Anonymous
10/28/2025 04:03
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:St Andrews is the Northeastern of the UK. Highly overrated and totally lacking in real prestige. The only USA high school graduates who turn down USA top 20s to attend are the ones on this thread or their mothers. And they pop up over and over and over again. My guess is really there are maybe three of them.
Baseless claim. Look at the UK league tables, Northeastern isn’t remotely close. I went to St Andrews and 4 of my close friends got into T20 schools. I guess they must be the only ones..
someone will do an IP check soon to see if you've posted as multiple personalities in this thread. Pathetic boosting.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 01:58
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
There are a lot of kids with fairly international backgrounds. And St. Andrews is very much part of the mix - like McGill, University of Toronto, UBC, LSE, Imperial, Edinburgh. Among American universities, there's probably some overlap with NYU, BU, and Columbia. These are comfortable schools for kids that grew up all over.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 01:41
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
I'm a fan of Queens in Belfast.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 01:13
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's often a pick for private school kids who can't get in somewhere more elite here. A family I knew drew the line at Colgate and when their son didn't get admitted there, they settled on St. Andrews.
It's obviously a good school, but I'm not sure the degree holds as much power if you plan to come back to the US for employment post graduation.
At our HS, Notre Dame is often a pick for private school kids who dont get in somewhere more elite. But.. anytime someone asks about ND, I dont jump in with that fact. Who cares?? My kids are at a top NYC private where every kid who is going to any college not named Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Stanford is going there because they didnt or couldn't get into HYPSM. Does that make Georgetown a bad school - it has over 50% acceptance rate from our HS. How about Carnegie Mellon? What about USC?
you are all SO WEIRD
I would be real interested in learning which high school in the USA uses Notre Dame as a back up. Such a school does not exist.
Regis. Sacred Heart. Marymount. Cistercian. Possibly Strake
One of my classmates transferred from Notre Dame to St Andrews. Ended up having an impressive career in IB and then PE in London.
Right because he was smart enough to get into Notre Dame. Probably had nothing to do with Saint Andrews.
St Andrews actually places well in London IB firms
Anonymous
10/28/2025 01:12
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:St Andrews is the Northeastern of the UK. Highly overrated and totally lacking in real prestige. The only USA high school graduates who turn down USA top 20s to attend are the ones on this thread or their mothers. And they pop up over and over and over again. My guess is really there are maybe three of them.
Baseless claim. Look at the UK league tables, Northeastern isn’t remotely close. I went to St Andrews and 4 of my close friends got into T20 schools. I guess they must be the only ones..
Anonymous
10/28/2025 00:21
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's often a pick for private school kids who can't get in somewhere more elite here. A family I knew drew the line at Colgate and when their son didn't get admitted there, they settled on St. Andrews.
It's obviously a good school, but I'm not sure the degree holds as much power if you plan to come back to the US for employment post graduation.
At our HS, Notre Dame is often a pick for private school kids who dont get in somewhere more elite. But.. anytime someone asks about ND, I dont jump in with that fact. Who cares?? My kids are at a top NYC private where every kid who is going to any college not named Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Stanford is going there because they didnt or couldn't get into HYPSM. Does that make Georgetown a bad school - it has over 50% acceptance rate from our HS. How about Carnegie Mellon? What about USC?
you are all SO WEIRD
I would be real interested in learning which high school in the USA uses Notre Dame as a back up. Such a school does not exist.
Regis. Sacred Heart. Marymount. Cistercian. Possibly Strake
One of my classmates transferred from Notre Dame to St Andrews. Ended up having an impressive career in IB and then PE in London.
Right because he was smart enough to get into Notre Dame. Probably had nothing to do with Saint Andrews.
Anonymous
10/28/2025 00:20
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
St Andrews is the Northeastern of the UK. Highly overrated and totally lacking in real prestige. The only USA high school graduates who turn down USA top 20s to attend are the ones on this thread or their mothers. And they pop up over and over and over again. My guess is really there are maybe three of them.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 23:47
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's often a pick for private school kids who can't get in somewhere more elite here. A family I knew drew the line at Colgate and when their son didn't get admitted there, they settled on St. Andrews.
It's obviously a good school, but I'm not sure the degree holds as much power if you plan to come back to the US for employment post graduation.
At our HS, Notre Dame is often a pick for private school kids who dont get in somewhere more elite. But.. anytime someone asks about ND, I dont jump in with that fact. Who cares?? My kids are at a top NYC private where every kid who is going to any college not named Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Stanford is going there because they didnt or couldn't get into HYPSM. Does that make Georgetown a bad school - it has over 50% acceptance rate from our HS. How about Carnegie Mellon? What about USC?
you are all SO WEIRD
I would be real interested in learning which high school in the USA uses Notre Dame as a back up. Such a school does not exist.
Regis. Sacred Heart. Marymount. Cistercian. Possibly Strake
One of my classmates transferred from Notre Dame to St Andrews. Ended up having an impressive career in IB and then PE in London.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 20:25
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's often a pick for private school kids who can't get in somewhere more elite here. A family I knew drew the line at Colgate and when their son didn't get admitted there, they settled on St. Andrews.
It's obviously a good school, but I'm not sure the degree holds as much power if you plan to come back to the US for employment post graduation.
At our HS, Notre Dame is often a pick for private school kids who dont get in somewhere more elite. But.. anytime someone asks about ND, I dont jump in with that fact. Who cares?? My kids are at a top NYC private where every kid who is going to any college not named Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Stanford is going there because they didnt or couldn't get into HYPSM. Does that make Georgetown a bad school - it has over 50% acceptance rate from our HS. How about Carnegie Mellon? What about USC?
you are all SO WEIRD
I would be real interested in learning which high school in the USA uses Notre Dame as a back up. Such a school does not exist.
Regis. Sacred Heart. Marymount. Cistercian. Possibly Strake
Anonymous
10/27/2025 20:17
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People in the UK literally attacked the residences of migrants, and the only speech being suppressed is anti-Zionist speech, especially when it seeks to hold the perpetrators of a genocide, including the UK government, accountable.
A check of the BBC website confirms the above. There is a huge anti-migrant sentiment and endless complaints about illegal immigrants crossing the channel to the UK with fake asylum claims.
Though, to be fair, they also suppress Christians quoting the bible and preaching in public, but quoting the Quran and proselytizing for Islam is not suppressed. It is a very odd place just now.
ALL true. The PO is misguided about politics in The UK. My DS has been at Oxford for four years and very much involved in politics and the Oxford Union. Free speech does not exist there as it does here and that should be of concern to US parents. You cannot say and do anything you like- you have to know the rules and what activities might get you put on lists and deported. The immigration problem may not be discussed in PP’s views because the UK has lost that battle. Walk around London or Manchester and see. The economy is in serious ruin. Even if you wanted to stay after graduation (which you cannot because of visa issues), you don’t want to because of low pay, high costs. And socialized medicine is a nightmare.
What activities do you think would get an international student deported?
Simple: Google free speech reporting UK deportation
Anonymous
10/27/2025 19:12
Subject: Re:How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Too many Hogwarts fantasies
Most like Ravenclaw.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 19:04
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's often a pick for private school kids who can't get in somewhere more elite here. A family I knew drew the line at Colgate and when their son didn't get admitted there, they settled on St. Andrews.
It's obviously a good school, but I'm not sure the degree holds as much power if you plan to come back to the US for employment post graduation.
At our HS, Notre Dame is often a pick for private school kids who dont get in somewhere more elite. But.. anytime someone asks about ND, I dont jump in with that fact. Who cares?? My kids are at a top NYC private where every kid who is going to any college not named Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Stanford is going there because they didnt or couldn't get into HYPSM. Does that make Georgetown a bad school - it has over 50% acceptance rate from our HS. How about Carnegie Mellon? What about USC?
you are all SO WEIRD
I would be real interested in learning which high school in the USA uses Notre Dame as a back up. Such a school does not exist.
Anonymous
10/27/2025 17:22
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People in the UK literally attacked the residences of migrants, and the only speech being suppressed is anti-Zionist speech, especially when it seeks to hold the perpetrators of a genocide, including the UK government, accountable.
A check of the BBC website confirms the above. There is a huge anti-migrant sentiment and endless complaints about illegal immigrants crossing the channel to the UK with fake asylum claims.
Though, to be fair, they also suppress Christians quoting the bible and preaching in public, but quoting the Quran and proselytizing for Islam is not suppressed. It is a very odd place just now.
ALL true. The PO is misguided about politics in The UK. My DS has been at Oxford for four years and very much involved in politics and the Oxford Union. Free speech does not exist there as it does here and that should be of concern to US parents. You cannot say and do anything you like- you have to know the rules and what activities might get you put on lists and deported. The immigration problem may not be discussed in PP’s views because the UK has lost that battle. Walk around London or Manchester and see. The economy is in serious ruin. Even if you wanted to stay after graduation (which you cannot because of visa issues), you don’t want to because of low pay, high costs. And socialized medicine is a nightmare.
What activities do you think would get an international student deported?
Anonymous
10/27/2025 17:15
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just got back from a tour. Heavily white and Asian. Super remote and hard to get to. DC loved the campus but is going to pass largely due to location.
This has been discussed before.
It is not super remote & not hard to get to.
Says you. We all felt differently as we spent 3 hours (round trip) on a train to and from Edinburgh. It’s literally in the middle of nowhere. The campus is lovely, though.
St Andrews shuttle is 90 minutes door to door Edinburg airport to St Andrews.
I’m guessing that math is not your strong suit. 3 hours round trip = 90 minutes each way. Did you study at St Andrew’s?
Wow, what an ass.
BTW, it’s St. Andrews.
You would be hard pressed to find many people who would describe 1.5 hrs to a capital city and international airport as “super remote”.
Sounds like it’s not your cup of tea; phew!
Anonymous
10/27/2025 00:19
Subject: How did St. Andrew's become such a big draw for Americans?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Just got back from a tour. Heavily white and Asian. Super remote and hard to get to. DC loved the campus but is going to pass largely due to location.
This has been discussed before.
It is not super remote & not hard to get to.
Says you. We all felt differently as we spent 3 hours (round trip) on a train to and from Edinburgh. It’s literally in the middle of nowhere. The campus is lovely, though.
St Andrews shuttle is 90 minutes door to door Edinburg airport to St Andrews.
I’m guessing that math is not your strong suit. 3 hours round trip = 90 minutes each way. Did you study at St Andrew’s?