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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.savethestudent.org/freshers/which-universities-are-easiest-to-get-into.html[/quote]

Gush, their hardest has an acceptance rate of 20%... 
Across the Atlantic, we have 4%, 3%.  Ridiculous.[/quote]

OMG, typical american ignorance of the system masquerading as inferiority complex.

You do realize here in the UK we can only apply to 5 unis? And either Oxford OR Cambridge but not both. It is self selection. It is not like the US where a ton of mediocre kids  applying test optional inflate admission rates. Please read a little more before making idiotic comments on things you clearly do not understand.[/quote]

This is true. The whole "acceptance rate" metric is not something that is looked at in the UK because it is not about vast numbers of unqualified people applying to Harvard and pushing that rate to the tiniest of percentages.

The other thing is, it is much easier for a US applicant to get into St. Andrews or any other UK university other than Oxbridge. I have spoken directly to an Oxford college admissions person. She explained that they actively try NOT to offer to US students because with their UK offers, if they make the grades they always attend, whereas the US students do not always attend, sometimes choosing an Ivy over the travel, and when that happens, they effectively "lose" a spot that they could have offered to a UK student. [/quote]

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