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[quote=Anonymous]Unless your kid is specifically interested in studying abroad or has links to/experience with the UK, I would definitely go with Yale. 18 is young to go abroad to a country that may end up as a terrible fit; there are different pop culture references, different historical knowledge/background that's assumed, different everything... The undergrad experience (unlike the post-grad one, which is much more international) is very UK centric and even the international students there mostly went to UK-style schools doing O/A levels with some ex-pat Brits and many British teachers. An American with a typical American background is going to feel somewhat out of place and will end up having an atypical experience unless they get very lucky.

I did my undergrad at Yale and MPhil at Cambridge. The latter was an incredible experience, but absolutely not what I would have wanted at 18 fresh out of HS. Do Yale. Study abroad for a year or plan on post-grad work; the nice thing about going to Yale are there are a million different ways (including lots of Yale-only $$) to get your post-grad paid for abroad. I was a very good student at Yale but nothing unusual/notable and I got 3 different offers to may for my Cambridge studies (1 National, 1 Harvard/Yale available and 1 Yale only); the Yale only one went to the 3rd runner up because the first 3 of us all had other offers. There were probably 10-12 other my year Yale grads at Cambridge with me. Which is all to say... choose Yale and you can do both.[/quote]

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