Hi,
I’ve been looking at some requirements, such as that of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I’ve noticed that some schools require 3+ years of English. From grade 9/year 10, I’ve only taken 2 years of English language and English literature for my IGCSEs. I haven’t taken English lit for my A-levels because that isn’t specific to my course.
How will they look at my application?
Thanks
As they would for any international student: in the context of your home country. The UK system of specialization is well known and understood at most US universities.
Agreed. A college’s recommended HS preparation is not meant to cover each and every case. Yours is a perfectly valid reason of where it would not apply.
They’ll check you took IGCSE’s in English, math, science, foreign language, and history (plus a couple others). They know about the specialty system for A levels.
I haven’t taken social sciences either!
I’m wondering if taking an AP course online would be sufficient.
What IGCSE’s have you taken? What results?
I took maths, physics, chemistry, biology, PE, Spanish, Computer science, English lit, English lang and got 5A*, 3A, and 1 B
No History? Geography? Economics? Sociology?
Nope. We only got to choose 3 optional subjects and I didn’t!
Do you know if taking an online AP course for history on a website like http://webreg.ucscout.orgwebreg.ucscout.org/ would be sufficient?