<p>I am 16 year old IGCSE student(will be 17 ,October 2011),I will writing my IGCSE exams in 2012 June. I wanted to ask if I will be able to apply for Business administration or similar without doing my A levels in a good US university. I am also sure I will be getting As or A*s for more of the exams for my IGCSE exams.I will be giving my SAT in October and am confident of a score in the 1500-2400 range. I am also sure I will have a GPA of more than 3.5(4 scale) for my IGCSE exams.</p>
<p>I have work experience of working 2.5 weeks as a trainee in the finance department of a company.</p>
<p>I have been the vice-president of a company our school made for a competition called INJAZ.We came second.</p>
<p>I have been heavily involved in sports and have won Man of the tournament award for cricket, and have lead a football team to the finals of a local tournament.</p>
<p>I have also won the National Art Olympiad in the country of Kuwait, I was gifted a laptop. I have won several art competitions too.</p>
<p>Can you please tell me, if its fine to apply if you IGCSE certificate and not A levels?
Also how important are SAT scores for an international student?</p>
<p>Since you are an international student SATs would be more or less mandatory for you since it could help to “Standardize” your application. SAT scores are dependent on what schools you are aiming for. Select your choice of universities and see their SAT score range and try to bring your own scores to that rage.</p>
<p>US universities have no minimum requirement for O or A levels like UK or Canada. But since A levels are the final exams which you sit for in school, this means if you don’t give A Levels your school transcripts wont be complete. So you have to sit for them.</p>
<p>Also since you want to go to a good US university most of the international students would have A Levels or parallel courses in IB Abitur etc so lack of them surely is going to be a disadvantage to you.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the replies.
I am not sure if I will get all A/A*'s in IGCSE yet because I will be taking my IG’s in 2012.
3.5 will be the least I will get,but am sure I will have a 3.75 or 4 GPA.
Oh,so that means if I have a good SAT score I can apply.</p>
<p>I advise you not to be so sure of anything and to study with the aim of getting the highest gpa possible. This requires practicing for the SAT and maybe also you will need to take SAT II (SAT subject tests) as well if the college you aiming for requires them.</p>
<p>The first step is to select which universities in the USA you are plan to apply to. Then check the application requirements for each of these universities (international Student Admission Requirements). </p>
<p>I think you will need to take the A levels but you should confirm that with an admissions counsellor.</p>
<p>Guys please help me with this also. I have a GPA about 3.6 in school, but it is a hard curriculum. I have taken all the exams possible and my IGCSE GPA=4.0 (3A*s and 3As).</p>
<p>Will colleges take IGCSEs as my GPA?
I have a SAT 2050. I know it isn’t that great, but it is for my case, a Kurd who has lived in both Iran and Iraq and the hard life I underwent as my essays portray that</p>
<p>Very few universities will consider you if you ONLY finish IGCSEs. I remember researching this once, at your stage, and only found a few (not so selective) universities that were willing to consider applicants without A-Levels.</p>
<p>^Select USA, and tick all IGCSE boxes. These are the universities that deem IGCSEs as meeting the entry criteria. Other unis need A-Levels/IB/Pre-U or some other post-16 qual.</p>
<p>Not many universities will accept you with just the iGCSE’s you will need to complete your A Levels, Diploma or your countries equivelent. Yes your SAT scores are important but so are you leaving exam grades. For an international student to be accepted into a college their grades need to be above average according to many websites.</p>
<p>I’m submitting my IGCSE scores, but only the ones I have A’s in. Most of them, but not all.
I suggest you submit them but try to go farther than that, 'cause IGCSE only takes freshman and sophomore year (at least for me it did). So look for other qualifications, and try to get a 2100+ for highly selective schools.</p>
<p>Colleges just don’t want the ones that you got A’s in they also want the ones you may have got B’s in or even C’s or D’s, if you’re sending them straight from the exam board they will more than likely send all of your certifcates for you. Many colleges don’t allow copies that you send them and want originals from the exam board which can turn out to be quite expensive.</p>
<p>My counselor will send all certificates in original that my school has, I haven’t gotten them personally. My headmaster said to only send the ones I had A’s in, and that’s what people have done in past years. I’m not worried if I send them all, but I got a D or E, I don’t remember, in my Music exam (very delicate subject, I was really annoyed with my teacher, who didn’t follow the syllabus, gave us incorrect instructions, and 30 minutes before the exam told us to ‘Google’– and I quote– some information she hadn’t taught us.) Is this information I can explain to colleges? If so, where can I put that in my CommonApp?</p>