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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brit here. The St Andrew obsessed poster here is really off the mark. There are heaps of universities in the UK that are better than St Andrews before they would even come into the conversation. Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, LSE, KCL, Durham, Edinburgh, Bristol…  St Andrews is not even the best uni in Scotland, as Glasgow and Edinburgh, maybe even Aberdeen would be considered before them. St Andrews is not even in the Russell Group!

It would be like some kooky booster trying to convince people that Rutgers was one of the best universities in the US, a superlative destination filled with deeply intellectual and aristocratic students. Please.[/quote]

In the year 2020 St Andrews is the top choice of applicants to Scottish universities. All of the national rankings place it top in Scotland, and within top 3 of the whole UK[/quote]

Top choice of American applicants maybe. At my kids DC based private school, the second and third tier kids apply to St. Andrews. These are still very smart and competitive kids but the first tier kids don’t consider St. Andrews.[/quote]

Yeah for American applicants, but in Scotland and the UK it's the most sought after university in the UK after oxbridge

Elite private schools like yours in DC, where a statistically significant portion of the graduating class are admitted to Ivies/Stanford/MIT/etc., are  an anomaly in American education. It's not the norm for a school to have such a substantial portion of moneyed families and legacy kids who have incredible privilege/test prep/private college counselors, and the school counselors have relationships with the top schools. No hate to those schools and the families at them, but it's just not the norm. [/quote]

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