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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]American parent here. So happy for our two kids that we found out about these schools early on. Both of my kids were decent students with good grades (1420 -1460 SATs and right at 3.75 UW) but not much in ECs.  No luck with t25.  We are CA, so it was tough at UCs. Their options were expensive private schools in the t-50/t-80 range or OOS publics with tuition costs that were almost as high….

They both went to the UK. My daughter to Exeter  (Marine Sciences) and is now at UCSD working on her graduate degree/research.
My son went to Bristol (Civil Eng) and is now at Imperial doing his masters.

We saved a TON of money here and they received an amazing education.[/quote]

This is interesting. DCUM is so focused on Oxbridge and Ivy’s. For those students like your kids and thousands of others hanging around t30 to t-75, this looks like it makes a lot of sense. Especially if you have an independent kid.

My niece just graduated from Edinburgh and is now working at Mckinsey in the US. She was in a similar situation as your kids. Good student, but didnt get in t25 schools.  She had offers from St Andrews, Exeter, Kings and Edinburgh and went to Edinburgh and graduated with a first.

The truth is, she would ‘ve never had the opportunity to start her career at McKinsey from any of the t50 schools she was accepted to as they just dont recruit there…….like a PP said, those who matter, know these schools.[/quote]

On another thread a pp indicated that anytime they work with someone from the UK they know the work ethic and work product is going to be rubbish in comparison to US colleagues. Your comment and the one previous upthread isn’t the reason why. Im glad for your niece it’s a way to game the system in her favor. But you’re basically saying she’s couldn’t get into BC level schools here. There isn’t a difference in caliber  [/quote]

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