AS/A-Levels/GCSE grades

missotisregrets
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:53:57 +0000

Hey!

I go to school here too. I’ve heard from admissions people who visit, and the person in charge of US apps at my school, that they consider your GCSEs first, and tend to look at them the same way as Oxbridge - basically you want 8 A*s, 2As minimum, I think.

As for ASs and predicted grades, they’ll want As and As respectively, but I don’t think they look at, or even see, the module marks - my school’s transcript doesn’t even put them. So low As would be fine as long as you’re predicted an A or two.

It’s possible that the requirements are actually lower than that. In America they look at your GPA, which corresponds to your GCSE/AS results (though this is in your favour as it’s possible to do less work all year and get good marks), your class rank (I don’t think schools here tend to rank, but they assume you’re highly ranked and your recommendations will probably give a sense of that) and your course load - however, most A Level courses are pretty rigorous and it’s not possible to be taking a lot of joke electives, which they look out for in America.

For these reasons I think they are pretty generous towards UK applicants as long as you meet the results they’d minimally be looking for in an Oxbridge student.

Best of luck!!