Pre-Med Admission/ Foreign Student/ What should I do?

MYOS1634
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:35:36 +0000

1° it’s better to take AP Chem than to take Honors Bio. You should try to take as many AP classes as you can.

2° check with your GC to see whether you would be allowed to treat this year as 10th, taking English 2 + whatever science classes, then next year as 11th, and then senior year. The fact you have to take English 2 and 3 the same year would indicate this plan is more reasonable anyway.
You will NOT be penalized for this and in fact you will be helped by it by having 2 full years of American HS by the time you apply to college.

3° if you’re a permanent resident, you’ll be treated like an American citizen. If you’re not, then things get much harder and depend on your status and what state you live in. Some colleges and States consider that if you graduate from a US HS you would be treated as “in state”. Others don’t.

4° I don’t think you should leave the US and your family to live alone in Romania at present.

5° Colleges would admit you based on your overall record. While it’s best to have all three of Physics, Bio, and Chem, it’s more important to have as many AP classes are you can, including AP English Language. I assume you should be able to take AP French (or another foreign language, since I assume you studied two). Feench 3 should be ridiculously easy for you.

6° You can also apply to a boarding school, presenting your admission results from Romania. However, only the top ones have financial aid for non residents.

Can you tell us

the state you’re in, and your status

your exact junior schedule, indicating whether any of these classes are “honors”. (Does your Guidance counselor understand you were taking the equivalent of a full IB program at a school equivalent to Stuyvesant or New Trier)?

whether your GC might agree on placing you in the 10th grade so that you can take the English sequence in order