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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ UK universities are ENTIRELY merit based. They don't give a f*ck who your parents / uncle / grandma may have been.[/quote]

All European universities are merit-based.

That's why some Americans are so afraid...[/quote]

Right. What percentage “merited” going to expensive preparatory schools?[/quote]

Schools are irrelevant. It's merit based on your examination scores and interviews. The faculty at the British universities are all extremely liberal. The faculty interviews the students for admissions into the courses. British private schools have an excellent record of turning out graduates with the scores to get into top universities but that's not the university's fault. [/quote]

Right, so who goes to these elite prep schools has nothing to do with who your dad/mom/grandpa was. You know, ENTIRELY their merit. Uh huh. [/quote]

If you can pay you get in. Its pretty simple at most schools. And admissions is also based on examination results. The universities don't take dummies from the private schools just because of who their parents might be. Look at Tony Blair. Only one of his four kids went to Oxbridge, I believe, while the others went to other very good universities.

Kid, I know you're angry at life but don't sprout nonsense on something you know nothing about. It's not too different from the Ivies, which remain dominated by upper middle class kids from no name but educated families. [/quote]

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