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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Mambojambo2024][quote=Anonymous]I know two girls who went to the UK for school. Both schools are great but not Oxbridge. Both went to a t5 NOVA HS. One is living in the UK working for a university in some sort of administrative role (secretary or something). The other is living with her parents at home and does some work as an artist.

Generally, I feel like peers who went to selective US colleges (roughly t40 or 50 before US News methodology change) were better off compared to those who went abroad, (especially if they planned to return to the US) with few exceptions.[/quote]

This is interesting and odd. It takes a different kind of kid to forgo a US education to go to UK or Europe. If your kid is not an independent, motivated go getter, he/she just wont last in a UK/EU university environment that lacks the baby handholding we see in the US.

So it is hard to believe someone who had the drive, initiative and independence to go to school abroad, is now a “secretary”. That tells me this kid, whether going to a t50 in the US or anywhere else in the world, would have probably end up under employed anyway. Though to assign the under employment of this kid (if that is indeed the case) to a decision to attend a UK school vs a t50 US school.[/quote]
It's definitely possible she would've been in a similar position no matter what. This said, she was extremely involved in HS and driven. She won a national humanities competition (not scrips spelling bee level but still a laudable achievement). And I should mention that i'm not exactly sure of her title. I just know it's an administrative position (could be called "coordinator" or something).

I think in both of their cases, finances were a primary motivation. As you say yourself, tuition is much cheaper and students can graduate in three years.

Neither of them wanted the rah-rah of football games. I think the culture of many large american colleges might've turned them off to US institutions and on to UK ones.

I don't think it was the case for either of them that going abroad indicated some sort of hyper-independent gumption absent in their domestic college-going peers. [/quote]

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