<p>Hi Portuguese Ninja,</p>
<p>I’m wondering what you mean by you would more likely end up in the UK since you are in need of financial aid when generally a British education is more expensive than a US?</p>
<p>Is it because you are an EU citizen?</p>
<p>A british education is NOT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM more expensive than a US one. here, international fees are £10,000 a year. in the usa, fees are up to $50,000.</p>
<p>Thank you for the site, it was really useful.</p>
<p>I suppose that Portuguese Ninja is Portguese, thus a EU citizen but that is just an assumption. An education in the UK is generally cheaper than that in the US when comparing top-unis in these countries. In fact, much cheaper in most cases. (usually 20-30 thousand pound sterlings/year vs 45-55 US dollars/year)</p>
<p>I guess I would choose an American university, even if it might not be superior academically. Just because of the fact that an American degree is more well-received around the world. (I’m not talking about the Oxbridge ofc) An American degree works well in Europe but a European/British degree might not work as well in the United States. :(</p>
<p>I got into Exeter University, ranked #9 in the UK, and Birmingham, ranked #22. I am instead going to the University of Virginia, ranked #2 in the USA for public universities and #24 overall. Maybe you should consider how the universities you want to apply to actually do correspond.</p>
<p>fyi, hyp are not really pre-professional at all. alot of my friends are there and seriously, I can barely even call it competition. </p>
<p>as for academics, they’re not exactly top of the top either (harvard is decent tho). MIT/Chicago are tops for econ in the US. Lay prestige =/= academic prestige. Of course they’re very good schools, just not the academic powerhouses ppl mistake them to be (esp for undergrad).</p>
<p>^ this is not true. harvard is intense.</p>
<p>The thing is, it doesn’t matter how difficult a school actually is. It just matters how difficult the people reviewing your job/grad school/whatever application think it is.</p>