How We Source This

Nobody behind Overseas Intel is a former admissions officer or a certified counselor. So the trust this site asks for doesn't rest on a title — it rests on where every number actually comes from, and on refusing to fake precision the underlying systems don't actually support.

The rule: official sources only

UK entry requirements come from UCAS and each university's own published course pages. Irish entry requirements come from the CAO and each Irish university's own published points requirements. Not an admissions-consulting blog, and not a number rounded or rephrased to sound more precise than the source actually supports. If a course doesn't publish a figure, we say so instead of estimating.

The number we refuse to make up

A lot of sites convert an SAT or ACT score into an equivalent UCAS points or CAO points figure, because it looks clean and comparable. We don't do that. The US, UK, and Irish systems measure genuinely different things — a single-number conversion would look precise while actually being a guess dressed up as data. Instead, each course on this site shows what it actually publishes as its requirement, and the calculator tells you plainly whether your real score clears it — a two-path comparison, not a manufactured single number. See About Overseas Intel for how that plays out in the calculator specifically.

If a course doesn't report something

Some courses don't publish every field — a specific points threshold, a scholarship amount, a current-cycle deadline. When that happens, the article or listing says the data isn't available rather than filling the gap with a plausible-sounding guess. A number that looks confident but isn't real is worse than an honest gap, because it's the kind of thing a reader might actually plan around.

Why this matters to us

Overseas Intel is being built together with three cousins while they're actually in the middle of college admissions — the conflicting advice, the same recycled stats repeated until they sounded true, no honest “chance me” tool that didn't want an account or hand back a confident-looking guess, and the financial side nearly impossible to pin down clearly, all happening in real time. Studying abroad adds a second layer most sites don't even try to get right: two different admissions systems that don't map onto each other cleanly. They wanted one real place to find answers instead of piecing it together across a dozen half-trustworthy sites — that's the standard this page describes.

Questions or corrections

If a number looks wrong, email support@fuselyn.com with the course and the figure. See About Overseas Intel for who builds this and where the underlying data comes from.