do all American universities need high school diploma? because I'm am studying in an English school.?

Answer 1

They would want you to have the equivalent of a HS diploma. Whatever requirements UK universities demand of their incoming students would be good enough for US universities.

Answer 2

When they say high school dipolma they mean the equvalency in course studies. Many colleges accept unaccredit homeschoolers, unschoolers and those with GED (a diploma equivalent by test). Many also look at the American SAT and ACT test scores.

Basically what they want to see is you passed the prerequistes that meet their standards

Biology, a Math Science (Chemistry or Physics), Algebra, Gemomentry, Trig, History, Contemporary Politics, Economics, STatistics, Art

Since the British education system is generally rated higher than the American system if you are capable of entering British college you should be capable of meeting an American College requirements.

The American colleges often want letter of intent (essay or biography), letters of recomendation help, as does extra cirricular work (student governemnt, debating club, competitive team sports, work in a hospital).

A lot depends on the college, to. Cal State U has lower requirements than the UC system and they have lower requirements than private schools like HArvard or Purdue.

All schools have a placement test for Math and English. Some schools place you in a course based on that test, other schools reject you if you don't make the grade cut off.

Answer 3

If you complete your A levels, you should have no problem gaining admission to a US university. Because you're coming from overseas, most universities will require you to take the SAT exam, as an entrance exam. You can take this exam in the UK. It's a standardised test that most people applying to university in the US have to take.

Even if you just do your GCSE, you can gain admission to some of the less-competitive US universities. They'd require you to take the SAT exam, plus some of the SAT subject tests, or the AP exams, to show that you have the equivalent knowledge to the A levels, but if you did all that and had a good application, they would let you in.

Check the web pages for a few US universities, and see what they require of international applicants. Start with these schools, just as examples of what may be required of different types of universities:

- Dartmouth College (in the US, "college" is a term used synonymous with "university")
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Middlebury College