GPA and APs for UK Applications?!

TheRealKEVP
Sat, 12 May 2012 08:35:43 +0000

I think that what Chocolate Orange said applies generally to all UK colleges & unis, even the selective ones.

As UKgirl says, students in UK schools the same age as US high school students don’t have GPAs, people in Britain wouldn’t really know what a GPA is. (And even in the US, GPA’s are not standardized, you can go to a school that tends to give higher or lower grades) But they can look at these US standardized exams and know how they compare to the UK’s own exams (such as “Okay a grade of X on an American AP exam is about the same as a grade of Y on a UK A-level”). So that’s why they use those to determine admissions for US students.

Also remember that in the US, if you pass AP exams it will allow you to skip some first year classes, but in the UK your AP exam scores will just let you start right as a first year student with all the other first years. Because the standards of British education are so much higher, and what US students do in their first year of college British students do before they went to college (and needed to do to get into college!)

Karl Paananen