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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As places rich kids who couldn't get into American schools with similar pedigrees can buy their way into (especially St. Andrews, not so much McGill) [/quote]

1. They're not more expensive than any 60K+ American college, for which a lot of DCUM families are already paying.

2. St Andrews ranks significantly higher than McGill, but McGill is nothing to sneeze at.

3. Stellar academics = admittance. This is a refreshing alternative for students who don't want to be played by American exceptionalism re: extra-curriculars, geographic weight, and being pushed aside for athletes, legacies and kids of big donors.

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Actually the relative place of McGill and St Andrews depends on which global ranking you use. Bottom line: they’re both excellent, and have a worldwide reputation that none of the MD, VA or DC colleges have - with the exception of Johns Hopkins, also at around the same place in global rankings.

It’s funny that posters here fight over UVA, which to all intents and purposes is unknown outside the US :-)

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Actually LOL if you think McGill and St Andrews have more of a "worldwide reputation" than the schools you're trying to belittle. I don't even like JHU but to even suggest that those two schools have a similar reputation or prestige as Hopkins is delusional. Are you Canadian or British?[/quote]

Neither. I look at the data, that's all. It's incontrovertible. And I note that anyone who gets offended at the thought that their country's colleges aren't as hot as they imagined, and accuses the other of having the same nationalist bias, is not going to be appear very credible.

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