Have not fulfilled the UC's A-G requirements? Should I bother applying?

[MYOS1634]

<p>Truust, you need to read the requirements very carefully. They’re different for Internationals and for American students. In addition, you should email the international admissions representative for EACH campus you’re applying to.
Re: US history - does not apply to International students. In the same way, “English” is replaced by “Native language/literature” and “Foreign Language” becomes “English”.</p>

[Truust]

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This is really who you need to direct this question too. </p>

<p>International admission contacts | UC Admissions</p>

<p>They are the only one who can really give you answers in regards to international admissions. The solutions most of us can offer are specific to options typically available in the states.

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<p>Thanks, the last email I sent to the UC admissions office got a generic reply restating everything that’s said required on one of their webpages. I’ll try contacting them via your link.</p>

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The book is 800+ pages long. Unless you have a lot of free time on your hands, and/or have taken AP Euro/World, methinks that this would be a difficult course to study for.

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<p>Yeah, there’s no way I can do that; I’m already struggling with applications & my current year courses as it is. I’ll just see if I can get through without the fine arts requirement I guess.</p>

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Truust, you need to read the requirements very carefully. They’re different for Internationals and for American students. In addition, you should email the international admissions representative for EACH campus you’re applying to.
Re: US history - does not apply to International students. In the same way, “English” is replaced by “Native language/literature” and “Foreign Language” becomes “English”.

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<p>I can’t find that information online, can you provide a link please? However, I did find this (after you mentioned that international requirements are different):
[|</a> UC Admissions](<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/international/applying-for-admission/index.html]|”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/international/applying-for-admission/index.html)</p>

<p>^ There is no mention of the A-G requirements there. Does that mean intl students do NOT require it?</p>

<p>On the other hand, [url=<a href=“http://admissions.berkeley.edu/internationalstudents]this[/url”>International Students - Office of Undergraduate Admissions]this[/url</a>] link says:

You are an international applicant if a visa is required to reside and study in the United States. A U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee or asylee who currently lives and studies outside the U.S. is considered a domestic applicant with foreign credentials.

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<p>…which means that the intl requirements don’t apply to me since i’m just a citizen living abroad.</p>

[MYOS1634]

<p>No, it means “with foreign credentials”. Email admissions and international admissions, referring to their previous email (I got your email from 11.17, but my question is more precise since I am an American citizen who lives abroad and therefore has not attended an American high school. What is the situation for a-g requirements with regards to foreign credentials?)
However I’m afraid they may require “national history” for the country you’re living in, in replacement of American history, and that may trip you up if you haven’t taken any history since 8th grade (did I understand this correctly?). :s</p>

[cptofthehouse]

<p>Just find an online college course that will fit the bill.</p>

[ucbalumnus]

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@Truust

Also I find it hard to believe that students like me applying from abroad take US history to fulfill requirement A.

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<p>Students in the US commonly take European or other non-US history courses in high school. Presumably, an analogous situation exists outside the US. In IB curricula, there is a [history</a> of the Americas course and exam](<a href=“http://www.ibo.org/recognition/resourcesanddocumentlibrary/moreresources/documents/HLHistoryBrief2.0.pdf]history”>http://www.ibo.org/recognition/resourcesanddocumentlibrary/moreresources/documents/HLHistoryBrief2.0.pdf), where a sufficiently high score is counted as fulfilling the (a) requirement by UC/CSU.</p>

[Truust]

<p>@MYOS, I emailed them back and am waiting for a reply. Yeah… I don’t have national history either so I guess that’s a problem.</p>

<p>@cpt, I’m not sure what would count for credit and what wouldnt… And where to look for one.</p>

<p>@ucbalumnus, while its true that American history courses ARE offered outside the US, I think it’s rare (at least in my country) for anyone to take the course. I can guarantee that not one student in my highschool has this year or the last - and probably hasn’t in the entire time this school has existed. Even students in my region who plan to major in history in an American university end up taking just IB history rather than something directly specific to the US. </p>

<p>I also checked with a couple students who got into Berkeley/LA from last year today and they told me that they had not either although this is just anecdotal evidence so Im still unsure of whether or not it’s required.</p>

[Truust]

<p>Okay, if anyone still wants to know, this is what Berkeley had to say:</p>

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We do not expect any student educated outside the US to have completed US history. The A-G requirements should be followed if possible, but if they are not offered in your school, you cannot be held accountable for them. We understand this as does our specially trained international application reading team. We have many applicants from India, so we have a lot of experience.

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<p>So US History doesn’t need to be taken at all… and the other requirements seem to be guidelines essentially.</p>

<p>The only problem I have now is that my school DOES offer Music. However, I will try to explain that it is not a mandatory course at our school and we are only allowed to choose a certain maximum number of courses per year… so I could not fit it in.
^ If I mentioned this in additional info, would that sound like an empty excuse or is it okay?</p>