<p>Please do top colleges frown at accelerated A-levels? please tell me so I can consider dropping out of this sixth-form!</p>
<p>I doubt colleges will care whether or not your A-levels are accelerated. However, they will care <em>a lot</em> about the non-academic achievements on your application. Have you accomplished enough to be competitive at the colleges you’d like to attend, or could you benefit from an additional year?</p>
<p>All of the international students I have met at Ivies and other top universities were highly accomplished. They included medalists in the international math and science olympiads, the head of the “young adult” section of a major national political party, an award-winning journalist, and a successful entrepreneur who started a small business out of his bedroom at age 16 and had expanded to a dozen employees two years later. Can you compete with that?</p>
<p>I heard only 30% of admitted applicants are stellar awardees and there are actually normal accomplished people who get admitted. I don’t have a lot of international awards but I have national and school ones. What am saying is will my application suffer if I submit only my O-levels?</p>
<p>Why don’t you ask the colleges you want to apply to?</p>
<p>They haven’t replied. Is it possible they didn’t see it?</p>
<p>They are probably busy and your email may not have the highest priority. I would wait a week, and then email again or call. </p>
<p>At my undergraduate college, admission emails were sorted by student workers. They answered the more straight forward questions and forwarded the rest to a full-time staff member who could help. If your question got forwarded to someone who is out of office (e.g. traveling and representing the college at college fairs), it could take a while to get a response.</p>
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<p>Actually I know a few who are just “normal people”. And some who actually came from disadvantaged backgrounds, which seems to be a plus for the Ivies.</p>