u/MiddleGrocery4833

As reluctant as I am to do a T-kurs Studienkolleg again, I might have to for the sake of getting admitted to literally any TU.

I did a Studienkolleg 2 years ago at CBS International Business School in Cologne (regretfully) when I was freshy 18 and didn't understand the consequences, those being the fact that an English FSP cannot be magically compatible with a German one upon obtaining a C1 German level.

So now here I am, fluent in German, FSP (in English smh) in hand, ready to test my luck with Universities, and lo and behold, I'm getting rejections left and right because my FSP was in English and is therefore only valid in the NRW. I should've expected this but my 18y/o self didn't register the gnarly consequences of an English FSP.

I've emailed some Studienkollegs about my situation, asking if I can do a T-kurs Studienkolleg again given that the first one was in English which technically makes it a different curriculum (given the Hauptpflichten sollten Deutsch, Mathematik, Physik, und Chemie in einem Deutschstudienkolleg sein). For context, Google says that T-kurs Studienkollegs cannot be taken more than once; I'm supposed to change subjects in this case. But I'm hoping that the English factor will change this.

Does anyone have any experience with this? This feels like a really stupid niche international student problem. Full-heartedy regretting attending CBS rn and keeping my fingers crossed that TU Dortmund wants me

And I fear that TestAS cannot save me despite all the praise I've heard about it

This is my first post on reddit ever so bear with me- I'm pretty desperate here.

So I've been living in Germany three years now (I'm from the US), I first completed a Studienkolleg which was unfortunately in English, then I learned C1 German, and as a last-minute way to not get deported, I got into an architecture program at a Hochschule. During this semester I've only participated in half the classes, I'm only doing half the exams, and I've been mostly focusing on learning German to the point of Telc C1 Hochschule and a buncha Aptitude exams for TU applications.

I've always wanted to study architecture and I've heard that TU's are the best schools for this field in particular (most internationally recognized which would help me a lot in the future!). However, because I did technically study architecture for one semester at a Hochschule, I cannot apply for a first semester of this subject again, right? One TU has already rejected me with this reasoning. So tbh now I'm kinda freaking out.

I don't think any credits will transfer over because 1. it's a hochschule that I'm studying at, and 2. my current architecture program is in English. I was looking forward to starting over fresh in Semester 1 at at TU in German, now I think I'll go another year of pushing off this dream. :(

If anyone has any advice for me it would be greatly appreciated! Or if anyone knows good counselors/beratungsservice for international students (besides DAAD). I'm struggling with this process so much.