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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter attends and she loves it. Cold and wet and dark, yes. Exorbitant student housing prices, yes. Flights aren't too bad if booked in advance. Living costs can be high. There are a lot of very, very rich kids and there are stores/restaurants to cater to that demographic. She hasn't experienced any anti-American sentiment - or if she has, it hasn't bothered her. There are some St Andrews haters in this forum who are probably going to disagree with me, but the entry standards are very high and so the Scottish and English students who are accepted to St Andrews tend to be very smart and very competitive. Americans less so. It's not easy. Students are expected to act like the adults they are, and there is zero hand-holding. My daughter says that there is an assumption that students have already learned certain concepts, which might be the case for UK students but not for a kid who graduated from a public high school in the US. She took an Economics class and had to teach herself the material that the other students already knew, even though she took AP Macroeconomics.

Happy to answer any specific questions. [/quote]

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