Now more and more students and parents are willing to choose the road of studying abroad, which is more flexible and gives students more choices. However, many students and parents' understanding of the school basically comes from overseas institutions or online information. When they want to transfer from domestic universities to foreign universities, they encounter all kinds of troubles. So, what are the specific requirements and procedures for transferring to the United States?
Confusion 1: Do American universities recognize domestic university credits?
"Whether American universities recognize students' domestic university credits depends on the similarity between students' majors and application goals in domestic universities and professional courses offered by American universities. For example, we learned a lot of English and rough courses in our freshman year, which is unlikely to be recognized by other universities. In other words, if you want to transfer from a domestic university to a foreign university with similar majors, the higher the domestic university credits recognized by the other party. " "Whether the school recognizes credits when transferring is not directly related to the school ranking, but only related to the selected major. "
Puzzle 2: What materials do you usually need to prepare for transfer application?
As parents and students know, TOEFL is a homework that all international students have to prepare, but few schools have rigid requirements for SAT. "In addition to TOEFL, IELTS and other routine exams, transfer applications also need to prepare transcripts in Chinese and English. Many American universities also need students to provide high school grades. In addition, students should prepare resumes and personal statements. " Sun Juan told reporters that it is very important to describe university courses in Chinese and English. "This will largely determine your admission and transfer scores." Some American schools stipulate that overseas transcripts must be sent to third-party institutions for certification. Now, more and more students apply to study abroad. For the target school, it is a very time-consuming job to review the application materials from all over the world. Inevitably, some application materials will be found to be false and untrue. Therefore, many American universities require students to provide their transcripts to third-party American institutions for professional transcript evaluation. "The role of the third party is to conduct a comprehensive and neutral review and evaluation of students' academic qualifications, grades, credits and courses, and recalculate the average score (GPA) of students by using the scoring mechanism of American universities. Then American universities will judge and decide students' admission qualifications and credit conversion based on the evaluation reports provided by these institutions. "
Puzzle 3: Do undergraduates in domestic ordinary universities have the opportunity to apply for famous American universities?
No matter whether you study in a domestic ordinary university or a famous university, you have the opportunity to apply for transfer. "No matter at what stage you apply to an American university, the criteria for the school to review a student will not be just a separate aspect. In the process of transfer application, students' high school grades, college grades, TOEFL scores, SAT scores (as required by the school), professional course background, special experiences inside and outside the school are all factors that the school will consider. "In addition, it is necessary to remind college students in Sun Juan to take more courses with transferable credits, such as calculus, physics, statistics, microeconomics and macroeconomics, and the GPA must be high; In addition, when choosing a school, we should fully understand each other's recognition of domestic schools and credits. It is not that the higher the ranking, the harder it is to record, nor is it that the lower the ranking, the better it is to record. For example, UC series basically does not recruit international transfer students.
Puzzle 4: Which major in American universities is relatively difficult to apply for transfer?
"Generally speaking, it is more difficult for business schools and engineering schools of comprehensive universities to apply at the undergraduate level than other colleges (such as education colleges, liberal arts colleges, etc.). ), and the professional background of students and the preparation requirements for compulsory courses will be relatively strict. It is easier for science and engineering students to pass when submitting transfer applications.