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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]St. Andrews/Trinity are both safeties.

Oxbridge and Imperial are for the kids with top stats.[/quote]

In America….because they like your money.

In the UK Trinity is several  steps below St Andrews. [b]Here in the UK, getting in St Andrews is just as difficult as getting in Oxbridge. [/b]Even harder on some subjects. You Americans have it easy.[/quote]

This is ridiculously untrue. St. Andrews is nowhere near Oxbridge in the UK. I'd be virtually any amount of money you're American.[/quote]

You're absolutely clueless, aren't you? Loads of RUK kids, including my own, get into Oxford and get rejected by St. Andrews. It happens all the time, love. If you can't wrap your head around that, don't worry about it. Just stay in your American bubble. it's definitely easier for you lot, but it's a completely different ballgame for us RUK students over here.
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I hear you and I know you are correct for UK students. But I think the topic here is for US based students. And it is much harder for US students to get in Oxbridge than St Andrews. I know that for UK students is very hard. They published this a year ago showing the ranking of the lowest admission rates and St Andrews was 4th, very close to LSE and Cambridge, so you are correct. Also I realize these numbers are inclusive of Internationals, which is easier at St Andrew’s. I guess if they publish UK only admissions rate it would be even closer. So while you are correct, when looking from a UK perspective, for a US student it is different.[/quote]

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