Who we are
About INTAKE
INTAKE helps applicants from Uzbekistan choose a programme abroad and prepare the application.
This is an early version built by a small team, and we are still checking the catalogue.
What we never do
We take no money from universities
Not for a place in the catalogue and not for a place in your list. Only Plus and Pro users pay us.
We do not call and do not ask for your number
You write to us when it suits you. Every way to reach us is on the Contacts page.
We take no payment outside the plans page
Never by transfer to a card. One payment opens a plan for 30 days, and the plan does not renew by itself.
How we score
Where the requirements come from, how a score is made from them and what it does not mean. The product runs on the same rules.
Where the requirements come from
First come the programme’s own requirements, from the university’s page.
What we do not have from the programme’s own page comes from the country template, collected from official ministry, agency and visa pages. For a country without a template of its own, the general rules of its region apply, and they are labelled that way.
Every requirement links to its source and shows the date the page was read. When a person has compared it with the source, it says “checked” with that date. When not, it says “Not checked yet”.
As of 18 September 2026, a person has compared 68 of 18,915 requirement rows in the eight destinations with the source; the rest were taken from the pages automatically and are marked as not checked.
How the score is made
Your profile is compared with the programme’s bar in up to eight parts, and each part gets 0 to 100:
- Academic record
- English
- Admission test
- Activities
- Motivation letter
- Recommendations
- Portfolio
- Documents
- Parts the programme does not ask for are left out, except activities: we always score those. The rest are added up with the weights of the programme’s country, shown in the table below.
- When we have no minimum for a programme, we use the usual bar for the level: for a bachelor’s, a grade average of 3.0 out of 4.0 and IELTS 6.0.
- The more selective the university, the more is taken off, up to 20 points. The result, from 0 to 100, is the readiness score.
| Country | Academic record | English | Admission test | Activities | Everything else |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 40% | 25% | 5% | 10% | 20% |
| Germany | 55% | 20% | 0% | 5% | 20% |
| South Korea | 35% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 25% |
| United States | 30% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| China | 35% | 15% | 10% | 10% | 30% |
| Other countries | 40% | 20% | 5% | 10% | 25% |
Categories
- Safe
85 points and above
- Target
70 to 84 points
- Reach
50 to 69 points
- Dream
Below 50 points
- Via a foundation year
When only the years of school fall short. We then name the route: a Studienkolleg in Germany, a language year for Korean-taught programmes in Korea and Chinese-taught ones in China, a foundation year elsewhere. With an 11-year attestat this is the usual case where 12 or more years of school are required, for example in the UK and Germany.
- Not eligible
When a mandatory requirement is not met and cannot be fixed before applying, such as a different level of education or an age outside the allowed range.
A shortfall you can fix (IELTS too low, a missing document, a test not yet taken) does not change the category by itself: it lowers the score and becomes a task in the plan.
What the score does not mean
The score shows how ready your profile is for the programme’s requirements, weighted the way that country weighs them. It does not estimate your chance of admission: the university decides, and it also looks at things no published requirement states.
Found a wrong requirement?
Send the link to the programme and the line that does not match its source. A person reads every message.
The rules we follow
No invented numbers
The score is calculated by the rules described under “How we score”. There is no admission probability anywhere in INTAKE, because nobody can calculate one honestly.
Sources next to each fact
Every requirement links to its page and shows the date the page was read. If a person has compared the requirement with its source, the check date is beside it; if not, it says so.
We calculate the score by rules, and AI only explains it
The score and the category come from scoring rules applied to published requirements. AI is used only in the counsellor: it explains the result in your language and links to the requirements it used.
Places in the list are not for sale
No university pays to appear in the catalogue, to rank higher or to be shown as a match.
Your data is yours
You can download everything your account holds as one file and delete the account on the same page of your profile.
Sources and licences
The world catalogue is built from open datasets. Each record notes the dataset it came from, and the licences are listed below.
| Source | What we took from it | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Research Organization Registry (ROR) (opens in a new tab) | 26,610 active education organisations in 224 countries | CC0-1.0 |
| OpenAlex institutions (opens in a new tab) | 27,399 institutions with coordinates, in 224 countries | CC0-1.0 |
| Wikidata (opens in a new tab) | 19,978 institutions in 207 countries; the only source that states ownership and student numbers | CC0-1.0 |
| Discover Uni (HESA) (opens in a new tab) | 460 UK providers and 27,374 undergraduate programmes | CC BY 4.0, credit HESA, www.hesa.ac.uk |
| US College Scorecard (opens in a new tab) | 2,342 accredited US institutions and 31,076 programmes | A work of the U.S. federal government (17 U.S.C. §105) |
| Official ministry, agency and visa pages (opens in a new tab) | Requirement templates for every country: written country by country where we could, by region elsewhere | Per source, recorded with every requirement |
Merging records from different datasets is never perfect: duplicates and organisations that are not universities sometimes get through. If a record looks wrong, write to us. A person reads every message.