I’m currently a U.S citizen in India and in 11th and 12th grade you can chose to drop math and science subjects which I’m surely going to do and focus on humanities subjects . My sat scores on practice tests are well but I really don’t know how colleges are going to evaluate my transcript if I don’t take any math . Help need .
You need to meet the course requirements for the colleges, you plan to apply. Many colleges want to see 4 years of Math taken in HS.
@Gumbymom But I have heard that students who do not meet the requirements are given admission provided they take a course of math or science in college . Is this true ?
@Procrastinator45 that may vary by college or department, but generally requirements are requirements. Note that many schools have “recommended” HS coursework instead.
What is the highest level math or science course you have completed?
I think if you have the opportunity to take math and science but choose not to, colleges will evaluate your transcript in that context. Why would they choose a student who doesn’t meet their basic admission requirements over one who does?
@MITer94 Under CBSE the highest courseload for maths is applications and proofs of trigonometry . It gets advanced in 11th grade and calculus in 12th . As for Science I’m not sure , but what I do know it is much much more rigorous than what is taught in high schools. Also when I browse through college admissions pages , they tell me that only students who were educated in the united states have to comply ?
Except when they are not.
Requirements/recommendations listed on a college website are instead to cover the vast majority of, but by no stretch of the imagination all, applicants. Most people responding here are only familiar with US HS’s.
If you are studying at a school that follows the British system, or something similar, where the student studies ~3 subjects in depth for 2 years, then there will be no expectation from most colleges that you would need to adhere to their “requirements.” So, to the original poster, you’d most likely be fine. Having said that, if you are intending to apply to an engineering school, or a STEM major within a university, then math/science in your final years of HS would be needed regardless of your educational system.