<p>Good afternoon / evening to all ;)</p>
<p>I still two years to get my baccalaureate degree and I'll get TOEFL next year. I want to continue my studies in a business school in United States (I am a hardworker) but for now I have not found a school that accepts french baccalaureate. Can you help me please ?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>You need to read through the information at [EducationUSA</a> | Study Abroad, Student Visa, University Fairs, College Applications and Study in the U.S. / America](<a href=“http://www.educationusa.info/]EducationUSA”>http://www.educationusa.info/) Then you should contact the advising center in Paris: [EducationUSA</a> - Center Profile - Centre EducationUSA, Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange](<a href=“http://www.educationusa.info/Fulbright-France]EducationUSA”>http://www.educationusa.info/Fulbright-France) The counselors there can help you find good places to study in the US. I do not know of any college or university here that does not accept students who have the French Bac.</p>
<p>Keep in mind also that the better business schools in the U.S. require 3-5 years of work experience in addition to a baccalaureate degree.</p>
<p>The French bac is a secondary school degree. “Business schools” of the type lynx is describing are graduate programs. </p>
<p>I’m sure that any good university with an undergraduate business degree in the US–such as Penn, just to name one–is familiar with the bac and would be happy to enroll a good student who had one. If your goal is to go to “business school” in the US and get an MBA, you will need to get an undergraduate degree first, and probably have some work experience, as lynx suggests. Many, if not most, of the best undergraduate schools in the US do not have “business” as an undergraduate major. People whose long term goal is an MBA often major in economics, although really you can major in anything.</p>
<p>Why don’t you apply to HEC? Can you afford to pay for an undergrad degree is the US?</p>
<p>Yes I can pay, in fact I prefer an undergraduate degree in the States than apply to HEC. You know some universities that can admit me ?</p>
<p>Soufian, how are your grades? How did you do on the brevet and in 2nde? </p>
<p>I assume you are in 1ere? Are you bac s, es or lit? </p>
<p>Do you have financial restrictions? </p>
<p>Have you done, or intend to do, the SAT? Most good US universities require the SAT and some also require the SAT 2.</p>
<p>US universities could care less about the French bac exam. They require the SAT or ACT exam scores, at least once. </p>
<p>You need to determine how you would pay for this as you are not eligible for US Government student loans, but perhaps a Fulbright Scholarship if you are in the elite score range. </p>
<p>Undergraduate studies in the United States are very different than in France. French universities are mostly large, public, urban and very bureaucratic with zero athletics and social life. In fact, few have a “campus” like US colleges and most resemble the NYU model. (NYU is private and very expensive, however.) US colleges are often bucolic, on large green campuses, with many buildings, dorms, athletic facilities, a huge social life. Further, most colleges have a core curriculum and emphasize a broad based liberal arts for the first year, if not two. French schools tend to be stovepipes and not broad based. Its a night and day experience. I studied for one full year (12 months) in France during my undergraduate years many decades ago. </p>
<p>Also, don’t be confused by the word “college”. We use the Oxford term, whereas in Continental Europe (France, Germany etc.) the world “college” is something less than a university. The word “college” in the United States is a reference to the size of the school and often whether it has graduate (Master’s and Phd) programs in sufficient number to warrant a title of “university”, but has NO BEARING on the quality of education whatsoever. Many very prestigious schools have the moniker college, i.e. Dartmouth College.</p>
<p>Bonne Chance!</p>