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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, thanks for posting. Currently tossing up potential choices for DS if a conditional offer for economics from Edinburgh comes through (already has offer from Durham). [/quote]

Similar spot here. Son has offers from Bristol and Exeter. Waiting on Edinburgh and St Andrews.
Is your son leaning Edinburgh if everything comes through?[/quote]

My DD got unconditional offers at St. Andrews and Edinburgh in November, but has heard nothing from the LSE.

Anyone hear anything from there? [/quote]

Is she really planning on attending one of the three? As of now, is she leaning STA or UofE?[/quote]

I'm hoping she'll choose a US option!  I don't like the idea of her so far.  But the choice is hers. I will discourage anything that isn't unconditional -- I don't want that hanging over her head in June and July.[/quote]

It’s OK takes up an offer from an American university and a conditional offer from a UK university. It’s sort of like staying on the waitlist of the school.[/quote]

That is what my son did. He had a ED offer from USC last year and a conditional from LSE. He met the conditional and is now finishing up his 1st year in London.[/quote]

What was the condition he had to meet?[/quote]

He already had 5 APs with a 5 but they also wantes to see AP Calc BC with a 5 as he was taking it in his sr yr. He accepted his USC offer and his deposit by May 1 and then waited the May AP exam. Once he got his  5 on Calc BC, and LSE confirmed it, he dropped USC.[/quote]

I wonder how many kids do this. Probably not a lot. UK universities now understand that to attract top US talent they need to make unconditional offers. [/quote]

No, applicants who are serious about attending these schools understand the conditional offer as part of the process.  My student was granted a full ride scholarship (Marshall, Churchill) to Cambridge for post-graduate study, and even those students receive conditional offers. When you think about it, offers to US universities are conditional in a different way (there are conditions which would nullify the acceptance, eg. transcript, diploma, some disciplinary actions). [/quote]

PP had an interesting question. For a conditional that depends on a AP test that will be taken in May, means that to cover your bases, you probably need to send a deposit for a US school by May 1st. Unless you are with your insurance selection. I had heard from two different US based admissions counselors that focus on UK schools that those schools are getting better every year about assessing US applicants and offering unconditional offers. [/quote]

This is not my experience. Two kids who went to high school here and now go to UK Universities- conditional offers all round (despite being good students). It is just the way things are done there. It is only the ones that are super keen on attracting US students (eg St Andrews) that do unconditional offers, unless the student is exceptional. Yes, it sucks for US students. But everyone in the UK is in the same boat. If you don’t get your grades there is always the clearing process.[/quote]

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