Apply as freshman?

International Students
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<p>From what I understand, you cannot apply as a freshman at most
american colleges if you have previously studied at a university in
your own country. I am currently studying a separate course in
English at a university in Sweden. Now as I am not enrolled in a
whole education programme, could i still apply as a freshaman?
What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>I think you would even HAVE to apply as a first year student.</p>

3

<p>You sure? I was afraid that any higher education studies
after high school would disable you from applying as a frehsman.
I hope you're right though.</p>

4

<p>If you are a full-time university student, you're right.
If you just take one or two single course(s), you still apply as a first year student.</p>

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<p>Right, but an English course at my uni means one term full-time study.</p>

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<p>For Penn you can apply as a freshman if you have studied less than a full year. So so long as you are below 40 or so Swedish academic points, you should be fine. I would imagine it is similar for most other schools.</p>

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<p>I think if you are enrolled as a full-time student for less than 6 months, you can apply as a freshman.</p>

8

<p>I'm in my second term studying English B-level now, but I guess i could flunk a test or two to end up below 40 points.</p>

9

<p>For Harvard, Yale and Amherst, you can apply as freshman as long as you will have studied less than a year by the time of enrollment.Most other colleges require you to apply as transfer regardless of how long you have studied at university. But that's for fulltime enrollment only.</p>

<p>Since you only enrolled for one or two courses, then as barium said you can probably apply as freshman even if you had to do full-time studies for a term.</p>

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<p>Btw, don't flunk any tests lol, even if you apply as freshman they will probably want a transcript from the university.</p>

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<p>Yeah, don't do that.</p>

12

<p>Best if you send emails to universities you're applying to. That way you'll get the best, most accurate info.</p>

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<p>thanks for the help, I'll send out some emails to be sure.</p>

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<p>ya..........I would hav preferd that thing first(email the collegs n ask them)...</p>

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<p>Contact the schools you wish to apply to.
Some schools have different rules for your kind of situation.</p>