Are admissions at English universities just as competitive as American ones for graduate school?
There is no official method of equating British and American educational qualications. The educational systems are entirely different, and any attempt to compare them must necessarily be tentative. However, over the years, Runnymede College has built up a body of know-how and knowledge based on the experience of sending pupils to US universities practically every year. Applicants to American universities and colleges are considered on the basis of their academic record, school references and admissions tests. Each individual institution sets its own admissions requirements and the standard of competition varies considerably. The basic requirements are successful completion of secondary education as provided in the applicant’s own country or in the national system in which the applicant has been educated of a standard that would authorize admission to one of that country’s universities. Students educated in British schools will therefore be expected to have five GCSEs or O levels and tw