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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t have to worry about publishing research at age 16 or founding a non-profit or being team captain, yearbook editor and first chair violin. It is so much less stressful to just have to do what you really like outside of school and get good grades. We have made our teenagers overworked, anxious robots. This is a way out of the madness. [/quote]

If you don’t pass your A levels there, you’re toast.

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Yes, but US-based applicants usually don't submit A levels.  All you need is 5 APs (with a score of 5) and some minimum SAT score.[/quote]

For the majority of schools in the UK. Just like at the majority schools in the US where the right test scores and GPA are all you need.  [/quote]

OK, but there are ZERO top-tier US-based schools that rely on solely academic criteria for admissions. Even the public Ivys care about sports, ECs, diversity, etc.  (Oxbridge also consider social advantage of applicants and give special preference to students applying from failing state high schools, but they don't look at SES for foreign students.)[/quote]

And? The US has had colleges become a luxury business. In the UK because that has not happened yet, and the fact there is a cap of 5 universities that you can apply to, there isn't the same kind of market push. Because there is no market.[/quote]

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