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cupcake, You are misinterpreting the data. They only accepted 3 students a few years as undergraduates directly out of high school.
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<p>What data? You don't appear to have any. Where are these imaginary stats from? Even without admitted undergrads, there are dozens of US study abroad students at Oxford. If these people don't exist, how come I know them?</p>
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karan, no one told me. I'm British, and I study in Britain. That's how it is. I'm not saying St Andrews isn't a good university. I'm saying it's a backup university for people who apply to Oxbridge, and that the student population there tends to come from wealthy backgrounds. Sorry if you don't like it!
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<p>ITA with Laylah. St Andrews, Bristol and Durham are very well known as "Oxbridge reject" schools. Good universities but not the top so good students apply to them as a back up. St Andrews and Durham are both old and in small towns so I think those who would like to live in Oxford or Cambridge would also like these places. Effectively they're like "safety schools" as the term is used on this board. Bristol is pretty famous for deciding to reject people who got into Oxbridge (I see their point. Very few would choose Bristol over Oxbruidge so it's a waste of admin) and this caused an outcry in the British press. Google it. Pre-Prince William no-one had ever heard of St Andrews. Now they get so many American applications they publish their own special application form. How can this NOT be due to the prince?</p>