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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minimum American entry standards sure are low compared to Oxbridge-LSE for St A’s:  36 IB score, 28+ ACT, 650+ SAT 2s, As and Bs grades [/quote]

They're comparatively low for two reasons:

1) This is the baseline, difficulty of admission varies greatly by subject. IR and Medicine for example are much harder than some others. And if you want to get in you better have 5s on APs/high SAT II scores in subjects relevant to the subject you apply for

[b]2) Standards are a bit lower for Americans and other international students[/quote][/b]

Of course it is. Because it is a money grab! Duhhhh!!!
Serious students don't go to St. Andrews. It's where rich kids go to screw off. At my kid's international school, the smart kids were gunning for Oxbridge, LSE, Bath, Warwick, Edinburgh. Not a single applicant to St. Andrews.[/quote]

Then why are the St Andrews entry requirements the highest in the UK bar oxbridge? https://thetab.com/uk/2020/08/03/revealed-these-are-officially-the-hardest-unis-to-get-into-in-2020-169276[/quote]

That article isn't about entry requirements, it's about "hardest" meaning mostly how many other applicants there are (or who knows what). Entry requirements, as other PPs have said, differ from subject to subject in every university. Even at Oxford and Cambridge there are easier and harder courses to get into (in my day Land Economy and Education were the two easy ones for Cambridge, with Theology not far behind.) As a Brit, I agree that the US obsession with St Andrews is odd! It's good but not that good, with plenty of unis above it or at a similar level, and it's strange to see people rank it so highly. [/quote]

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