Meeting Cambridge qualifications?

collegemom3717
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:54:37 +0000

And one more small question, how important are your highschool grades when applying? Mines are fine but I just kept reading mix answers so I got confused. Some say that Cambridge doesn’t bother looking at your transcript and only looks at your test scores… But I found that really unlikely but I could always be wrong lol.

So, @Thestudier225, pay attention: the UK system expects you to be responsible for yourself. They do not handhold the way the US does. They provide the information and they expect you to find it, figure it out and sort it. You call yourself “the studier”, you feel that you are smart enough to go to one of the top 5 universities in the world, and resourceful enough to study in another country but you haven’t found your way to:

http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/usa

which is where Cambridge spells out the requirements for applicants from the US? From that page, here is what Cambridge says it wants:

High passes in the High School Diploma and the SAT are expected; a high pass in the SAT usually equates to at least 1,400 in Critical Reading and Mathematics and also 700 or more in Writing to give a combined score of at least 2,100 or equivalent.

If you read the page and follow the links, 2 click later you will be here:

http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/transcripts

Where they say:

You’ll be required to submit a High School Transcript as part of your application to Cambridge,

So, your GC uploads your transcript (if you read the rest of the page they actually only have to upload Junior year final marks but that’s too much hassle for most GCs!), and unless it’s pretty bad it’s fine.

People here are happy to help, but you have to help yourself as well.