NYC private parents: is your school pushing Oxbridge / St Andrews to your top/competitive kids?

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Anonymous wrote:St. Andrews/Trinity are both safeties.

Oxbridge and Imperial are for the kids with top stats.

In America….because they like your money.

In the UK Trinity is several steps below St Andrews. Here in the UK, getting in St Andrews is just as difficult as getting in Oxbridge. Even harder on some subjects. You Americans have it easy.

This is ridiculously untrue. St. Andrews is nowhere near Oxbridge in the UK. I'd be virtually any amount of money you're American.

You're absolutely clueless, aren't you? Loads of RUK kids, including my own, get into Oxford and get rejected by St. Andrews. It happens all the time, love. If you can't wrap your head around that, don't worry about it. Just stay in your American bubble. it's definitely easier for you lot, but it's a completely different ballgame for us RUK students over here.

It is around the same level as Trinity, in no way above it!

For US students sure….Here in the UK, I’m sorry….St Andrews is way ahead of Trinity….in my circles in London, very few kids even look at Trinity….

Why would they? Doesn’t Trinity have overseas fees for the UK lot? Anyhow, we don’t really care what you think of an international school like Trinity. In the United States, Trinity has cache more than St. Andrew’s, which is cliche. Trinity makes a student interesting…not to mention there are certain benefits from being in the EU.

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Anonymous wrote:counselor at our TT seems to be pushing Oxbridge pretty hard (to multiple competitive kids), even though historically, we send about 1 to Oxbridge per year (at most), 1-3 to St Andrews per year. That was interesting to see (junior parent here)

is this single sex TT or coed ?

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And our top NJ people pretty private, kids who can’t get into Wisconsin end up at St Andrews. Not for best and brightest. For rich kids who can’t get into top schools/

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Anonymous wrote:And our top NJ people pretty private, kids who can’t get into Wisconsin end up at St Andrews. Not for best and brightest. For rich kids who can’t get into top schools/

Just private. Sorry. Not really people pretty

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Anonymous wrote:St. Andrews/Trinity are both safeties.

Oxbridge and Imperial are for the kids with top stats.

In America….because they like your money.

In the UK Trinity is several steps below St Andrews. Here in the UK, getting in St Andrews is just as difficult as getting in Oxbridge. Even harder on some subjects. You Americans have it easy.

This is ridiculously untrue. St. Andrews is nowhere near Oxbridge in the UK. I'd be virtually any amount of money you're American.

You're absolutely clueless, aren't you? Loads of RUK kids, including my own, get into Oxford and get rejected by St. Andrews. It happens all the time, love. If you can't wrap your head around that, don't worry about it. Just stay in your American bubble. it's definitely easier for you lot, but it's a completely different ballgame for us RUK students over here.

It is around the same level as Trinity, in no way above it!

For US students sure….Here in the UK, I’m sorry….St Andrews is way ahead of Trinity….in my circles in London, very few kids even look at Trinity….

Im From Dublin, my sister in Law taught at Trinity. But this is true, even here, nobody compares Trinity to St Andrews. It might be comparable for Americans, but even here we see St Andrews as a step above Trinity.

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Oxbridge is definitely being pushed for the top students, in addition to Imperial for CS ninjas. Regardless, acceptances at our private are very low and the application process is intense.

StA is an increasingly favored recommendation as an Ivy off-ramp. It’s a good value-add ‘sell’ for our counselors. Their US application volume and selectivity are increasing but still arbitraged vs. the UK, the league tables are gaudy, the curriculum is deeper than US schools, US-like uni experience, top tier grad school results.

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1) Oxbridge is more prestigious that St Andrews

2) You cannot correlate prestige with admissions rate when comparing St Andrews to US schools. St Andrews is much easier to get into than it's US equivalent with similar prestige. Brown, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Williams, Amherst are most similar. St Andrews is seen as a "safety" by some private schools not because it isn't a high caliber school, but because it's easier to get into.