Can an American senior in high school graduate in Japan?
I'm going to Japan my senior year for an academic school year. So, would I graduate there, or would I come back to the States and graduate here? Thanks for your answers, if any! It's an exchange.
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1 :
Ask whatever program you're going with. If you're an Exchange Student, you'll graduate in the States.
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depends if you're going to come back and graduate here or become a japanese person and stay there. if you're there the whole year you may graduate with them and have the ceremony there. i'm not sure if you get japanese diploma as well but they will surely give you whatever HS diploma from whatever state your regular school was in back home.
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Do you speak Japanese? If no, you will not be able to do any classes and won't be able to grad (thought they may let you take part in the ceremony for fun). Kids who go abroad for their grade 12 year either graduate before leaving, or do another semester/year when they return to get the credits to graduate. You may be able to talk with your school and receive grades (or at least a pass/fail grade) for classes like P.E., but you might as well write off academic classes. I'm in Germany (same alphabet, easier language) and I sure wouldn't want to be getting graded! I can barely do any school work! I've been here 5.5 months (didn't speak German before) and that is no where near enough to be doing school work like a normal German kid. Also, it's likely you will be placed in a younger grade. I am 18, turning 19 in a few months, and finished high school, but I have been placed in grade 11. There are kids my age at school (grade 13, German Gymnasiums [schools that grant diplomas that let kids go to uni] go to grade 13), but my class is 16/17.
