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The University of Cambridge has been particularly blunt about "the possible mismatch between the broad liberal arts curriculum of the North American high school and the specialist emphasis of British degree courses." In a recent year, Cambridge accepted only three students from U.S. high schools. The University of Oxford does offer a glimmer of hope for a few superachievers; Oxford considers American students who graduate in the top 2% of their class, and in a recent year, they enrolled about thirty Americans. Even so, the odds of admission to Oxford are lower than at any college in the U.S., including Harvard. The vast majority of American undergrads at both Oxford and Cambridge are there for a second bachelor's degree after earning one from an American institution.
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<p>Don't know where you are getting these bizarre stats from. Making them up on the spot? There are about 800 Americans at Oxford, about 700 at Cambridge. The vast majority are graduate students but there is still way more than 3 among the undergrads. More like 40. The chances of a UK student getting in are 1 in 5 and it's slightly less for internationals. Most UK schools have lots of internationals because this is how they make your money. if you can pay you will get in automatically to most of them outside the top 5 or 6. they need you to subsidise the undergrads. </p>
<p>yes, you can only apply to Oxford or Cambridge in any one year.</p>
<p>Scotland higher education is NOT exactly like a US degree. yes, there is some degree of choice if the first year, but very small compared to US schools. After that you have to specialise and there is no multiple changing of majors. Generally a Scottish High School education is still at lot more specialised than the US.</p>