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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another plus is the peers. The UK peers you will have at St Andrews are on par with the top kids in the US. It is much harder for them to get in and most need A*A*A* just to be considered or a 42+/45 IB. [/quote] Wouldn't Oxbridge peets be on par with the top kids in the US? I would consider StA peers to be T50 level. Also, the admission requirement minimums seem to be ABB, not 3 A*s. E.g. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/management/management-ma/#entry-requirements[/quote]

You are wrong. The minimum is a worthless metric. Sta has the highest Tariff entry for Scottish students. And the highest in the UK.
The avg entry grades of Oxford/cambridge and Sta kids are very very similar for English students. Minimums get you to apply. If you are applying to non-competitive program, sure. Same everywhere. Please go to student room forum. It is a UK forum with kid discussing their acceptances and rejections….many A*A*A*s rejected at Sta. That is top of the top.[/quote] I looked there for a bit but I couldn't find any with three A*a rejected.[/quote]

Not going to babysit you….you can look through here starting with the Oxford kid rejected at Sta: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7519579&page=48[/quote]

The required grades don’t mean much for UK students. Obviously you have to get these grades to get in but all of the top universities require similar. And simply getting the grades doesn’t mean you automatically get in either. It isn’t a useful metric to rank quality of the university. As has been exhaustively discussed in this forum, St Andrews is extremely popular in the US but it is not super popular in the UK (for lots of reasons including extra year of study, weather, location, etc) nor is it super prestigious compared to Oxbridge, UCL, LSE, Imperial, etc. However, it is a sort of hack for Americans because it is considered prestigious here. [/quote]

Sums it up well.[/quote]

Wrong again. Nobody is ranking any uni based on grades. saying it isn’t popular in the UK is just not factual. There are more than 11,000 Applicants from RUK (Rest of UK, not counting Scotland) to St Andrews….That is a HUGE number. Another 5,000 applications from Scottish Students.

DATA from UCAS and St Andrews
Total # of Applications to St Andrews was 26k with 16k from the UK (8k total undergrads) 
For comparison, Durham had 34k applicatinos last year (17k total undergrads). Cambridge had 21k (13k undergrads)., Imperial had 30k (11k undergrads), UCL and Edinburgh 70k with 25k students at each.

So please show me again where it not popular with UK students?[/quote]

11k Applicants from RUK for what is typically 1/3 of the class of 2000 (650 students) is pretty good.[/quote]

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