect of the application is considered together, and an SAT/ACT score by itself would not necessarily be the deciding factor in your admission. Also, because of COVID-19, many students will not be able to take standardized tests as many times as they ordinarily would, so the admissions team will likely keep this in mind if you only have one SAT/ACT score to submit.
Bottom line: It would help to submit an SAT/ACT score for your standardized testing requirement (as well as TOEFL, IELTS, or CAE since you’re not from an Anglophone education system), but don’t stress about it hurting your chances.