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[quote=Anonymous]I think the biggest difference I saw attending college in Europe (University of St Andrews in Scotland) and now going thru the college process with my kids here in the US is that European universities assume that your kid already knows how to write, research, think critically, etc., that those skills were emphasized in the primary and secondary school curriculum, and that students don't need to spend a lot of time on the general education type classes to acquire them. So, instead, students tend to jump right into the classes that pertain to their major/what they want to do with their life as opposed to spending the first year or two taking gen eds. For some kids, this is great. For others, it's not. I think it takes a certain kind of kid, the kind who knows what they want in terms of a major/career, to succeed. [/quote]
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