Community college admission

lemontealover
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:54:02 +0000

hi,i’m new here.
em…okay,my case is a little bit complicated,so it’s quite long…

I am from Hong Kong
High school students here usually graduate in Form 5(=11th grade).
They take a public exam and then they are considered “high school graduate”.
They can then get accepted by community colleges in US if they wanna study in the US…

In other words,you take the exam,you graduate.

But this year,the system’s changed.Students will take the exam in Form 6.This pulverizes my plan as I wanted to study in a community college in California after finishing Form 5.

So I decided to take a public exam from Britain(IGCSE).The old system of ours was the same as the Brit’s,that is to take the exam in Form 5 and get considered graduate.

PROBLEM:
Even I take the exam,and this proves that “I am of the level of high school graduate”,I don’t have a high school diploma,which i don’t know if it’s required in admission in CC.

I’ve asked De Anza College(the one i wanna get in),the Director of International Student Programs said they will CONSIDER me for admission if I take the IGCSE and apply for De Anza.But my bro said the departments of De Anza are quite separate,there’s still no guarantee that the admission department is gonna consider me.

My plan is to finish cc in two years,then transfer to a UC.Here comes another problem.
A university requires applicants to show their high school diploma during application…

QUESTION:
1.Does taking the IGCSE help getting me accepted by a community college,if i don’t have a high school diploma?

2.Is a high school diploma really important when applying a university?Can i just show my transcripts to prove that i’ve studied in high school?

3.Is there any other way for an underaged non-high school graduate to get into a CC then a UC after two years without a high school diploma?

4.Some ppl told me that I can go to Washington as CCs there provide high school completion program.But my bro said it’s useless as my aim is definitely a UC and transferring from Washington to a CC in California is not possible either as the units would be complicated.

Is that so?So if i get into CC in CA,i can’t get into schools like John Hopkins?I wanna major in something about biology and chemistry.John Hopkins seems really great…

But anyway,UC is still good.



Thank you for reading!Big apology for my English,hope you understand me.

And please don’t tell me to apply after finishing Form 6.I don’t wanna waste a year while I should be qualified to study in a community college.

Thanks again.Please Help!