<p>I heard this and I wanted to know if that was true. Apparently Ivy Leagues allowed some international to skip past a few years in their degree courses because the course content of the fist years was already covered back in their home countries. I think this happened to a girl in the UK. The newspapers were really mad at Cambridge because they had rejected her, she had 5 As at A Levels, that's like Amazing!but then she got accepted by Harvard, and they allowed her to skip a few years in her course because she had already covered all of that? Just wanted to know if that happened to anyone else?</p>
<p>If you have five As in your A-levels, you might be able to skip a course or two or get credit - it is up to each institution how they do it. It usually wouldn't mass up to a full year though - at most around a semester and a half.</p>
<p>Here is the conversion table for Penn:
<a href="http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/applying/a-level.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/applying/a-level.php</a></p>
<p>if you take four A-Levels and score As in all of them, you're given up to one year of advanced standing.</p>