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@yasemin12345
7 answers, 2 votes
 • 4 years ago •
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no AP classes

Hi i’m American but I live in England, there are no AP classes here and no IB is offered at my school would that decrease my chance of getting into:

- Harvard

- Dartmouth

- WashU

- JHU

- Tufts

- Duke

my stats are : AAA at a level, lots of ECs to do w medicine (applying as premed), 1550 SAT

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@Tolu
11 answers, 37 votes
 • 4 years ago

Hi, I see this is your first post, welcome!

The great thing about the admission process is that colleges look at your application holistically. This means if you tell them your school offers no AP or IB courses they most likely will overlook this.

Don't stress, many students have the same issue, but if you are really committed to taking these there might be a way you can "replace" these classes with classes from a community college to show them you are ready for college-level work.

I wish you the best of luck! :-)

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[🎤 AUTHOR]@yasemin123454 years ago

thank you !!

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@ashley
31 answers, 56 votes
 • 4 years ago

No, it would not. American colleges, only take AP and IB classes into consideration if your school had the opportunity for you to take those classes. If you're taking the easiest classes at your school in England then you may not get in. But if you are taking the more difficult classes you can definitely get in with those scores you just have to write pretty good essays.

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[🎤 AUTHOR]@yasemin123454 years ago

haha i took 3 a levels and 2 of them are a few of the hardest ones you can take :)

@Melokenzie4 years ago

There you go, you are doing great! As they said it would only look bad if you had the opportunity but didn't take it. No matter the school they want to see rigor and that you went beyond the requirements. I don't know in England but here to graduate you need 3 math credits. If you want to go to a selective school they would like to see you took 4 and so on, it's the same for all subjects.

@ashley4 years ago

You're doing great then. As long as you're showing that you are working hard and you're doing the best that you can.

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