hi! i’m currently a high school senior in turkey istanbul. my question is about college applications for us. so hereit is:
turkish college entrance examinations that i’ll enter is now just months away(it’s in june 2015) and after that i’ll officially finish highschool. but i really wanna go to us for college and my only problem is i haven’t got an sat score yet.(unfortunately i missed the sat exams last year that was held in december im my country.)so if i enter sat after i finish highschool, which will be in summer of 2015, can i apply to a college and start before 2016?thank you very much in advance for your helpful answers…
Well, you learned a lesson; don’t miss a deadline. This is a very critical lesson you need to engrave in your head when you study in college, particularly in U.S.
Since you don’t seem to have either SAT/ACT or IETLS/TOEFL/iBT, you can’t start Fall 2015 class.
What are your grades, how much can you pay yearly, what are your fields of interest and what are your Ecs?
If you have pay from 48k~65k per year, bingo. You can go to college in Turkey and transfer to US colleges after studying for a semester~1 year(although top colleges pick just a few of int. transfer).
However, if you need FA/scholarship, you should take a gap year. Only a couple schools offer int. transfer scholarship/FA(MIT and Harvard being two of them), and unless you are like winner of International level competition, selected for national cancer research,etc, you won’t get into these colleges. So, take a gap year and do what you think are intellectually enriching and interesting to colleges
well, first of all thank you so much for your answer. you changed my mind about this site.(i thought noone would answer my question)
before i say anything, i should tell you that i can’t pay those amounts of money since my family earns that money a year:) so i’m gonna be needing some kind of FA/scholarship.
about my grades; my highschool gpa is 90/100, my sat scores are around 2100(i’m doing the collegeboard sat practice tests), my ec’s include : student exchange program in south africa, giving aid to some poor children there, 5 math olympic medals(one of them is international it was something called AMC), i am the captain of my school’s soccer team, i play violin( well i’m not so good at it but i’m really keen.) and lastly i got a recommendation letter from a minister in my country.
so what should i do? do you suggest taking a gap year or starting college in turkey and trying to transfer to a us college while i’m enrolled in a university here?
thank you and please excuse my writing:)
Do you mean a medal from IMO, International Math Olympiad?
What are the others? If the 4 others awards are as prestigious as IMO, colleges will actually love to accept you
no it’s not IMO. it’s american mathematics competition. but unfortunately my other medals are local so i don’t know if colleges would actually care about them.
i got some other ECs, too.
school mun team
school debating team
organized ANMUN(a national MUN organization)
and organized a nationwide debating competition called GFC
and i gotta say i’m not really looking to get into an ivy league school or something. i’m just looking for an average college with lots of internationals.(which gives financial aid, of course;)) so what would be your suggested schools for me?
Well then its not international ita just AMC.
Which school do you go to? Robert, TED, AA … ?
kabatas erkek lisesi
@paul2752 if i can enter to a competition that’s held in us, doesn’t it mean it is international?
No not exactly…International competition means, a competition which people from all over the world competr.
hey dont be jealous if you are not gonna help me go t r o l l somewhere else
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of what can I be jealous? I am just stating the fact. I am a foreigner and I took AMC in USA, and it didn’t count as an international competition. International competitions are named like International Math Olympiad, International Chemistry Olympiad, international etc etc.
Besides, I already told you what you can do on my 1st reply
thanks
@sakasaka ;
You might have a chance if you’ve been in a private school like Robert, or UAA, and your grades “could” be good substitutes for SAT, but since you are not studying at one of them… It looks hard, even “impossible”.
Let me explain why it is impossible in a few basic bullet points:
1-) You haven’t taken SAT yet, and even though you would have taken the next one, it would not help you because of deadlines. It’s too late, mate…
2-) You mentioned that you have medals but almost all applicants do, they have lots of medals from various activities and domestic competitions… But these medals are efficient only if they are international and taken in really prestigious competitions.
3-) Be realistic. You demand financial aid (and a huge one), however, there are thousands of domestic students and millions of international students trying to enter those universities. No SAT, no ACT, no TOEFL, nothing… Good grades and medals will not save you… And without them, its almost impossible to get financial aid. So if you are okay with paying minimum $40.000 every year, there might have still be a chance for you…
In brief, you can NOT break into US universities without doing NOTHING especially.
I encourage you to enter domestic universities for this term. You can give it another shot in the next year.
And last words… Don’t forget, everybody is here trying to help you, “troll” and “jealous” are not ‘nice’ words, I believe that @paul2752 was trying to be helpful and I think his comments are truly realistic, nothing is wrong in his sentences… But I also understand you very well.
Good luck!
@oz4nss
well, firstly thanks indeed for your honest answer. i think i t really sums my situation up and as you say i’ll postpone my dreams to the next year’s SATs.
but secondly, i also want to thank you for another thing. you made me realize this: Turkish people are always the same. they are all jerks
FYI,I m not a Turkish. I just thought it would be nice to help someone
@paul2752
i wasn’t talking to you
@skieurope help here
@paul2752
Well, I think he meant me I said “The truth hurts” in Turkish, and he probably resented
Anyway, welcome to the real world, my friend… @sakasaka
Maybe next year…