studying abroad

does anyone know if GPA is important for getting into a school overseas? i'd like to study in europe, but my gpa is like 2.78.......? something like that

is that important over there or???????

Queen of Memes, welcome to psych central. Sorry I don't know about school admission policies. I imagine they vary from school to school.

What is your major?

thank you!!
that's okay, i'm sure i'll figure it out along the way

i'm still in high school, but i would like to major in European history/history

it depends on what country are you intending to go.... because europe is not like the usa... it's not a big country with states. it is a lot of little countrys. as different from each other as they can be.....
but for the most I know the grades what are important are mainly from your finals - in my home it's like 50%/50% gpa-graduation. the entrace point system also varies greatly....
here, in hungary we have high entrace points for the popular faculties such as psychology and economy, also for pure art faculties such as on academy of art and academy of music....
the philosophy/art bachelors (BA) are usually medicore..... (expect for the really popular ones) and the science faculties are the easier to get in - obviously..... if you attend mathematics and you are not enough, you'll flunk fast....

I guess history is mainly on philosophy.... soooo that's all I can say. search for what school are you interested in and check their entrance options.... consider things such as fee and what language the majority of the lectures are ect (I was searching for full english chemistry Bsc and they're not as common as it sounds - but if you speak german or french you are good!)

ahhh i see. i was looking into england and it's like??? difficult

but i'll look into the schools, see what's going on there, might send an email or two.

thank you though!

GPA is not any more/less important than here but depending on where you want to go, they will probably have special requirements for foreign students. I was looking at Oxford's requirements yesterday, for example:

International qualifications | University of Oxford

and I imagine all the schools/countries/universities have some sort of page like that you can find? The biggest problem I found is their whole way of approaching schooling is different from ours; in England, for example, college is only 3 years and you only study your major subject, not all the other stuff like we do here in the States.

I would enroll in a good European History program here in the States and then transfer after a year or two of getting all the math, science, English, social science, etc. in that we require but which the Europeans usually learn in what would be a 5th year of high school/junior college to us. You have to know all that stuff before their advanced schooling usually and pass a test, etc.

I notice the Sorbonne has partner schools in the US, you could also see how to enter a program here, and then transfer there?

Aux Etats-Unis | Sorbonne Universités

I have a history BA from a good program here and last year got into and took a year-long history degree program from Oxford that is roughly equivalent to the 3rd year of their colleges (in other words, having done well I could, if I lived in England, get into graduate school there). It was hard to get into, even with my 4.0 history major gpa. I had to write a paper based on readings I downloaded and know of an English woman, former school teacher of Literature who did not get in because they told her she could not write well enough (she had to be able to write "history" and she obviously could only write English literature). Even having gotten a 4.0 in history courses here and a BA, I will only graduate with the equivalent of a "B" or "B-" (their grading is foreign to us too). Taking European history in Europe, you would already have to know a whole lot more than we possibly could, having been raised here. It's the whole culture and how we were raised, etc. that makes it much harder.