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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has come up before. Roughly speaking, in terms of prestige equivalencies:

Oxbridge <= HYPSM

Imperial = Columbia/Caltech

UCL/LSE = Penn/Duke/Northwestern/Chicago

KCL/Edinburgh/Durham = Cornell/Hopkins/Brown/Dartmouth/UCLA/Berkeley

St Andrews = Rice/WashU/Emory/UMich/Georgetown

Rest of the Russell Group = UVA/CMU/NYU/Tufts

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As someone who lived in the Uk for four years with a spouse who taught A levels and supported the application process for the kids applying uni….. I can say with 100% certainty that this comparison is complete hogwash. I personally KNOW kids heading to KCL and only when pigs fly would they ever have had a chance at Cornell Berkeley Dartmouth UCLA. They were B+ students at best. I know kids going to Oxbridge and while they were incredibly hard workers they were by no means as impressive as some of the students I know at Princeton for example. And No One from the international school applied to St Andrew’s… Bath Warwick Edinborough and Durham but St. Andrews? It is a joke. [/quote]'

Perhaps this would be more accurate then.

HYPSM

Oxbridge = Columbia/Caltech

Imperial = Penn/Duke/Northwestern/Chicago

UCL/LSE = Cornell/Hopkins/Brown/Dartmouth/UCLA/Berkeley

KCL/Edinburgh/Durham = Rice/WashU/Emory/UMich/Georgetown

St Andrews = UVA/CMU/NYU/Tufts

Rest of the Russell Group = Other state flagships
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Sounds about right. [/quote]

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