I finished my IGCSEs this summer and received 6A*, due to financial circumstances, my only option is to privately study and do A levels (4 or 5 subjects), moreover, I have to do both AS and A2 in one year, before telling me that it is difficult and all, I don’t have other options
Anyhow, I am just wondering since college admissions are rolling near, will this disadvantage me for top-tier unis like ivys and MIT. because I am doing private there is no way to send predicted grade or anything, all it depends on the grades I get next summer, after the admission choice has been made already
Can’t your tutors look at your work in November or December and see wherher you’re able to get an A or not?
Btw don’t do 5 A2’s. It’s impossible to do well in 5 A2’S, let alone if you’re preparing them in one year. My advice would be to prepare two subjects in one area and one more (say, Maths, Physics, Economics; or Literature, French, Geography).
However you CAN prepare SAT subject tests in your ALevel subjects (should cover the very basics so it wouldn’t be impossible) and you’d need to score 700+/750+. Take them in October or November or December.
I doubt Anyone can review it, my former teachers can recommend me but it wont be possible to review since they are in a geographically different place than me now
I believe what @bopper meant was that you will not get credit for not doing well on an overload. Performing well in 6 classes is much better than just doing OK in 10 classes.
Exactly what @“Erin’s Dad” said…they don’t care if you do an overload, if you don’t do well. they would rather see you do well in a non-overload situation. Because they are comparing you to other students that are not overloading.
oh I it is not like I am doing an overload, 4 is the norm for A levels (said 5 hypocritically, IK bad of me) , and for that doing AS and A2 together, I have no other options due to financing, btw there is no way for them to know If I did well until summer(I know they can still reject me if I did bad ), so how will they take a course in consideration if they don’t know my grades
TL;DR I have no option but to take 4 alevels in 1 year, will this disadvantage me
The people I am considering to write my recommendations is my old (it closed btw) school principal, my old school English teacher and my old school IT teacher (they know me well) , the principal used to be a biology teacher, which is the only subject my recommenders can assess me at, and even if they were to assess me, how credible it would be, If I would look at it, a guy who is no longer at school asking his old principal to assess him, like is that even a thing,admission officers will feel heck alot fishy
What As/A2 are you preparing?
You’ll need a recommendation from your principal. In that letter, s/he should list your IGCSE results and indicate what they’d expect you to get in your ALevels if you continue working at re Evel if achievement you’ve shown so far. That’s all that’d be required.
Ok for these 4 but how will you the experimental part of the sciences?
Yes former principal is ok.
Present all 4 or 3/4 subjects as subject tests and aim for high scores.