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[quote=Anonymous]Tough is in the eye of the beholder. It doesn’t have to be Oxbridge.

I have experience with a kid in Bristol and St Andrews and one in a top 20 US school.

The grading in the UK is 100x more difficult. It seems like everyone has an A at my kid’s US school. In the UK to get the equivalent of a 90% is almost impossible.

There is no handholding. You are treated as an adult. Support is there if you search it yourself. They have tutorials in the UK and you end up getting more more in depth on each subject. Most humanities programs are very heavy on Essays with some or no testing. These are not your run of mill Essays…..these are long essays, citations, individual thought, graduate level essays when compared to the US.

With all of that said all 3 kids succeeded. My St Andrews kid spent a semester at Berkeley (that was a pain since he has to get approval for just 1 semester). He said the grading was ridiculously easier at Berkeley. Not even a comparison.

IN the uk you will typically have just one final or sometimes 2 assignments in the semester. Some classes is just one final and that is it. None of the homework/testing/quizzes, etc you find in US colleges.

SO yes, tougher from that point of view. At the end of the day, if you kid is bright he will be fine. My Bristol kid was lazy, but smart….and he survived fine with a 2:1[/quote]

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