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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly I don’t understand the logic. If you don’t want to spend 250k on a US college you don’t have to. Go in state (UTA UVA Michigan UNC are all great schools for prime students) or Get merit at a T100 school.

The majority of the people I see posting on DCUM with kids going abroad are prestige hunters whose kids didn’t have the grades and stats to get into the T20/30. So off to St Andrews they go. So mommy can drop a name.

From what I see it’s not about quality of education at all. If it was y’all would be hyping up Durham and Warwick. But instead it’s the same 3 UK schools (I don’t begrudge Oxbridge btw that’s legit). But LSE as a psych major? Please.

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PP already said they live in a state where in-state is not great. They dont want in-state. You act like getting Merit at a T100 private is so easy.

Give you our story.  DS is a 2nd yr at Durham. He applied to 8 US schools. We are in Texas. He had a 1490 SAT, 3.8/4 UW GPA, great ECs but he was just outside the top 10% by 1 position in his HS. So any decent In-state for us was gone (Not UT or A&M). He was accepted to 4 other privates T-30-T70 range. Had Merit offers to 2 of them. But even with the Merit Aid he received, Durham is still much much cheaper when comparing 3 vs 4 years. This is not the reason he selected Durham. They have an amazing program that when coupled with the cost, made the decision to forgo the expensive privates (with some merit) an easy decision. [/quote]

Similar story here.

We are in California. Kid wanted UCB or UCLA. Didn’t get in any of the 6 UCs he applied to. 1520 SAT, 3.9/4 UW GPA, very good ECs.
Got in USC and NYU with zero merit. Also got in U Wash. Had $20k or os merit at a couple of other privates.

He got in Edinburgh, UCL, Kings, St Andrews and Durham. He just started school in the UK. Not telling you which one he chose to attend to avoid the ridiculous DCUM condescending messages….

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I’m skeptical of this story. Of course UCB and UCLA are competitive, but the next most competitive UC are UCSD, UCSB, UCI with admit rates at 25-30%.

Next one is UC Davis with 45% admission rates and median stats way below what PPs kid had, which also got into highly selective NYU (8%), USC (10%) and Washington University (11%).

Not to mention that UC Santa Cruz, Riverside and Merced are essentially safeties with admit rates 70-80+%.[/quote]

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