<p>Hey, I'm in the US but I follow a french Bac with OIB. I'm interested in applying to the elite schools (Yale, Princeton, Harvard, MIT) but I don't know what the reception of the French Bac is.
Does anyone have any info on past applicants with a French Bac (OIB)?</p>
<p>BTW: For those who are familiar, I'm in the Bac S (Scientific Bac)</p>
<p>The French Baccalaureate is well-received. It’s usually treated like the International Baccalaureate or the German Abitur. Many colleges give a full year’s worth of transfer credit for good scores, which is about the equivalent of 6-8 APs.</p>
<p>The schools you mentioned will be reasonably familiar with it since they each have a lot of international applicants.</p>
<p>At the super selective schools however, do not expect to receive too much credit as usually all the applicants are strong and in the 15-16 range on OIB or 40+ on IB so some only award perhaps 12 credits/1 semester.</p>
<p>The degree itself will make you on par with other applicants at ivys/ivy-simliar (mit, stanford, hopkins, duke, chicago)</p>
<p>Thanks WealthofInformation, I have a 15.4 overall average but my school “translates” our grades to A-B-C… Do you know if schools understand that the Bac S is significantly harder than the other ones?</p>
<p>I passed the OIB.
I do not think that schools make a difference between S, and ES.
And I am afraid they do not understand that the Bac S is harder than the other ones. (and this is true)
But, if you intend to study anything related to natural sciences or Mathematics, it will be much easier for you.</p>
<p>Please note I am talking about schools in the UK, sorry I forgot to mention.</p>