Is the applying process to world's best universities that hard? What about the first year?

I'm a 17M in Turkey, I'll graduate from high school next year, I want to study Molecular biology and genetics and I kinda want to take every chance I can. I've surfed around the best universities' sites and most don't even have restrictions like "you should have an English proficiency or even taken an exam to prove you're the level they want you to be" (Harvard to be specific, Oxford wants an English test result, which isn't a big deal but it's pricey) My grades are nice and so is my English, I've checked University of Cambridge UK's last year's admission test and the questions are literally simple compared to what we see here, I feel like I can do it, and I may be able to get a scholarship (I have to in order to study) but I don't know how tough it'd be to study in there, considering they're the best I might have to waste another 4 years studying, plus without my family nor a lot of money. It seems I have to work about 10hours a week after all the study, which seems like quite the thing.

My thoughts are crammed up, so please excuse me if what I wrote here is as well, I'll try and answer all questions.

Submitted May 27, 2021 at 02:03PM by mgumusada https://ift.tt/3i4e7UR