PRE-ARRIVAL
Route Check
It draws in your credentials and language scores (profile) and the target degree, budget, entry window, and location you enter this run as the shared premise. Turn the profile off and it judges on this run's intent alone.
It compares seven paths — language school, kenkyusei, direct master's, SGU English, direct undergraduate, undergraduate transfer, and interview-based graduate admission — returning 2-3 relative candidates and their gaps. The labels are not eligibility or admission probability.
Choose a candidate to create a phased timeline, funding plan, scholarship channels, procedures, and materials checklist. Any figure or deadline not supported by a knowledge block must go to the to-confirm list.
It outputs an A4 route plan you can copy section by section and print, then hands you straight to the next step for the route you chose — research direction, school selection, or the pre-departure guide.
Once built, the language of instruction, fields of study, travel for entrance exams and who funds it appear here.
Many applicants lock onto one path first — "go to a language school," or "sit the kenkyusei exam right away" — then bend their conditions to fit, never checking whether that route's language bar, budget, and entry window match their own profile. This mismatched route surfaces only at application or exam time: Japanese falls short of the cutoff, first-year funds run dry, the entry window is already missed — a whole year lost. The dependable way is to diagnose the routes that suit your actual footing first, then turn one into a plan with a real timeline.
undergraduate, master's, and doctorate differ throughout.
back-plan exams, applications, financial proof, and visa from it.
the first move differs completely.
tuition, living costs, and how you cover the gap.
recommendations and transcripts need rework time.
if a milestone slips, switch intake or pathway.