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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are about 22k american undergrads in the UK.

1)  St. Andrews - 2200 
2)  Edinburgh - 1600 
3)  Oxford -1500 
4) UCL - 1000

These are not an insignificant number.

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Yes and these are by far the largest US alumni bases from these UK schools.

Edinburgh historically had the highest number of american students ever until St Andrews made an effort to push for Americans 20 yrs ago.

A lot of people here have no idea of how influential U of Edinburgh was on  US Universities.

1) James Blair founded the College of William & Mary.
2) John Witherspoon reformed Princeton’s curriculum based on Edinburgh’s structure.
3) Samuel Bard one of the alumns that founded Columbia’s Medical School.
4) Penn, Harvard, Yale medical schools used the U of Edinburgh Medical School as their model.
5) the US university flexible curriculum was modeled originally after Edinburgh’s approach… 
David Hume was very influential on Princeton’s and Harvard curriculums[/quote]

Thank you for this. It is fascinating. I had not idea. Just read this about Witherspoon https://pr.princeton.edu/pub/presidents/witherspoon/[/quote]

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