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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you, UoE alum!  Very helpful. Decision down to Bowdoin or UoE.  Very different experiences, but both probably great.  Have found it easier to find parent/student thoughts on Bowdoin, even after searching the Student Room.  In the end, not my decision, but trying to get as much information as possible.[/quote]

I’m the mom of a son in an obvious UofE peer school.

I don’t think typical UK and European parents are as involved in this, and I don’t think the kids are as focused on fit.

The cost for kids going to school in-country are so much lower that the stakes are much lower and concerns about customer service and comfort are less pressing.

If you know you’re getting a respectable bachelor’s degree for $2,200 per year, you can live with a clunky admissions office.

But, if the alternative is Bowdoin, these options are so different that your son has to choose based mostly on affordability, if that’s the issue, or based on horror of living in Maine.

Bowdoin is so good for a U.S. student who can tolerate it that it’s the obvious winner. He would get much more faculty attention there and a lot more dorm nurturing.

The reasons to go with UofE instead are if it would be much cheaper, your son would hate being in a small town in Maine, or your son is dying for an adventure.  [/quote]

The horror of living in Maine? Wow. I dream of living in Maine.[/quote]

+1.  I love Scotland too. Its winters will be a little milder than Maine on average.  But its spring and summer will be colder and greyer than Maine’s.  The real kicker though is the sunlight hours.  In the winter in Edinburgh sunrise is 8:45 am and sets at 3:45 pm.  Those are long nights. I’d move there in a second though. [/quote]

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