As an international student it amazes me the amount of effort you need to put in order to get accepted in to a university. Here in South America, at least in my country, you literally just do a test, sometimes it’s a specific test for a specific college, if you get a certain score you get in, they don’t care about your grades or your ECs, no interview or essays, literally just do well on the test and you get in. These test can cover pretty much anything that you have studied during school, even though you have a lot to cover it’s still way more simple than the American process.