<p>Herumar: on the other hand, in general, it would only take 3 years to finish an undergrad program in the UK, and there’s some flexibility in choosing modules, in case you want to divert a little bit form your major. I surmise someone who’s been interested to study English all her life would all of a sudden be interested be a mathematician or engineer. If the OP’s daughter would dislike English in the middle of her 3-year program, I’d suspect the new interest wouldn’t be far from her first interest. </p>
<p>Igloo: I guess you’re talking about applicants with lacking requirements, which I supposed your D isn’t affected by such ruling. American applicants may submit SAT II in lieu of A-Levels, I guess. When I applied a decade ago, I submitted IB, as in, International Baccalaureate. I’m not so sure anymore of the present requirements. But I guess there’s someone on this forum that you could ask that about to – cupcake. Advise your D to be extra careful about applying to Warwick. It’s a tough uni to get into - something like 1 place for every 10 or 12 applicants. Anyway, she should be allowed to apply to 5 universities. And if I were your D, I’d take something like this:</p>
<p>Herunar, I am hoping majoring in english is pretty broad. What do you think?</p>
<p>RML, Thank you for the list. Would you suggest Cambridge instead of Oxford? She’s had all AP courses so far. I am assuming they are equivalent to A-level></p>
<p>Igloo, in reality, there’s very little that differentiates Cambridge to Oxford and vice versa in terms of teaching quality. They’re like Harvard and Yale. Where they differ is in topographic location. One is a bigger university town (Oxford) and the other is smaller. The bigger town is hilly thus is harder to use bicycle. The bigger town has smaller bodies of water (River Cam is bigger and longer than both River Thames and River Cherwell.) lol The bigger university town has many more American students too. But personally, the smaller university town is more beautiful and stronger for physical science, engineering, economics and mathematics. Both are top schools for European royalties. You can’t go wrong on either. Let her choose where she thinks she likes to be in in the next 3 years of her life.</p>
<p>Take note that each college at both universities offer different kinds of experience too.</p>
<p>Igloo, you’re correct. Cambridge is stronger in sciences. (I referred Cambridge as the smaller town on post #23.) It has stronger engineering, medicine, mathematics and economics programs too. But Cambridge is also quite strong in social sciences and humanities. Biases aside, Oxford has a slightly stronger law program. Its PPE is quite strong too. I have no idea about the music program at both universities (since I’m not into that) but the music scene at both university towns is prolific, as there are plenty of pubs and places where you can go to to listen live music.</p>
<p>Sounds great. Thank you for the generous help. If you can think of anything else we should know about applying to a UK college, I would greatly appreciate if you could share. We are hoping to travel to Britain to visit campuses. Thank you.</p>
<p>^ You’ll fall in love with Cambridge I promise. It’s a beautiful university town. It’s enchanting. It’s majestic. And lots of pretty cool, extremely smart students. </p>
<p>Please do visit all the universities I mentioned. Many students who can’t hack Oxbridge and don’t want to be in London would be interested in Bristol and Durham. Warwick is pretty much like an American school - campus uni, self-contained, glass plate architecture, modern, etc, etc. However, it is academically strong in almost all major fields. UCL and LSE are great London universities are also worth considering. Good luck!</p>
<p>RML, you did not mention York, Edinburgh, KCL and St Andrews, which are far better school’s in Languages (since her daughter wants to study English) than Warwick and LSE.</p>
<p>I applied and was accepted to St Andrews, and believe that it is strong in English. If she can get in (likely…the only other person to apply from my school was rejected from our two state schools to which it is really not that hard to get in from our best-in-the-state high school. Although he’s not dumb, as he ended up matriculating at Cal.) and you can pay, it’s probably one of the better non-Oxbridge options. Its ranking varies widely, though, from 3rd or 4th in the UK to 50th!!! Don’t know anything about the various credibilities of the ranking sources I saw, though.</p>
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