US to UK without SATs or APs

sugar_and_spice
Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:24:18 +0000

To make a long story short: I’m currently a student in the second year of a California Community College. I was planning to transfer to a UC/USC, etc. but upon going to the UK -specifically Oxford- for three months in a Study Abroad program, I fell in love (or obsessed) with England and decided that’s where I wish to study and live for the rest of my life.

I know that one cannot transfer, and I have researched about UCAS. The problem is that although I’m an American citizen, I’ve lived abroad for most of my life in a spanish-speaking country until college. Therefore, I’ve never taken SATs or APs, which is what UK Universities are interested in. So I was wondering what one should do in my case. Study to take the IB or APs by myself? Is there any way to take A-Levels in the USA? How demanding is this work?

tl;dr
-American student
-Wants to apply to UK universities
-Finished secondary school abroad so doesn’t have SATs/APs/ACT

Thank you.