<p>can anybody explain or give an accountable reason why universities often require a higher sat or sat II score from international applicants (given that they are NOT from an anglophone country)?? i mean thats just unfair ;)</p>
<p>it’s not unfair. Universities take few international students so they would want the best of the best hehe it’s only normal for them to want internatinal students with really good SAT and SAT2scores</p>
<p>I wasn’t aware of that. Don’t they only want higher scores on math tests?</p>
<p>i dont know, but it seems that for us applicants they have the standard for 700+ in all 3 sections if your extracurriculars are good. and for international its like 750+ which really makes it seem unfair, because internationals did not have the whole secondary education adapted to those standardized tests, and you did right?</p>
<p>I´ll assume you´re talking about the very top colleges based on the SAT scores you mention. All colleges, whether they acknowledge it or not, have a limit as to the number of international students they want to admit. From what I´ve seen in most schools it is around 10%. At the very top well-known universities, the proportion of applications received from foreigners is far greater than that percentage, thus the competition among foreign students is much more intense. No school has a specific cut-off on any applicant for scores. Many U.S. applicants with upper 700s on every section get rejected at these schools in favor of people with lower scores but who have other things to offer, although the higher the scores, the greater the odds of acceptance. Admissions does not work like in most European countries that have completely objective standards and cut-offs. In any case, it would seem that there is an overabundance of highly qualified non-U.S. students so the probabilities are that those chosen, will have very high scores.</p>
<p>It may not seem fair to you that they look separately at the international pool of applicants, but I´ve seen American students complain about foreigners taking up too many spaces in some schools. It´s all in the eyes of the beholder.</p>
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Nope. Our country’s curriculum is the antipode of the US one. lol.</p>