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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the poster who said that Saint Andrews wasn’t all that selective and was reported and deleted for daring to say that lol. I don’t want to say too much, but I do know a family where all of the kids went to Saint Andrews from the DMV. They were smart kids but not superstars. None was accepted top schools.  Denied in state UVA etc.  So I do have more than just the theoretical knowledge about this.[/quote]

There are a couple of factors here:
-Year: When were the kids accepted to St Andrews? It has become even more competitive in recent years.
-School: Did the children attend a private school? If so they would have a higher chance of gaining acceptance to St Andrews as they target private school to get higher donors
-Acceptance rate & prestige: As addressed numerous times on this thread, you cannot correlate the US acceptance rate with the academic prestige of a school like St Andrews for various reasons. 
-Bias: You state that "They were smart kids but not superstars. None was accepted top schools". As noted on this thread there are countless "superstars" who were also accepted to top schools and decided to attend St Andrews. Your own perception does not capture the full picture. Furthermore, even in the US there are kids who slip through the cracks and attend top schools. There are also multiple people on this thread who have shared the stats of their impressive kids who were not accepted to St Andrews.

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DP. Last year was actually the least competitive of the past three years for American students.

There are multiple people on this thread and others whose kids were choosing between it and CU Boulder and the like. The anecdotes on here are worthless.[/quote]

I went to St Andrews and more of my US classmates were choosing between low ivies/UMich/UCLA/Emory and other top 20 schools vs. a school like CU Boulder/BC/NYU. I don't think you can get more accurate anecdote.. [/quote]

I did too and I honestly couldn’t tell you what schools most of the other kids had chosen between the year before. Because, let’s be honest, this is made up.[/quote]

It's not made up. I also went to St Andrews and now attend a Top 3 grad school (law/business). OP is telling the truth- a good amount of the accepted US students got into T20 US schools. You're telling me you never discussed other schools you got accepted to with your US classmates/friends? You must have not graduated recently or lived in a bubble.

[/quote]DP. Who are you really? I find it hard to believe that a grad student has any time or interest to respond here.
I think StA is great though.[/quote]

Actually University of British Columbia has a special program for applicants who are Native Americans / Indiginous Canadians which is essentially a first gen program.[/quote]

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