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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also it looks like the other PP was referring to this list of the unis with most Americans attending that another poster shared:

1. University of St Andrews – ≈ 1,810
2. University of Edinburgh – ≈ 960
3. University of Oxford – ≈ 720[/quote]

This is a blip in terms of the number of US college students which I believe is around 16MM.

Now, maybe a million are applying and this is all that gets in…but I doubt it.[/quote]

What does this have to do with the thread?[/quote]

That the record number applying is only like maybe 10,000 kids total out of 4MM kids applying to college from the US[/quote]

Considering that for most Americans, their universe extends only 100 miles from their home, it is actually pretty impressive that there are 10,000+ kids applying to UK schools from America. I’m willing to bet 99.99% of all kids applying through the Common App could not name more than one UK university.[/quote]

I guess...but it's still much closer to 0% (0.25% exactly) than it is closer to a material number.

I was also being quite generous based on the overall acceptance rates of these various UK schools...but my guess is that US kids aren't applying unless they are likely to be much stronger than average applicants with a higher acceptance rate, so it could easily be 25%+ fewer kids applying.[/quote]

Not only that, comparing UK admissions rates to US rates is ludicrous and makes no sense. Unlike the US where you can apply to 498 unis, in the UK you can only apply to 5. And you cannot apply to Oxford and Cambridge. It is either or. There is a self selection bias already that doesnt exist in the US. [/quote]

+1. If this was the case in the US, admission rates to Ivies would increase by 500 to 1000 bps….it is that simple.[/quote]

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