Hi,
I’m an EU gap year applicant and I’m really puzzled by the “Current or Most Recent Year Courses”.
My “course” is a standard route for entering universities in my country.
I had 3 elective and 9 required subjects last year (14-15 in the previous years); do they count as a courses and should I list them all? I received grades for every one of them each semester, but took only 4 Senior Secondary Leaving Examinations which is also standard.
Moreover, in my country subjects are called e.g. Mathematics and not Algebra 1,2 or Calculus. That means my 4th year math course wasn’t calculus or algebra only.
Whom do should I ask for help?
Don’t worry excessively about course titles- your school should also be sending a school profile that will help. Just list each class in which you were graded. For maths, just put Maths + the year number (so Maths 4, Maths 5, Maths 6 -whatever). The Admissions Committees won’t spend ages on it either: they will look more at your GC rec and school profile info (did you take the most rigorous classes available to you? how do your marks compare to the average in your year? etc). Whatever standardized testing you do will round out the rest. Once admitted, for placement in some classes (esp maths and languages) if you don’t have useful standardized test scores there are placement tests.
What country do you live in?
What colleges are you applying to?
For some colleges, you do have to spell it out. If your 4th year math course includes Calculus 2, Statistics, and Programming/Discrete Math, you chck “block scheduling” or “modified block scheduling” and enter each for one trimester or term, + the number of hours per week (say, 7 hours a week).
(It’s a bit like block scheduling in the US.)
Thank you very much :). I’m also worried about the GPA calculation because high schools in my country don’t count it it. It’s usually used for waiving universities admission tests only and the universities count it themselves. They use second sementer of each year and the first semester of the last year. Should my high school counselor explain it somehow? The thing is that there is probably no official policy and I fear that US universities will count my first semesters as well which would significantly lower my GPA. I didn’t care about it before because it’s useless in my country.
What country do you live in ? The way things are handled depend on your school system.