American needs advice for UK study

That’s great, @VickiSoCal. The HL IB is a high, tough standard, and ime lives up to its rep as the best secondary system going.

This recent article in the Guardian suggests that the # of applications for Oxbridge/medical courses have increased:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/26/record-numbers-apply-places-oxbridge-medical-schools-ucas

Most of this increase is from internationals (12% increase) and EU (6% increase) as well as England (7% rise). But it looks like they put a concerted effort into recruiting overseas: