Anonymous
07/20/2025 07:03
Subject: High Stat kid, no interests or leadership, where to apply?
I mean, Vancouver and Montreal are two of the best cities in the world, whereas Charlottesville is a cow town and College Park is a dump, but okay.Anonymous wrote:Unless you get a good tuition price, UBC and McGill offer nothing special over UMD/UVA for a US American.Anonymous wrote:Multiple AP 5s
High GPA
Very high SAT
No ECs and you want prestige? Dust off the passport. The following amazing universities have primarily stat-based admissions:
Oxford
Cambridge
University of British Columbia
McGill
University of Sydney
University of Melbourne
And… several others if you start looking around. The American admissions game is silly. Other countries get it right.
Anonymous
07/20/2025 06:58
Subject: High Stat kid, no interests or leadership, where to apply?
Anonymous wrote:Multiple AP 5s
High GPA
Very high SAT
No ECs and you want prestige? Dust off the passport. The following amazing universities have primarily stat-based admissions:
Oxford
Cambridge
University of British Columbia
McGill
University of Sydney
University of Melbourne
And… several others if you start looking around. The American admissions game is silly. Other countries get it right.
Unless you get a good tuition price, UBC and McGill offer nothing special over UMD/UVA for a US American.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 22:17
Subject: High Stat kid, no interests or leadership, where to apply?
Luckily premed students can go to a state school or somewhere with good merit aid and benefit from the less sweaty competition.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Canadian and UK colleges care about academics more than ECs.
For premed students, foreign undergraduate is not a good option.
Anonymous
07/19/2025 22:02
Subject: High Stat kid, no interests or leadership, where to apply?
UK schools. Only stats there.