International Time Constraints

Clueless34
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:40:55 +0000

I have a friend in China who would like to go to school in the US. He’s about to enter into his last year of high school there and so it’s about time that he started applying for US colleges. The problem is, there’s always the chance that he won’t get in and since the Chinese education system is so different from the US, he would have to invest a lot of time away from his Chinese coursework to prepare for examinations that are needed for US colleges. We’re worried that he might spend too much time working towards the US college apps and have it not work out. Then he would’ve lost too much time to catch up for the chinese examinations too.

So the best plan I can think of is for him to spend his last year studying for a Chinese college and put off the US apps for a year. Once he’s in his first year of college, he can then spend some time studying for the SAT’s and whatnot and apply once he’s in college. The problem is, can he still apply as a freshman international student once he’s already in a Chinese university? Or does he have to apply as a transfer student then? Would this be different for each school?

Also, after attending a Chinese university, would he still need to take the SAT or can he just send his college grades or something? Can he still use his high school grades once he’s already in college? Or does he have to use his college grades to apply?