Does another country's college degree still count in the US?
Im Serious! I am a freshmen in high school and looking into colleges. I am interested in studying abroad and I would like to study in places such as in the UK, Canada, South Korea or Japan. I already know the best medical schools in the US but i want to know more on a world wide preservative. I'm interested in being a surgeon so, im wondering, if I were to study abroad will it still count.
If I'm enrolled in a university in my country, but cancelled it before I actually attend the course, can I still apply to UCLA (as a freshman or something)?
Thanks for the A2A.The best advice I can give is for you to tell UCLA the whole story. First of all, the school will see that there is a gap between the time you finished secondary school and the time you are applying for admission. Unless you address the gap they will have unanswered questions in mind. More importantly, you really have nothing to worry about when you tell them about your decision to withdraw prior to any coursework. There are a number of students each year who have special circumstances that caused them to withdraw. This decision rarely hurts the student unless it has something to do with violating laws or something negative. It does not sound as if this has any pertinence to your situation. In my opinion, you need to tell them about the circumstances behind your decision. The best thing to do is to write something up now and send it as an email to the person in the admission office responsible for your geographical area and ask them directly how you should approach this situation. Gaps in time worry admission officers. In this case, being straightforward is your best option.
Can I attend college in America as a freshman even though I'm already a sophomore in another country?
You can, but why would you?The American system is different from the Chinese (and I assume that Taiwan is similar to the Chinese system) in that unless you take a fixed technical program, most programs allow you to take courses as you can. You could look into transferring your current courses over, unless you did so poorly you think it will impact your application.I have a student who made the transfer to McGill in Canada after completing his Sophomore year at our University, but applied as a Freshmen using his High School marks only. So yes, you can use your High School marks to transfer to a US University (so long as you meet the TOEFL/GRE score requirements and GPA expectations), but you may want to look into transferring as well.Good luck.
Should I go to college abroad or in the United States?
For a bachelor’s degree, the only possible reason I can think of for studying abroad is if you definitely want to be an art history major. When it comes to any era of painting before pop art and any era of sculpture before Calder, nothing in the United States rivals Europe; and Europe has the advantage of being much smaller, relatively speaking, so that the Louvre is much closer to the Tate than the Met is to the DeYoung.I might – MIGHT – make an exception for working in glass. Although Murano, in Venice, certainly has the greatest collection of master workers in glassblowing, they frequently do not welcome students; the PilChuck school outside of Seattle features several of America’s best glassblowers and a few of the world’s best as well, in particular Leno Tagliapietra, who was Dale Chihuly’s mentor. Also, the Tiffany Museum and Winter Park, Florida, while having only a few of his masterworks, does exhibit a broad range of his unique skills in working with glass. The Corning Museum has some fine exhibits, but no education program.Another possible reason for studying abroad would be archaeology. I imagine that you can work on the excavation of Pompeii as an intern from Harvard, but it will be much easier as an intern from Oxford than it would be as an intern from Penn State.For any other subject, I think you would want to begin in the United States. Even art preservation is studied best at Winterthur, at the University of Delaware, with internships and graduate programs in Europe.I think for any subject other than art or archaeology, the United States offers many fine institutions, and you’re more likely to get a plum graduate assignment in Europe with good grades and recommendations from a top program in the United States.
Community college vs. University?
How do you know whats best for you? I could get accepted into any of the universities in my state and probably a lot out of state with my grades and test scores. Not to mention a really good chunk of financial aid. I'm just not sure if I'm ready for a University. I don't have a car, job, or even a computer that I own personally, I share with my family. I also haven't declared a major yet. I want the University experience but I don't want to rush into it and end up screwing up my academics. I'm contemplating holding off on going to a University and getting my Bachelor degree at a community college then switching out of state to a university because I don't really like the colleges in Arizona and I want to move out of state eventually anyways. So my question is, is this a good plan? And a few of the millions of other questions, If I start at a community college and transfer can I still get financial aid? Are Universities more likely to accept you if you're a transfer student or a freshman? Is it wise to start at a CC then switch other than financially? Can you get financial aid at a cc? What convinced you to go to college wherever you went? Anything else you can tell me when it comes to comparison of the two? Anything I should keep in mind when deciding one over the other? thanks!
Studying abroad from freshman year in college?
I want to get my bachelors abroad from a university in Spain with a very low tuition,not even $2000 a year. I speak fluent spanish and english and think this would go well in my favor but my parents say i should get my bachelors where i live first and then go anywhere i'd like to study. I believe this would be a very fulfilling and exciting experience and i think i have the maturity to live on my own in a different country but i'm not sure as what to do, i don't want to dissapoint my parents.
Can I apply to US universities as a freshman international student even though I am already enrolled in a university in my country?
Students already enrolled into a college cannot apply to US universities for freshman admissions. Look for requirements for transfer admissions.
Can I apply to a U.S. university as an international freshman student, even though I am attending university in my home country?
Generally you will be a transfer student. Some universities will allow a specific number of credits taken as a high school student (as a non-matriculated student, for example, or less than a full semester of study). Others classify any student who has studied at university after high school graduation as a transfer. It doesn’t matter if you were overseas or not.Though the colleges do not verify freshman status for each and every applicant (or matriculated student) be aware that if you lie on your application (present yourself as a freshman when you are not, using that college’s definition) that you can be dismissed if it is discovered. If you get into any other type of academic or disciplinary trouble and your file is scrutinized and reviewed and it is discovered, you could be dismissed and have to pay back any financial aid received: Cornell expels student, demands more than $100,000 over application dispute
Can I apply as freshman in the USA to start over after attending to an university in a different country?
Yes you can do that. If you have already completed your bachelors in another country or at least part of your bachelors, you can apply as a transfer student as well. As a transfer student you could get up to 60 credits of transfer - which means that you can complete your bachelors at the US university in say about 2 years.