Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Registration Chapter 2, Registration 0.5


The whole registration process is a lengthy process! But, this part, you can accomplish in just one day.

So after knowing the buildings, the first step is to get a dorm. If you are staying outside the University you may skip this and just go to the next step. Caveat, be sure to have your “official proof of lodging (housing certificate) either by the authority of the hotel/guest house you live in or by the local police station if you live in a private-owned house/ apartment.”  (Registration for self-supporting, BLCU website)

Getting a dorm
1. Go to Student Housing Services Center located between Dorm Building 1 and 2.

2. Present your Admission Letter and JW201/202
If you’re a scholarship student, you have a pre-assigned dorm; Dorm9 for girls and Dorm1 for boys.*

3. If you have preferred dorm, you have to inform the staffs. The staffs will check which dorms can accommodate you. You need to settle the full amount of your stay.  If you have booked a dorm in advance, you can go directly to the dorm.

4. You will be instructed as to which dorm to go and once you are in the dormitory, you will be asked for passport. The dorm staff will issue a Temporary Residence Permit once all documentation and payments are completed. Make a copy of the Temporary Residence Permit!

Your College’s Office, Tuition Payment, and Insurance
There are different colleges in BLCU but almost all offices are located in ground floor of Main Building. You really have the option to go here first or to get dorm first. What will you do here?

-   You again need your admission documents and passports. Give your documents to the personnel there and they will give you forms to fill up and a checklist of what documents you need. They will also give you a free M-zone SIM card and student handbook.

-    Why do you need to get a dorm first? The Dorm will give you your Temporary Residence Permit. It is one of the items in the required documents list. So if you have the Temporary Residence Permit from your dorm, you do not need to go to the dorm and back to the office.

-      They will issue you tuition fee voucher and you need to pay your tuition. To quote from the BLCU website,
You need to go to ICBC (Room 120, Office Buildin, the building with white highlight in the campus map) or finance office (Room 108, Office Building) to pay the tuition and buy medical insurance on the second floor of Run Run Shaw Teaching Building (the building with green highlight in the campus map). Below are means of payment:

If you pay in cash, or traveler’s check, pay at the ICBC (Industry and Commercial Bank of China, Room 120, Office Building) and then exchange for the invoice in the Finance Office (Room 108, Office Building).

If you pay by international VISA Card, Master Card, American Express Card (the bank will charge 3% commission, if your card is not applied in China), you may pay directly in the Finance Office (Room 108, Office Building).

-          If you’re a self-supporting student, you need to make sure you have all of these:
o   Admission Notice
o   JW202
o   Receipt of tuition from bank or Finance Office
o   Insurance receipt/card
o   Passport
o   Copy of Passport
o   Copy of your Visa
o   Copy of Registration Form of Temporary Residence
o   At least 5pieces 3.5cmx4.5cm ID picture in white or blue background
o   Accomplished registration form for international students

-          If you’re a scholarship student, you need these:
o   Admission Notice
o   CSC scholarship notice
o   JW201
o   Passport
o   Copy of Passport
o   Copy of your Visa
o   Copy of Registration Form of Temporary Residence
o   At least 5pieces 3.5cmx4.5cm ID picture in white or blue background
o   Accomplished registration form for international students

Submit these documents to the College Office and they will issue you a schedule of activities that you need to accomplish before you are issued your Student Card. For scholarship students, you will be given a slip of paper which needs to be signed by the officer in the Room2, 2nd Floor of Run Run Shaw Building. Once this paper is signed by the officer, you can now go to the Accounting and Finance Office (Rm107 of white highlight in the map) to collect your one-time settlement assistance and monthly allowance.

If your papers were signed after the 15th of the month, you will only receive half of the monthly allowance. Otherwise, you will receive the whole monthly allowance.

*Side Bar
My male classmates were placed in Dorm 4. They were graduate school (Master program) scholarship students who needed one-year language training before entering graduate school proper). According to them, they didn’t pay any additional fees to get in Dorm4. They were just assigned to Dorm4 . Thus, my theory is graduate school scholarship students gets in Dorm4 and language training scholarship students goes to either Dorm1 or Dorm9. 

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