I am currently in 3rd year pursuing Diploma in Electrical Engineering from CTEVT Board, Nepal. I studied Diploma immediately after Secondary Education (Class 10) because I am extremely passionate about the subject. Academically I have thrived in the subject and I am engaged in research, entrepreneurship and student politics (and have done extremely well as per conventional metrics) that are heavily interrelated with my subject. I wanted to pursue my undergraduate degree in the United States and most importantly in colleges that values what I am interested in. How will my high school course be evaluated in MIT, CALTECH, GTECH, STANFORD, HARVARD? My course satisfy the requirement of subject that above mentioned colleges have stated in their websites (3 years of math, Physics, English) but the course I am studying is heavily technical and core related to electrical engineering which are absolutely similar to college level coursework because of which I am in dilemma, whether it will affect my academic eligibility or not?
Are you attending a secondary school? What in America would be called “high school” (approximately grade 9-12) ? If so, your college level courses would still count as secondary school courses.
If you are at a post-secondary school, you would apply as an international transfer student. Many of the schools you listed take very, very few transfer students (like, fewer than 10, in some cases.) You can imagine what the odds of getting in are. Slim.
As an international student your competition is other international students. At those schools, the top students from their countries try to get in. Most of these schools limit their international students (sometimes as low as 10% or less) so it’s very, very difficult to get in.
For this reason, you must have a back up plan at home. Applying to elite American universities is a bit like playing the lottery.
As katliamom said, the most important question is whether colleges would classify you as a freshman or transfer applicant.
If your diploma counts as secondary school, you would meet the admission requirements for the universities on your list. For example, Caltech requires high school calculus for admission and MIT strongly recommends it. I looked at the CTEVT Electrical Engineering curriculum and calculus appears to be taught in Engineering Mathematics II, the highest math course in the program?
Don’t worry about being over-qualified for admission. It’s quite common for high-achieving American students to take a number of college classes in high school. American universities will often allow students to place out of courses that are mostly identical to courses that a student has already taken, and take a more advanced course in its place. You may also find that some courses with identical titles will have a different content at MIT than they did in your program, and you may find it worthwhile to “retake” them.
On the flip side, if your diploma program counts as post-secondary, that would make you a transfer applicant. You’d probably be under-qualified as a transfer applicant at highly selective technical universities like MIT or Caltech.
If I were you, I would reach out to the admissions offices at the universities you are interested in and confirm that you still qualify to apply as a first-year applicant.
I reached to MIT admissions asking the same question but the answer was vague. In order to be qualified for transfer applicant I should have at least an college education (asking recommendations from professors) which doesn’t match my circumstance. Diploma level after class 10 is considered equivalent to high school (Class 12) in Nepal. So, Am I a freshman applicant?
Ask the International Admissions Office at each of the places you want to apply to. They have had applicants from Nepal before, and can tell you what your education is equivalent to.