I want to study in Mexico, but i have studied all my life in the US I'll be out of high school in may...?

Question

I was just wondering if it would be hard to make that transition or do I have to do any extra paper work.

( I'm Mexican American, speak Spanish fluently )

Answer 1

You will need all your transcripts in order, you can ask in your high school, how to certified them, they have to have an attached apostille from the State you study in.

And they may ask you to get some kind of certification or notarization in Mexico.

If you are going to study as a MExican citizen, you may need to get your CURP (unique code of population registration), and if you are 18 you should get your "voting card" (is the main ID in Mexico, and they ask for it for almost any tramit).

You will also need your birth certificate, and usually you will have to take an admission test and have a certain GPA.

Other requisites will vary from college to college; and you will have to contact them directly, specially because there is a time frame limit for inscription, and also a limit in capacity for admissions.

Because you are not used to study in Spanish and a lot of the terminology will be unfamiliar, you will need to do an extra effort, and maybe take some extra classes for spanish redaction, for example. And it may take you longer to read the most technical stuff.

But there  are many foreigners that go to study to mexican colleges for a year (ITESM, UDLA, IBERO) in an exchange program. And they do just fine.

If you are willing to walk the extra mile and you set your mind to not dismay, with the obstacles in the beginning, you should do fine.

Remember the transition to college is in general not easy specially during the first semester.