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[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.

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

and yet UVA us send a Rhodes, a Marshall, several Fulbrights and seven other students to Oxford who got in on their own merit there this year.  And has sent 55 Rhodes scholars there. and yet you claim UVA “for all intents and purposes is unknown outside  the US”.  Right-o.

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