<p>Hi all, I'm just wondering, for those taking A levels, we have to submit our preliminary exam transcript and our predicted grades right? (Due to the late release of results in march we will not get the official transcripts in time to apply for, say, fall 2014) however, what happens if you screw up your prelim exams? My results haven't been consistent throughout junior college but I got a pretty good score for my O levels and had consistently got top 5% in secondary school. I also got around 1800++ for my SATs but I'm retaking it in November to Aim for a better score! There's still time left to really study for the actual A levels but this prelim transcript thing is really worrying me!</p>
<p>Can anyone please help? Does all colleges need prelim transcripts? I have plans to move to the states in future and I was told that the college I go to will affect future job opportunities!</p>
<p>" Does all colleges need prelim transcripts?"</p>
<p>Email each of the colleges/universities that you are applying to, and ask them what they want you to do. Do not be surprised if each one gives you different instructions.</p>
<p>" I have plans to move to the states in future and I was told that the college I go to will affect future job opportunities!"</p>
<p>When, and how do you plan to move here? It is very difficult for international students to find work visa sponsors after completing their educations. The only cases I have ever heard of where an undergraduate degree was sufficient for that, were cases of students who studied engineering or computer science. Everyone else I know who has found a work visa sponsor has had a full Ph.D. and multiple years of research and work experience both in their home countries and as visiting scientists in the US.</p>
<p>The college that you graduate from will have less effect on future job opportunities than what YOU have done in college.</p>
<p>Hi thanks for the reply! I’ll try and email the colleges individually then! Up till now I’m aware that certain colleges only need 3 subjects but others need all 5. I also know that it is EXTREMELY difficult to even get a work visa for international students so I’m prepared to return to my home country to work first and I’d have to see how it goes. But just out of curiosity though, people may say that the college you graduate from matters less than what you’ve done but are there still preferences? I’m actually thinking of majoring in either business or nutrition and I know these are “popular” majors and competition is tough.</p>
<p>Whether your university matters depends largely on your goals. For example, if you wanted to get into consulting or finance, your university would matter A LOT (you’d want to attend an Ivy or another university in the same selectivity bracket). On the other hand, if you are shooting for an average accounting or human resources job, a business degree from most universities would do. </p>
<p>That being said, happymomof1 made an important point that you’ll have a hard time getting a work permit in the US. You could try to marry a US citizen while in college and get a green card that way. If you want to go the work visa route, be aware that you’ll probably need an advanced degree or several years of specialized work experience before an employer would go through the trouble of sponsoring a visa for you. </p>
<p>That all being said, I’d encourage you to choose a major and a university that would be useful to you in the likely event that you’ll have to return home after college. For example, accounting procedures and business laws are quite different in the US and in the UK, so a degree from one country may be less useful in the other one. Or, if you’d need a license to work as a nutritionist in the UK, find out if a foreign degree would make you eligible for that license.</p>
<p>When you go to apply for your student visa, if the officer who conducts the interview believes that you do not intend to return home after your studies, you will not get your visa.</p>
<p>" Does all colleges need prelim transcripts?"</p>
<p>not all universities are all the same, some universities allow the prelim transcripts to be follow and others no admmision if you don’t have the trancripts</p>
<p>By the way, guys, I graduated from the high school a couple of years ago, and this school is currently closed due to absence of adequate number of students. Moreover, in my country there is no such thing as transcript. I want to go to college in USA, how can I get damn transcript and reccomendations, stamped with the stamp of the school that no longer exists? The faculty that I want to write my reccomendations is already retired and no longer has access to the school’s stamp. Though, I have HS diploma on hand, with the school’s stamp on it, and ****ty grades. What should I do?</p>
<p>SOMEONE in your country has your school records. Contact whatever city government deals with schools, and tell them you need an official record of your attendance, degree, and grades. I’m sure these things exist, you may just have to dig for them. Letters of recommendation may be harder if you can’t contact any of your old teachers. (But that would be your best bet. If they liked you, they will write the letter. You can try to have it notarized, that may solve the stamp issue.) If you don’t have a teacher recommendation, you may have to go to someone else. What have you been doing since you left high school? Certainly you haven’t been locked up in your room with no access to people right? Do you work? If so, you may have to have your boss write a letter. Have you been involved in your community in any way? Can you contact those people? Are you involved in any clubs whose leaders could write you a letter? If the answer to these questions is “no” then you’ll have to explain your lack of human interaction in your essay. Will it be a disadvantage? Probably. But unfortunately that’s the reality of trying to study in America: for foreigners without money, it’s very, very, VERY tough. And if your grades are bad, as you imply, it may be impossible.</p>
<p>You don’t say where you live, but if you’re in the EU, I think UK or Ireland are much more reasonable options than the US.</p>
<p>katliamom, thx for your advice. Unfortunately i’m not from EU, but for me almost everything would be an option if there I can get a decent aducation in English. Money–that’s my problem number one. By the way, don’t you think that if I had shown show good SAT scores, like 2100+, the colleges in USA would have taken a mild view of my grades at least partially? I would write a letter that I was from unfavourable family and had a huge adversities that prevented me from studying decently… Still won’t work?</p>
<p>I am another applicant from the EU and I was wondering that if I will not be requiring any form of financial aid, will I stand a better chance in the admissions process to these need aware colleges? I feel bad for trying to use this privilege to get in but I also have high SAT scores, national exam grades, and strong ECs.</p>