<p>I'm an American student and I'm considering
graduating early (junior year)
going to an international school
and then transferring to Cambridge or Oxford. </p>
<p>How does this sound? Is this feasible/a good idea?</p>
<p>There is no real concept of transfer in the UK. You would have to apply to start in the first year. The only exception is if you complete a BA elsewhere. You could then in theory apply for a second BA, and begin in the second year. However, such students are quite rare. By that stage most people are appling to grad school.</p>
<p>It’s quite common for US applicants to have completed a year at a US college before attending university in the UK. So this maybe why you might have been advised to try this route. But it is not a transfer application. There is no such thing.</p>
<p>When you refer to graduating early, are you talking about graduating from high school or university? </p>
<p>This international school - is that a high school or university? What would you be studying there? At what level? IB? A Level? Bachelors? </p>
<p>What would you be aiming to study at Oxbridge? Bachelors? Masters?</p>
<p>You may be aware that when you finish high school you’re roughly a year behind the UK anyway. UK students are allowed to skip the first year of numerous US and Scottish colleges due to A-levels being roughly equivalent to that year.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be a bad idea then to do first year US and then transfer to first year UK.</p>
<p>Although some UK unis are happy to let you transfer into later years, Oxbridge certainly won’t even think of allowing it - their first year courses are more rigorous than a first year anywhere else.</p>