<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I am a non-US student, who is attending an international school outside the country. Here, students follow the a 2-year IGCSE curriculum developed by the Cambridge Exam Board. I am currently in year 11 (equivalent to the 10th grade in the American system), and I am taking the IGCSE exams in one month.</p>
<p>Here is my situation:</p>
<p>Earlier this year, I applied to US private boarding schools and have been accepted to The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey as a REPEAT SOPHOMORE. This means I am doing the 10th grade all over again, and I am definitely planning to attend a college in the USA.</p>
<p>MY QUESTION: Since I'll be repeating a grade anyway, are these IGCSE exams I'll be taking important at all? Come senior year, I will be taking the AP exams and SATs, and I am sure that the top American colleges/universities/LACs will weight the APs and SATs more heavily than the IGCSEs, correct? I suspect that my IGCSE results will hold greater importance were I going to be applying to Oxbridge, but I don't see myself going to the U.K to study uni at all. </p>
<p>I also think that the APs are more rigorous than the IGCSEs (APs are equivalent to the IB or A-levels, which are higher than the IGCSEs in the British system), so if I get 4s and 5s on my APs, it doesn't matter then what my IGCSE grades are, am I right? </p>
<p>tl;dr - what's the point of taking the IGCSE exams when I will be repeating my current grade in an American private school AND will be taking the APs and the SATs in three years time? Or is it that the more qualifications, the better?</p>
<p>Thank you for reading :P</p>
10ch</p>