APs, IB, exams

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>I am an internationa student and i don't know how works american system and admission requirements..
is it important to get AP or IB exams before enrolling to college? I have read MIT admission : helpful tips for international student and it doesn't speaks aobut them, but i have seen many Currculum vitae on this website and i have noticed that people before college get AP or IB exams to make their CV stronger.</p>

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<p>Im an international as well. I dont think those exams are important. You need the SAT subjects</p>

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<p>I had never heard of AP or IB before I started learning about universities in the US. I guess those are only provided in some countries. Anyway I think one doesn’t have to complete everything in this world to get in. Just focus on things provided in your country, and try hard to follow your passion, that’s enough.</p>

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<p>If you have access to it though I’d say try it (if your regular school course covers the topics you might be able to self-study), there’s nothing to lose. If you get good results in the AP, I guess it might help.</p>

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<p>I think that in italy we don’t have that type of exam, so if you say that it’s not important there is no problem.</p>

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<p>I wish to give AP </p>

<p>but it could contradict with my regular exams it will be a very close call … ( timings are extremely close </p>

<p>Okz If u are willing TO give AP exams , and it do really contradicts with ur regular course
How much U shuld really give ?? - Is One enough ??</p>

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<p>Don’t fret about it. MIT evaluates every applicant in terms of what the system they were in was offering to them. For example, some folks ask whether international A-levels, an Abitur, or the International Baccalaureate (IB) is preferred by MIT. The answer has to be that most students don’t get a lot of choice as to what their high school offers, and so it is hard to fault the student for the choice of exams they ended up sitting. </p>

<p>My personal and completely non-official belief is that the IB or the Abitur (particularly the Finnish version of the Abitur) is probably better prep for MIT than A-levels or APs alone. But people should definitely not fret that their CV is “missing” some exam or another. The only exams that must not be missed are the required ones:

  1. The SAT Reasoning Test with the writing component or the ACT with the writing test, for which non-native speakers can substitute the TOEFL.
  2. An SAT Subject Test in math (level 1 or 2)
  3. An SAT Subject Test in a scientific discipline (physics, chemistry, or biology e/m)</p>

<p>Nothing else needs to be on the CV, and you might do better to present the tests you took as part of your academic program than to try to take something that you are ill-prepared for, that is expensive, and that you do poorly on.</p>