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I’m not the poster above. I’m the poster with the kid accepted at USC and Durham. …

But yes, the cost at Durham full pay vs USC full pay is not even in the same dimension, specially when one is 3 yrs vs 4. 
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He applied mostly to US privates….and so far, despite some good acceptances (USC, WashU), he has revived zero merit. …

I was just asking others about any experience with these schools and kids who turned down good acceptances in the US for UK/EU schools.
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I went to a school in Tufts-Emory-Rice class myself. I have a son who earned a social sciences bachelor’s at a school that is, roughly, an EU equivalent of UCLA, with in-country tuition. So, an average of $1,500 per year in tuition for three years.

My son passed every class, earned good grades, enjoyed himself, completed a one-year master’s, and now has a job that seems like a good starter job for him.

He fears Trump and won’t even consider returning to the United States until Trump leaves, so I don’t yet know what will happen if he tries to apply to jobs or grad schools here.

Pros:

Going to a UK or EU school is great for a disciplined student who wants an offbeat experience and who can get into a place like Tufts but doesn’t end up with an affordable option at that level.

At least in the social sciences, students who are good students here are good students in the UK and EU.

The level of academic sophistication at good UK/EU schools is high and comparable to here. The classes are good.

The programs are not necessarily two-test-a-semester or final-exam-only classes. My son had some discussion classes, and professors seemed to have a mix of papers, quizzes, presentations and major exams.

The full cost of the bachelor’s and master’s was less than one-year at USC.

The cons:

Those schools don’t provide much support. They don’t even have many on-campus jobs for students.

My experience is that it’s hard to find U.S. students who’ve gone to UK/EU schools and come back here, because that’s a somewhat new thing. So, I still have no idea how well or poorly that will work.

But the real con is simply that the world looks a lot more complicated than it did five years ago. I think the only way you can send your kid to Scotland for school, for example, is if your kid is a rugged survivalist who can handle anything or if you have a friend or fourth cousin in the UK who’d take your son in for a few weeks if all the universities suddenly shut down. [/quote]
Tufts is not the same level as Rice and Emory. So it seems like you went to Tufts. [/quote]

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