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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Durham indeed is a good option. [/quote]

Durham is up there in the rankings. It does however, have almost 40% of its students coming from private / independent UK schools which is a wealthy and tiny minority of the country. Outside of Oxford & Cambridge it has the highest percentage of these kids. [/quote]

Exeter and St Andrews also have very high % of students from these schools. Even Edinburgh is like this. It is not a Durham issue.  I’m not sure what the “However” means in your comment. For a portion of US kids going to these UK schools, their parents on avg had the ability to pay for Private schools in the US, so the fact that 40% of the students at these schools come from Privates would not even ring a bell with any of the US parents sending their kids to the UK. If they truly wanted a very Ethinic diverse student body, they could have just sent their kids to a Public school in the US.[/quote]

6% of UK all students attend private or independent schools, just to put this in perspective for you.
St Andrews has 56% from state schools and 20% overseas so around 30% from private and independent. Exeter similarly has 30% private and independent UK school leavers.

There are outreach, contextual offers (slightly lower academic expectations if you come from an impoverished area) and other long term efforts to create equity within the UK university system. Not something perhaps you'd know about as a US appliant though. [/quote]

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