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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in London and my BF went to UCL - all the London universities have to work hard to create a student atmosphere because they are competing with everyone else in the city.

There will be a student union building with bars, cafes, offices for clubs and information to help students (subsidized priced food and drink) and there will be help with housing if she chooses to live outside of dorms for any of the years.

Its a very prestigious place - and huge congrats to your kid for getting in, especially from an American HS. [/quote]

Agree with all of this. I'm from London and some of my friends went to LSE, UCL and Imperial. (I went to Cambridge as I wanted the collegiate experience and I didn't want to stay in London.) My friends in London had a great time because of course London is a fantastic city - but the universities don't have that intimate university feel because, as PP said, there is so much else going on in London. For example, one of my friends who was a medical student was really into circus skills, and she and a few uni friends joined a London group for people to learn and practice circus skills and she made a lot of non-university friends through that, which was great but a slightly unusual experience to have at university. All of which is to say, London has a lot to offer generally and student life suffers somewhat because of it. Perhaps it is similar to going to university in NYC, though I don't know.[/quote]

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