US Students Applying to UK schools (Discussion Thread)- 2016-2017!

collegemom3717
Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:09:17 +0000

Well, your first issue is that if you really want to go to medical school in the US the UK is not your best bet: only some medical schools accept internationally-educated students, and they typically want you to have done the core classes in the US.

The second issue is that for the top UK colleges you will need all 5s (at least 3-5 of them, depending on the uni), in subjects relevant to the subject you are applying to study. You don’t have to have finished all the exams before you apply though- you can get an offer conditional on your senior year AP results. If you are looking at Oxford or Cambridge, there are additional entry exams and of course the crucial interview.

The third issue is that (with the exception of the Cambridge Natural Science tripos) you have very little course choice: if you apply to study biology, you study biology. You want to be very, very sure that you want to study that subject.