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Undergraduate Admissions for applicants from foreign secondary schools: required documents

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For all applicants

  • CV/Résumé (in French or English, depending on the language of the programme);
  • All official academic transcripts from the last three years of secondary education (including all available grades for the current year). For the 2025-2026 admission procedure, we will need the academic transcripts of the three years preceding the high school diploma. For candidates currently in their last year of high school, this corresponds to the 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years (2023, 2024 and 2025 for the candidates from education systems with a school year from January to December);
  • Two academic references from high school teachers or heads of school (mandatory). You may attach extra academic and/or professional references (optional);
  • Final secondary school diploma, if already obtained;
  • Copy of your ID/Passport;
  • Optional: standardised tests (SAT, ACT, etc.); language tests (IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge, DELF, DALF, etc.).

Please do not overload your application with non-requested documents.

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Applicants preparing an International Baccalaureate (IB)

Applicants who will obtain the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) or the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) must also submit IB predicted grades issued during the current school year (official document stamped and signed by the school). Should this document be missing, your application will be deemed incomplete.

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Applicants preparing a US High School Diploma

Applicants who hold, or will hold, a US High School Diploma must provide:

  • Multi-annual school transcript, if possible with unweighted GPA out of 4 (official document stamped and signed by the school).
  • A school profile
  • If obtained, all Advanced Placement (AP) scores (official score report)
  • Optional: SAT Reasoning Test, SAT Subject test (institution code: 6192) or ACT Test scores (institution code: 8312);
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Applicants preparing A-Levels (UK) or International A-levels

Applicants preparing A-Levels or International A-levels must provide an official transcript of their A-Level scores in at least three different subjects (if A-levels already obtained) or A-level predicted grades (if exams not yet obtained). If any AS-levels were sat, AS-level grades are also required.

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Applicants preparing a European Baccalaureate (EB)

Applicants preparing a European Baccalaureate need to provide their transcripts of the years S5 and S6 (if application prior to January) or S5, S6 and their note préliminaire (if already available).

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Applicants preparing the Italian Esame di Stato (liceo)

Applicants preparing the Italian maturità (Esame di stato at high school level) currently in their last year of a linguistic, scientific or humanistic high school (liceo) should provide their 3A and 4A grades, as well as grades of the first quadrimestre in the form of the scrutinio online if they are already available by the time of application. Candidates who have already obtained their diploma should also provide their final exam results

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Applicants preparing the Indian CBSE/ICSE

Applicants preparing the ICSE must also provide their CBSE/national board results grade X, or IGCSE results if they were previously in the A-level system.

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Notes

Fees & Financial Aid

Limited financial resources are not a barrier to receiving a Sciences Po education.

Nearly one in three students receives a full-fee scholarship.