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[quote=Anonymous]Anyone comparing to Europe are clueless. Most European university students are commuters who live with their parents, akin to going to a local community college or 2nd/3rd tier 4-year state school in the U.S.

The amenities at European universities are generally old and musty. No sports programs, aside from self-organized clubs. Old research labs.

Unlike the US, not everyone can even apply to university in European; you need to have attended an academic HS (ie, not a trade school) and qualified with minimum scores on national tests. And once you are in a European university, they are pretty brutal about "up or out." Weed-out classes exist to ensure students can competently handle their major. One of my ex's studied engineering in Austria and the policy was that about 50% of the first year students would leave the program - either voluntarily or would be forced out by not achieving the minimum threshold score to advance to the next year in the program.

Generally, European students are better prepared for university than U.S. peers. They have been constantly weeded out from a college track starting at around 12 years old. It's brutal. Most U.S. kids would breakdown from the rigor. [/quote]

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