Hello all,
I hope you all are okay during these days.
My question is kind of weird to understand, but I’ll give it a try:
I live in Europe and moved from country1 to country2
I am planning to study in the USA (Next year.)
But my GPA is really bad because I don’t speak the XX language so well.
What happens in this kind of cases?
Will the Universities in the USA accept my SAT and TOEFL or is the GPA also required?
I hope, I am not in the wrong topic section. I couldn’t find the GPA section.
Sorry
Well, you can’t automatically attend a university in the US; you have to find a university that will accept you.
Part of the problem is that they use your statistics to accept or deny you. If your GPA is not good, you wont be admitted.
Chances are very high the SAT, TOEFL and GPA will ALL be required. You may have heard of some colleges waiving the SAT (“test optional” colleges), but out of those, few will waive it for international applicants.
The TOEFL might be be waived if you’re graduating in Great Britain or if all your high school’s classes are conducted in English.
There is no way to hide that GPA, although you may find that it converts to the US system differently than you expect.
But will they understand that there is a reason behind it? I don’t know the language of country2 properly.
What if I get a perfect score in all SAT’s that I am going to take.
If your gpa is lower than it would otherwise be because you are studying in a new language, your counselor should note that in his/her letter of recommendation as a mitigating circumstance. Was your gpa in your home country significantly higher?
A very good SAT score will help offset that but it will not be the only thing colleges look at. You won’t be able to just not submit GPA.
Another problem is: country1 isn’t my home country. I moved there because there was war in my home country.
In my home country, I didn’t attend school
Can you afford to go to a US university?
Yes
Yes, it is a good idea to have your guidance counselor explain the circumstances behind your GPS rather than you do it yourself. However, whether this helps you or not probably depends on the particular college (or type of college) you are applying to.
There are 2,500+ colleges in the USA, and many would be happy to give you a chance (financial aid being another issue). However, if you are like most international applicants, and only want to apply to (or attend) the top 30 or so… I would expect those admissions officers are not going to be wide open to any reason for a sub-par GPA, including a seemingly valid one such as yours. Not that they aren’t sympathetic people, but their pool is so large, there is no need for them to take risks. There are thousands upon thousands of applicants from all over the globe, with solid records and little chance that they wouldn’t perform well at their tippy top university. It might take a very high level award or extremely desirable extracurricular resume that is a match to what they are looking for to keep you playing in their league.
Have you taken the SAT or TOEFL tests yet? If so, what are your scores?
In addition to the US, you should research potential colleges in the EU and UK.
My main goal is to attend Ivy League.
Main reason behind it is that I am a soccer player and I want to show my abilities to the other side of the world. And I love to learn and especially with the smartest students.
If you want to play soccer in a US college, you have to contact the coaches. Are you a junior right now? What level soccer do you play in the EU?
Email the head and assistant coaches at the schools you are interested in, and also fill out their online recruiting questionnaires. But, if you do not yet have an SAT test, your inquiries won’t go far…especially given a low GPA. What is your GPA?
You will need to cast a wide net, and note that the best US college soccer teams are not in the Ivy League.
Thanks! I’ll contact them soon.
I am a defender, hungry for the ball and I would like to be a captain. What bothers me the most is watching soccer matches of the Ivy League. They aren’t bad, but they do a lot of things wrong.
Defending style, for example, the attack the players over the ball, which I don’t understand at all. Honestly I got headaches.
(I apologize for my disrespectful way of speaking.)
So will it be possible to attend with perfect SAT and bad GPA?
I don’t have enough information to give you feedback on that question.
What is your GPA?
What level of soccer do you play? Do players from your club go on to play in the US with any regularity?
Unlikely that you will be admitted to any of the 8 Ivy League schools with a poor GPA despite superior skills at soccer.
There are well over 3,500 four year degree granting colleges & universities in the US.
Collegiate athletics in the US is separated into divisions. The main divisions are:
Division 1 = typically the best players. D1 universities can award athletic scholarships.
D2 & D3 are the other main schools.
You need to google a list of Dividion 1 soccer schools in the US.
You can earn an outstanding education at any of several hundred US colleges & universities.
What do you want to study ? Any career goals ?
An alternative path to attending an elite college or university in the US would be to spend a year as a PG (post graduate) student at a boarding prep high school in the US such as Phillips Academy at Andover, Phillips Exeter Academy, deerfield Academy, the Lawrenceville School, Choate Rosemary Hall, and several others.
I didn’t got my overall GPA score yet and I can’t convert my country’s GPA to US.
I played 6 years in an unprofessional club, than left and still feeling quite okay, soccer isn’t hard to learn. I can recover and boost myself in a month time.
In my country where I live, and lived before, there are approximately 10 league devisions.
I played between devision 5 and 2.
It is important to understand that, while soccer is among the most popular sports in the USA, it is not a revenue sport for collegiate athletics. Therefore, although soccer talent may help in the college & university admissions process, even D1 soccer programs may not offer full tuition & fees scholarships for soccer.
Revenue sports are Division 1 (D1) American football & basketball.
If you can kick an American football accurately over 40 to 55 yards, then you might receive interest from schools as a kicker (or place-kicker) on the football team.
Which language or languages do you speak, read & write fluently ? Or proficiently ?
With which language do you struggle to speak, read or write well ?
Most importantly, what do you want to study ?
How old are you ?
OP wrote that “I am planning to study in the USA next year.” Do you understand that you will need a student visa & proof of adequate funds to support yourself & your studies in the US ?
I speak Dutch, German, Kurdish and English.
Dutch fluently.
I know the German grammar and every basic meaning and my writing skills are fine.
I can only speak Kurdish (Mother language).
I am considering to take a latin course in my school. I find it an interesting language.
German is hard for me. Not because I have difficulty problems. But the reason is: German system high schools are devided in 4 levels., “Gymnasium” is the one that I attend and it provides advanced secondary education and it’s mainly meant for those who are ‘smart’. I’m a little behind because my classmates understand more. They understand the language better than me, after all they grew up here.
I want to study Computer Science(Artificial Intelligence direction.)
I am 17 year old.