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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think the stereotype of St Andrews some of you are expressing is out-of-date. Our college counselor told us it is HIGHLY competitive for British kids and becoming much much  more so year by year for US kids, especially ones willing to go overseas, as the US top 25 becoming almost impossible for smart but unhooked kids. Our counselor said it used to be super-posh elites and has become more much difficult to get in.[/quote]

+1.

Current St Andrews student, for reference, here are some of the American schools which my American St Andrews peers & I got into:

NYU, UC Berkeley, USC, Dartmouth, Cornell, UChicago, Williams College, Boston College, UVA, Hamilton, Haverford, Kenyon, Colby, Middlebury, William & Mary, GWU, Connecticut College, Colorado College

People on DCUM act like we couldn't get in anywhere else, but every American I know here was a competitive candidate with 1400+ SATs or high 30s ACTs. Lots of my friends got near perfect scores on these.

Was every American here also getting into Dartmouth/Cornell? No, but some were. Many more of my peers were on Ivy waitlists. The biggest acceptance overlap, anecdotally, is NYU. I've met lots of kids who also got into NYU, and were choosing between there and St Andrews.

If you're a parent/student considering St A, I'm happy to answer questions, I can share the good and the bad, because there's definitely both aspects, but overall it's a great experience both in academics and student life.[/quote]

Good for you, but I am the poster who knows a family whose kids go to Saint Andrews and they would not have gotten into any of the schools you just listed. Sorry. You don’t know everyone who attends your school.[/quote]

Hmm. Poster who knows a family with kids at St. Andrews versus a current student. I wonder who has a better grasp of the quality of the American students there. Maybe it’s not you?[/quote]

The “current student” doesn’t know the grades and GPAs and college acceptances of every one of their American classmates, and if she does that makes her super weird.   My only point is that I know for an absolute fact that there are kids in St Andrews from the US who were absolutely not candidates for admission to any of the top universities that the “current student” mentions.  [/quote]

Good lord...give it a rest. Who cares that you know students who attend St Andrews that didn't get into better schools, that's not exactly relevant or helpful input to this discussion. Of course the current student doesn't know everyones admission stats, but neither do you and WGAF!!!![/quote]

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