<p>You have been given ENDLESS advice! Pages and pages of it. But every single thing you question and decide that isn’t correct. Fine, but why are you asking if you already know?</p>
<p>The main point, repreated again and again on several threads, is that you appear to be in an unusual situation so you need to ask the specific schools you are interested in. However, it appears that you may have already done that, but for some reason you don’t believe them (or they don’t give you the answers you want)? So you have decided on the admissions requirements yourself? I don’t really understand the point.</p>