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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are so many differences that start way before University.
The Brits start to specialize much earlier. Kids heading towards the sciences are taking nearly all science classes by the time they are in HS. The same is true for arts. I think of the MIT type kid as the equivalent pre university student here in this country. 
Their sciences are a step ahead because of this. 
The tutorial system takes the brightest young adults and gives them relatively intense attention (not for everyone). The idea is not to intimidate though.
They DO NOT CARE ABOUT EXTRA CURRICULAR activities. 
Grades will be lower, they are mature enough to know that no one is perfect. 
[b]I have never met an incompetent person coming out of Oxbridge[/b]. 
I have met some incompetent people who have come out of HYP. 
Endowments different...socialization of education. [/quote]

I'm one of the Brit PPs who went to Cambridge. This is arrant nonsense. I can only assume you don't know many Oxbridge graduates. [/quote]

Seriously. I’m not British, but my sister went to Cambridge (albeit for an MPhil) and I’ve spent a bunch of time over there. Just like any great school, there are smart people graduating from Oxbridge and there are incompetent people there. [/quote]

Ok OK, I will fix this...to make up for this statement, I will say that US HYP grads are more well rounded and more outgoing..? Does that help?[/quote]

More well-rounded I can see, given the liberal arts curriculum (though it would depend on the person and the composition of courses they took), but more outgoing? That’s a personality type. [/quote]

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