Will I get into a british university?

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<p>I'm a junior in an American private high school looking into college in England. I have roughly all A's and B's and will be taking AP euro, AP calculus, AP chemistry, and AP English. What are my chances getting into any british university? </p>

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<p>British universities don’t care about GPA. They care about SAT Subject scores and AP Scores. What are yours?
Two of the AP subjects are likely to be prescribed for your major (“course”) so that’ll limit the programs you can apply to.
You can only apply to 5 programs, total. Deadline is January 15, at which point your teacher or guidance counselor must have uploaded his/her recommendation.
In addition, you wouldn’t get any financial aid, so what’s your parents’ budget?
What subject do you want to major in? (you apply for a “course”, ie., a major, and you take all your classes in it).
Have you looked at the Leagues Tables (Time, Guardian, or CompleteUniversityGuide)? </p>

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<p>ABB is the minimum at this highly-ranked university. Here are the equivalent scores expected fro
<a href=“International - Durham University”>https://www.dur.ac.uk/international/countryinfo/?cid=165&lt;/a&gt;
Next to your subject, there’d be AAB or ABB or AAA, so you’d need to adjust according to the requirement.
In terms of IB, ABB= 34, with your HL’s at 6,5, 5.</p>

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<p>I’m applying and they basically want you to get a high SAT, as many 5’s on your APs as possible (4’s don’t cut it), and 700+ on your SAT IIs (especially for the competitive ones). You really have to know exactly what you want to do, and you have to be good at it. Some may call you for an interview which they weigh quite seriously. It’s very different. If you have any questions you can ask me, but I’d advise you to want this 100% if you do pursue it because it will take a lot of time away from your US applications.</p>

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<p>Of course, this is for competitive schools. If you want “any” British university, the UK has both good and bad schools, so it depends on what level you’re going for. Check the international requirements for the schools you’re interested. </p>

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<p>You may already know this, but if you didn’t:

  1. tuition for internationals is about the same or slightly less than that at an American university (private or public out of state, not public in state). However, there is NO financial aid. If you are rich enough to not qualify for FA, then college in the UK is a good idea, otherwise, not.
  2. You study one subject for all three or four years. No general education requirements like in the US, and you cannot wait to choose you major, you must be sure upon applying.
  3. As implied above, the length of an undergrad is three or four years. Most science courses are four years and lead to a so-called “masters degree” although it’s different than in the US.</p>

<p>Personally, I think it’s not worth going abroad unless you have a strong reason to. I have a strong interest in a single subject (physics), so I am applying in the UK, but I still only checked Oxford, Imperial, and UCL. </p>

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<p>^check out Durham and Birmingham, too, which are higher ranked than UCL for physics.</p>