<p>hello,
I'll try to put it short. I'm international student finishing school this year, GPA around 3.3.
18 years old. I' going to take SAT in the end of the year. I'll be in university then and probably
will have finished 1st semester.</p>
<p>Is it good idea to send university grades also? Will it viewed positively or negatively?
It would be great opportunity to make up for high school gpa.
By the time I apply, I'll be 19 years old. too old?</p>
<p>thank you in advance</p>
<p>If you have been studying in a university, it is required that you send those grades when you apply for admission here. Check the policies for the places that you will apply to. Some might consider you to be a transfer applicant.</p>
<p>I’ll be studying engineering here but I might change my major. Is it better not to send university grades? I’l have studied 3 months only by the time i apply. I don’t want to apply as transfer student</p>
<p>If you don’t want to apply as a transfer student, then don’t start college anywhere before you have finished applying in the US and have been accepted or rejected here.</p>
<p>Each institution posts right on its website the information about what constitutes a transfer student. In some cases even one college level credit earned after completing high school will cause an applicant to be considered a transfer. At other institutions, if you will not have completed a full year of college courses before enrolling, you are still a freshman applicant. Each place sets its own policy, so you do need to investigate each case separately.</p>
<p>If you are currently enrolled elsewhere while you are completing your applications, you will probably be asked to send mid-term reports from your instructors along with your application, and you will be required to send an official copy of that university’s transcript as soon as you complete the semester (if you apply in the fall), and when the academic year ends in the spring. Not sending this information constitutes academic fraud.</p>
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<p>It’s not a question of better or worse, it’s a matter of what’s REQUIRED, which is to send you transcripts from every college you ever attended. This is how colleges check for your past enrollment, including Intl. colleges:</p>
<p>[National</a> Student Clearinghouse](<a href=“http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/]National”>http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/)</p>
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<p>As hm1 says, whether you apply as a fr or transfer applicant depends on how a college defines a transfer, so you need to go and read each college’s policy. The ONLY way to assure that you can apply to any US college as a fr applicant is to take a gap year and not attend college.</p>
<p>thanks for information. one more question? what’s the difference when applying as a transfer? Do I have to take exactly the same major as in my country?
If accepted, will I start from the beginning or continue from second semester?</p>
<p>when I apply to US college I take gap year already. Since no one can guarantee successful
admission, I have to attend college here. Graduating as early as possible is crucial to me,
while I intend to become Pilot and have to earn enough money before I’m 30 somehow.
Applying to US college is the best way. I’ll need 100 years to earn 150 000 bucks here.</p>
<p>Lots of people change their majors when they transfer. Don’t worry about that.</p>