IB students to US colleges

vchoi084

I do not know if this fully answers your question, but I'll tell you what I know. For my university (University of California, Berkeley), in order to be considered for admissions, you need to have some sort of certificate of completed secondary education that allows the student to be admitted to a local university.  I do not know what MYP is entitled to, but let me ask you this: is holding a MYP sufficient for a student to apply to a local university in HK (or do you need certificate of graduation from an actual secondary school)? If that is so, then it should be sufficient to apply overseas.  

As for community colleges, they are not too strict on high school requirements.  For reference, you can check out Mt. San Antonio College, it's a pretty good cc for transferring to top US 4 year universities. www.mtsac.edu

I do know that many international students have the tendency of attending year 11 and/or year 12 of high school in U.S. before applying to community college (that way they have the high school completion proof).

As a side note, I was also an IB diploma candidate in high school (in the US), but I have never heard of the MYP.  For all I know, you can take individual IB exams and get a certificate of your grade individually or go the whole nine yards and take 3 higher and 3 standard level exams and complete other requirements for IB diploma.