WES IGCSE evaluation

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Anyone knows what IGCSE is evaluated into by WES (World Education Services) into US equivalency?

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Anyone who might know plz help me

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Typically, full icgse =9+10th grades

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Many organizations consider the IGCSE (as well as the UK version) equivalent to a high school diploma, including the [url=<a href=“http://www.eiupanthers.com/custompages/Compliance%20Forms/PSA/International%20Standards%20Guide.pdf%5DNCAA%5B/url”>http://www.eiupanthers.com/custompages/Compliance%20Forms/PSA/International%20Standards%20Guide.pdf]NCAA[/url] (college sports league), the [url=<a href=“http://www.playnaia.org/d/international/International_Documents_Required_By_Country.pdf%5DNAIA%5B/url”>http://www.playnaia.org/d/international/International_Documents_Required_By_Country.pdf]NAIA[/url] (another college sports league), and [url=<a href=“http://ierf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IERFEvaluationMethodology.pdf%5DIERF%5B/url”>http://ierf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IERFEvaluationMethodology.pdf]IERF[/url] (another credential evaluation agency).

WES themselves published [url=<a href=“http://wenr.wes.org/2014/02/a-guide-to-uk-school-qualifications-offered-internationally/%5Dthis%5B/url”>http://wenr.wes.org/2014/02/a-guide-to-uk-school-qualifications-offered-internationally/]this[/url] about UK credentials offered internationally. While the document does not explicitly suggest a US equivalence of the IGCSE, it does state that they recommend college credit for each international AS and A-level result. Since they recommend college credit for anything above the ICGSE, it stands to reason that they consider the ICGSE equivalent to a US high school diploma.

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AS and A Levels are post-ICGSE.
IGCSE (as explained in your link actually) prepare for A Levels. It’s the 14- to 16 curriculum.
Some universities accept applicants with 8-10 C-A* IGCSE grades, but most competitive colleges want to see 4+AS level results + 3 A Levels (4 if one is Higher Math/Pure Math).
What provides credit is NOT IGCSE but IGCE/GCE/ALevels.

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I understand that A-levels are two years on top of the GCSE (or IGCSE). Since WES recommends college credit for AS- and A-Levels, doesn’t that suggest that they consider the IGCSE equivalent to high school?

FWIW, I know that WES evaluates the 10th grade credential from Germany (“Mittlere Reife”) to a high school diploma. The additional two years of high school required to enter a university in Germany (“Abitur”) get evaluated to one year of college credit. That seems strikingly similar to the British system and I would expect the WES evaluations to be similar as well.

To be absolutely clear: I do not know if WES will actually evaluate OP’s IGCSE as equivalent to a high school diploma. I am merely making an educated guess to help ease the OP’s fears until he gets his real evaluation results.

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Thank u so much for the reassuring answers @b@r!um. I feel somewhat relieved for now. Thanks for sparing ur time to gather all that information for my sake sir/mam. God bless u.

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Hey, JustinPon. The IGCSE is equivalent to the U.S.high school diploma. I am an international student and I did the IGCSE. I got accepted to 4 schools, all with scholarship with only IGCSE and nothing else. Don’t worry, IGCSE alone is sufficient to get you into universities in the U.S.
Best of luck!

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Thanks so much for confirming @loveforbooks Best of the best of luck for ur future too mate.

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Thanks so much for confirming @loveforbooks Best of the best of luck for ur future too mate.

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Has anyone experienced the disappearance of the estimated completion date? The status is still ‘evaluation in progress’ and the documents are still marked as ‘accepted’. Any clues pls?