The University of Edinburgh…?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St Andrews has 10k students, Edinburgh has 45k. Its a very different experience. Think Trader Joe's vs Walmart, yes more stuff and cheaper but not the same environment.

St Andrews is a college town of less than 20k where half of them are university students. Edinburgh has a population of 600k, out of which 50k are in U of Edinburgh.

[Anonymous]

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a10274881/st-andrews-scotland/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a10274881/st-andrews-scotland/

Embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

My experience has been that indifferent students who have poor prospects gaining admission to selective schools in the US opt for places like St.Andrews because it offers something relatively exotic and most Americans have no idea that it’s just a middling European university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My experience has been that indifferent students who have poor prospects gaining admission to selective schools in the US opt for places like St.Andrews because it offers something relatively exotic and most Americans have no idea that it’s just a middling European university.

+1. To a tee.

[Anonymous]

Edinburgh has always been a very prestigious university, seen as a place to go to if you don't get into Oxford and Cambridge (along with Durham / Bristol / Exeter / York and some of the London colleges).

St. Andrews is the place you go to when you wish you had gone to Edinburgh but didn't make the grades.

[Anonymous]

As someone with an actual student at St Andrews, who also received an offer from Edinburgh (and Durham, and Exeter), I can assure you that there are many students who had the grades, and turned down Edinburgh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone with an actual student at St Andrews, who also received an offer from Edinburgh (and Durham, and Exeter), I can assure you that there are many students who had the grades, and turned down Edinburgh.

I'm sure.

Doesn't make St Andrews the better school, though. Not by a long shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone with an actual student at St Andrews, who also received an offer from Edinburgh (and Durham, and Exeter), I can assure you that there are many students who had the grades, and turned down Edinburgh.

I'm sure it's an excellent school for top students living in northern Scotland.

[Anonymous]

There are about 1500 american students at each uni currently. There were almost 3k at Edi back in 2018. I am not sure why your hear more about St.A.

[Anonymous]

Lived in the Uk. Edinborough by a mile. People are impressed by seeing Edinborough on a CV. One of our Ops directors graduated from there, and it was forever ‘so and so went to Edinborough’’. That never happened with St Andrews.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Instead of sending a freshman away to another continent when US has hundreds of great schools right here, its better to do a semester or year abroad their junior year. They are more savvy, have a lot of course work done and focused on their major.

Because US Schools are crazy woke and too expensive - signed Oxford dad

I get the expensive, but "crazy woke" is ridiculous. UK is so far to the left of us already, and US universities have varying approaches. What does this even mean other than some partisan bumper sticker slogan? Even using that implies you don't think or asses merits of individual institutions. Slapping on labels just reflects poorly on you. -- Oxford alum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lived in the Uk. Edinborough by a mile. People are impressed by seeing Edinborough on a CV. One of our Ops directors graduated from there, and it was forever ‘so and so went to Edinborough’’. That never happened with St Andrews.

You'd be more convincing if you'd didn't spell the name of the school wrong three times in a row.

[Anonymous]

Nephew went there from California. Graduate in astrophysics about 5 years ago. Worked for a great firm in London out of college and now works in Chicago(same firm).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lived in the Uk. Edinborough by a mile. People are impressed by seeing Edinborough on a CV. One of our Ops directors graduated from there, and it was forever ‘so and so went to Edinborough’’. That never happened with St Andrews.

Same experience with my DD. 2 top unicorns in the US were fighting for her, and her coworkers constantly comment on her degree. Employers know Edinburgh very well.