Describe your admissions process and Makeform turns it into an international school application form that organizes student identity, family contacts, schooling, languages, support needs, documents, and program choices in one clear application.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a complete admissions scenario, adapt its details, or send the prompt to the Makeform builder. The example structure is a planning preview.
Audience
Families applying for an elementary or primary place
Format
Family application with prior-school details
Prompt size
489 chars
Example form structure
Family application with prior-school details
Student identity and intended entry grade
Parents, guardians, and emergency contact
Current school and curriculum
Reports, passport, and student photo
Family declaration and signature
Suggested routing tags
New applications
Documents pending
Ready for review
Ask for the applicant's current curriculum and intended entry grade separately; equivalent year groups can differ across national school systems.
Step 1
Apply
family, student, grade, and program details
Step 2
Collect
reports, identity files, and school history
Step 3
Review
admissions team checks a consistent record
Step 4
Follow up
missing items and next steps stay visible
A clearer admissions intake
International applications combine family, academic, language, and document details. A structured form keeps those answers together and shows the admissions office what still needs attention.
Show boarding, learning-support, sibling, or curriculum questions only when an earlier answer makes them relevant.
Request reports, identity pages, photos, and other school-selected files in the same submission instead of a separate email thread.
Use status tags and notifications to separate new applications, missing documents, and records ready for admissions review.
Designed for international admissions
Build around your grades, curriculum, languages, campuses, and intake calendar rather than forcing international families into a generic contact form.
Collect multiple guardians, relationship to student, contact priority, home address, local guardian, and preferred communication language.
Ask for current year group and curriculum alongside the grade and program the family is requesting at your school.
Capture languages spoken at home, years of instruction in English, and family-provided context for language placement review.
Make required documents explicit and use follow-up tags for items that arrive after the initial submission.
Build your application workflow
Start with your entry points and required records, then refine the generated form around the way your admissions team actually reviews candidates.
Tell Makeform which campuses, start terms, year groups, curricula, and day or boarding options families can request.
Add your terminology, mark essential records required, and reveal program-specific questions only for relevant applicants.
Send new-submission notices to the admissions inbox and route campus or program choices to the appropriate reviewer.
Use each structured submission as the intake record while your team follows its own evaluation and enrollment process.
Choose the right intake method
International admissions requirements change by grade, campus, and program. Compare how common intake methods handle those variations.
Field guide
Use these six sections as a practical admissions checklist, then adjust names, required fields, and supporting records to match your school's process.
Student profile
Collect the student's legal name exactly as your school needs it, preferred name, birth date, current address, nationality, and contact details where age appropriate.
Family contacts
International families may have guardians in different countries or a local contact. Give each person a separate set of relationship, address, phone, email, and communication-preference fields.
School history
Ask for schools attended, attendance dates, current grade, curriculum, teaching language, and recent subjects so reviewers can interpret academic records in context.
Languages and support
Separate home languages, instructional languages, and English-learning history. Invite families to describe support used at the current school without asking the form to make placement decisions.
Supporting records
Name each upload clearly and say which reporting period or page is needed. Separate upload fields are easier to review than one unlabeled bundle.
Declarations
Present your own accuracy statement, communication preferences, and application acknowledgment directly before the checkbox and signature fields.
Related school tools
Pair the main application with focused forms for inquiries, records, enrollment, family feedback, and fee collection.
Capture early family interest before inviting a full application.
Open toolCollect structured requests for school reports and academic files.
Open toolCreate a focused questionnaire for an additional review stage.
Open toolGather enrollment details after your school completes its admissions decision.
Open toolAsk families about onboarding and school communication experiences.
Open toolCreate a separate form for school-selected fee and payment information.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for admissions teams replacing PDFs, email attachments, or generic enrollment forms.
It is an admissions intake form for families seeking a place at an international school. It typically combines student identity, requested grade and term, family contacts, prior schooling and curriculum, languages, program choices, supporting records, and a family declaration in one structured submission.
Start with student and guardian details, requested campus, grade and start term, current and previous schools, curriculum, subjects, languages, emergency contacts, and clearly labeled document uploads. Add boarding, transport, sibling, activity, or program questions only when they belong in your admissions stage.
Yes. Add dropdowns for grade, curriculum, campus, and intake, then use conditional logic to show the questions relevant to that selection. For example, secondary applicants can see subject-choice fields while primary applicants see teacher and classroom-history questions.
Yes. Add separate file-upload fields for each record your school requests, such as recent reports, transcripts, a student photo, or an identity page. Clear field labels help families attach the right item and help reviewers see what is missing.
Ask separately about languages spoken at home, languages used at prior schools, years of instruction in English, and the student's comfort using each language. Use those responses as family-provided admissions context and follow your school's own language review process.
Yes. Ask whether the family is applying for day or boarding placement, then reveal residential preferences, local guardian, travel contact, and other boarding-specific questions only when boarding is selected.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free form creation and unlimited free responses. You can generate, edit, and publish the application without a usage cap; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
The response becomes a structured submission for your team. You can notify an admissions inbox, send selected data into a connected workflow, tag records by stage, and contact the family for missing items while your school follows its own review process.
Replace scattered admissions attachments.
