5 GCSEs (U.K) eqivelent to a high school diploma (U.S.A)?

Question

Am going to go to the usa in august to continue my studys. In the uk am gonig to do GCSEs seen as this is my last year in secondary school. After secondary school which i finsih in june and get my GCSE results in late august i have to go to a USA college. My questions are:

Is it true that GCSEs (U.K) eqivelent to a high school diploma (U.S.A)?

I am doing something called a BTEC first diploma IT which is worth 4 GCSEs do you think the USA will recognise this as part of the 5 GCSEs i need a C grade or above in?

Answer 1

Hi Just thought I would let you know - we moved to Orlando in July 2008 after my daughter did her GCSE's here in N Ireland ( 6 A*, 5A's and 1 B she got) paid a large sum to put her into a private high school she graduated in May 2010 - now we have moved back to the UK - I applied to UCAS to get her into Uni - no can do - I was told High School Diploma is only equal to 5 GCSE's !!!!  so she is really upset as she feels she has just wasted 2 years and the chance to go to UNI to do Pre -med ..  she is thinking of going to a technical college to do 2  A Levels at night class (thats the max she can do in a year) she is planning 2 this year and 2 next year - pushing her age to almost 21 before she can go to uni ---- whish we had of know this before we went out.
Good luck with your move hope it works out better than ours did - theres more to life than florida sunshine!!!!