<p>First of all, congratulations MIT class of 2018! You guys are awesome! A friend of mine was accepted too, he is an amazing student and I've always looked up to him. He is the first one to get in MIT in my high school's history (and I would love to be the second one, class of 2019!), and maximum 15 people ever got into MIT from this country. I feel so happy even if I was not the one that got in!</p>
<p>Anyway, back to my question. In my high school we do not have AP courses. We have IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) for freshmen and sophomores and the IB diploma in junior and senior year. I was googling a template transcript for british schools and this is the best i've got:<br>
<a href="http://www.harvard-ukadmissions.co.uk/uploads/files/School%20transcript%20Profile.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.harvard-ukadmissions.co.uk/uploads/files/School%20transcript%20Profile.pdf</a>
(change GCSE with IGCSE and A-levels with IB)
However, this is for Harvard. Is it possible to use the same template for MIT and other universities? Also, is there a conversion scale from IGCSE/IB grades to GPA? If there is not one, could you tell me which IGCSE grades/IB points would make a competitive application?</p>
<p>No worries – MIT is very familiar with various international systems of grading and coursework, and they’ll be able to understand whatever format your school sends transcripts in without much explanation.</p>
<p>MIT needs to understand the context in which to evaluate any application. For example, suppose an applicant is applying and indicates that he/she has won the Zambian medal in mathematics. That’s great, but does that go to the top mathematics student in the country, the top in each region, the top in each school, the top quarter of the students in the country, or is it a participation medal that goes to every student who has taken a mathematics subject in secondary school.</p>
<p>So when you ask if you can use some variant of the Harvard Standard Transcript (<a href=“http://www.harvard-ukadmissions.co.uk/uploads/files/School%20transcript%20Profile.pdf[/url]”>www.harvard-ukadmissions.co.uk/uploads/files/School%20transcript%20Profile.pdf</a>)
then the answer is yes. The school profile there gives the university the ability to understand how to interpret your achievements. That holds true for Harvard, for MIT, and for the University of New York. Every school that admits holistically needs the same thing.</p>
<p>Completely Off Topic, there is of course, no University of New York. There is the State University of New York system (SUNY - [suny.edu</a> - The State University of New York](<a href=“http://www.suny.edu/]suny.edu”>http://www.suny.edu/)), the City University of New York system (CUNY - [Welcome</a> to CUNY - The City University of New York](<a href=“http://www.cuny.edu/index.html]Welcome”>The City University of New York)), there’s New York University (<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/[/url]”>http://www.nyu.edu/</a>) and there’s even the University of New York in Prague ([University</a> of New York in Prague - UNYP.cz](<a href=“http://www.unyp.cz/]University”>http://www.unyp.cz/)) but no University of New York itself. That fact makes it show up a lot in television shows set in New York City that need a fictitious university. I have seen several different crime dramas in the last two weeks, that featured the University of New York. For example, it is Detective Javier Esposito’s alma mater on Castle.</p>