Record Number of U.S. Students Apply for U.K. Undergraduate Degrees For 2025-26

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excellent outcome. My friends son just graduated from Stanford and also just started at airbus, also in Toulouse. American kid. Paid full freight at Stanford - which wasn’t pocket change for my friend

Now that is quite the move….Didnt even realize these guys were recruiting all the say in the west coast for Toulouse. Must have been a great offer to make the move.

[Anonymous]

Reading this thread reminds me how myopic are lots of American parents.

Admissions rate means better uni…..oh my. In the case Northeastern is 100x better than Oxford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread reminds me how myopic are lots of American parents.

Admissions rate means better uni…..oh my. In the case Northeastern is 100x better than Oxford.

I don't know if they're myopic, but they are ignorant. The ignorance is based on the assumption that the whole world is structured and functions according to US systems and tropes. It does not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this thread reminds me how myopic are lots of American parents.

Admissions rate means better uni…..oh my. In the case Northeastern is 100x better than Oxford.

I don't know if they're myopic, but they are ignorant. The ignorance is based on the assumption that the whole world is structured and functions according to US systems and tropes. It does not.

Quite. I’ve been in the DC area for two decades now, and I must say, the provincialism is almost impressive at times. This is a region that prides itself on education, and yet I routinely encounter parents who, if pressed, would struggle to name the countries in the UK, let alone understand the gulf between American and British university admissions. My son’s going into his third year at Oxford, my daughter’s just starting her Honours at St Andrews, and yet someone once kindly informed me that St Andrews “isn’t very good” because the American admit rate is apparently 35%. Northeastern, I’m told, would have been a far better choice, since its admit rate is so much lower.

At this point, I’ve accepted that trying to explain the difference is a bit like reciting Shakespeare to a Labrador. Endearing, but ultimately futile. I simply nod, sip my tea, and remind myself that the world is full of mysteries best left unsolved.

[Anonymous]

If u could only apply to 5 unis in the US and they eliminated the ED/EA game, Northeaster would be a 40% admission school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point, I’ve accepted that trying to explain the difference is a bit like reciting Shakespeare to a Labrador. Endearing, but ultimately futile. I simply nod, sip my tea, and remind myself that the world is full of mysteries best left unsolved.

Wise. Good analogy.