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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My niece is targeting colleges in the UK due to the cost savings.  Depending on the college, the tuition can be much cheaper than the U.S. even when adjusting for COL.  Also, for some degrees, she is able to combine/shorten number of years in school.[/quote]

OP here - that makes sense. Thanks. [/quote]

+1. small liberal college in the US just accepted kid for $80K total  a year. St Andrews for about $44K total (locked for 4 years) and Edinburg is even less than that. guess which we are flying to visit after being accepted. oh, as a bonus kid may also have a better chance to complete college experience without crossing path with some deranged idiot with an AR-15 who decided to go down in flames bringing some students with him. we considered also a great school for my kid's field of interest in the Netherland, tuition there would have been like 2000 euro.

cost of college in the US is beyond nuts and the idea that you can only study in the US because, other than Oxbridge, schools abroad are not that highly retated, as a poster seems to suggest, is dumb.  so many kids in my kid's 12th grade class in DCPS who applied, and got accepted by, schools abroad, mostly England, Scotland, Netherlands, Australia are applying abroad [/quote]

Better experience, all around. [/quote]

DP  I have first hand experience with Oxford. But by all means stay here and complain about the extremely rare chance of getting shot. Chances are the other problems listed above will be a problem, not a shooting. It’s cold, expensive (you have to buy everything anew -DC was sent off to Oxford with one large suitcase. Everything else had to be purchased over there. Because of the energy crisis, all costs have surged and students have protested at Oxford and other schools about no heat in their (often) stone dorm rooms with antiquated windows. Food prices are obscene. Women are indeed marginalized. St Andrews four year program, while different from the regular three year program, still expects students to be better educated and better writers than they are. The drinking culture is a much more serious problem than in theUSz. You have a lecture at 11 and the sherry trolley is rolled out at noon. Good luck but go into it with open eyes and remember everyone knows St Andrews started this courting of rich American students after it almost perished post WWII. This is all googleable. It’s not as dreamy as you think. Which is why Kate and others went there. It’s not for serious students [/quote]

The St Andrews hater really manages to spend all of their time on DCUM  :roll: [/quote]

You’re just envious because you can’t post anything like that[/quote]

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