<p>I am an American who hopes to study in Edinburgh University. I am doing a ton of research and still cannot see what kind of dorm/flat/whatever would be best for meeting people. I dont want the best but i want to meet people who will stay in Scotland and are relatively familiar with Scotland. I would like as much information about their way of doing things and their residency information.</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<p>What and where is the best place to stay while attending Edinburgh?</p>
<p>What is the average age in Edinburgh Uni? </p>
<p>What is the average age among freshers?</p>
<p>I know i may sound snobby and a typical college aged American, but is the party life enjoyable?</p>
<p>Are the women beautiful? I dont want to go to a school and spend the next four years and campus days, and my future, not knowing any pretty girls, Im sure you guys must feel the same.</p>
<p>How expensive is it every year, including everything, if you have no financial aid?</p>
<p>What is the best place to stay, on campus, and where to stay if you want to meet cool native Scots and women to hang out?</p>
<p>If there is any additional advice on the college life at Edinburgh Uni, please tell me and id like to know all of your experience attending Edinburgh.</p>
<p>What and where is the best place to stay while attending Edinburgh?
Halls, owned by the University of Edinburgh. As for exactly which halls, I’d suggest consulting The Student Room, which is like the UK version of CC</p>
<p>What is the average age in Edinburgh Uni?
Most people will start their degree between the ages of 17 and 19, and will then be there for four years. However, there will also be some older students.</p>
<p>What is the average age among freshers?
Most will be aged 17 - 19 (the few 17 year olds will be there due to a quirk in the Scottish education system)</p>
<p>I know i may sound snobby and a typical college aged American, but is the party life enjoyable?
I’m not at Edinburgh, but another UK university. However, I’ve always found the party life enjoyable and I’ve never heard any complaints about Edinburgh.</p>
<p>Are the women beautiful? I dont want to go to a school and spend the next four years and campus days, and my future, not knowing any pretty girls, Im sure you guys must feel the same.
Like everywhere else on this planet, there’s a mixture</p>
<p>How expensive is it every year, including everything, if you have no financial aid?
I’d say that you should budget in the region of £8000 per year (which is enough for an adequate, but not extravagant, lifestyle by student standards) + flights home + money for trips around Europe if that’s part of your plans + tuition fees</p>
<p>What is the best place to stay, on campus, and where to stay if you want to meet cool native Scots and women to hang out?
This is definitely a question for The Student Room!</p>
<p>A couple things to remember.</p>
<p>In the UK, you can legally drink at age 18. I am sure this affects the social life of college students.</p>
<p>Beauty is of course in the eye of the beholder. Ethnically Scottish people are on average some of the tallest in the world (but not freakishly tall like the Watusi). Scotland also has the highest percentage of natural redheads anywhere in the world at 13%. (Ireland is second at 10%) And every country outside the United States has a much healthier diet than the United States, no country is as fat as the United States (i.e. no country has a rate of obesity as high as the U.S.)</p>
<p>But of course, a city like Edinburgh is going to be very ethnically mixed, and a university even more so.</p>
<p>Also remember that part of the “fun” of being a student is trying to live very cheaply. Holding social events in rooms that are just too small. Finding inexpensive ideas for dates. The fun comes from being together with a lot of intelligent young people who share your interests, not from having a lavish lifestyle.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
<p>Fees for next school year, £13-17.5k for overseas undergraduate depending on course.
[Undergraduate</a> Fees](<a href=“http://www.docs.sasg.ed.ac.uk/fees/undergraduate_2013-2014.cfm]Undergraduate”>Undergraduate Fees)</p>
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<p>Hey! To answer your questions in terms of student age and student life… I have a couple of friends who have just finished their first year at Edinburgh and loved it. I actually considered going. </p>
<p>The average age of fresher students would be 18 with a few 19 year olds. The ‘party’ life is supposed to be very very good with students going to clubs a couple of times a week at least. </p>
<p>Best dorm; I would recommend one which is large and mainly first years.</p>
<p>There is a lot of misinformation here which should be corrected.</p>
<p>“I’d say that you should budget in the region of £8000 per year (which is enough for an adequate, but not extravagant, lifestyle by student standards)”</p>
<p>The tuition fees for international students start at $20,882.33 annually. You’ll need to add airfare back and forth to the U.S. which can be substantial depending on where you live in the U.S.</p>
<p>“No country is as fat as the United States (i.e. no country has a rate of obesity as high as the U.S.”</p>
<p>Not true.
<a href=“https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/obesity-according-to-the-world-factbook.html[/url]”>https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/obesity-according-to-the-world-factbook.html</a></p>
<p>“Scottish people are on average some of the tallest in the world (but not freakishly tall like the Watusi)”</p>
<p>People in Scotland are around the same average height as those in the U.S. and neither country is in the same ballpark as Holland, Germany, Sweden and similar Nordic countries where the men routinely top 6 feet tall.</p>
<p>If you study in Scotland you will have a great time. Edinburgh University has an excellent reputation. Keep in mind that Scottish degrees (unlike English ones) are typically four years so make sure you have enough money to cover yourself.</p>
<p><em>AlbionGirl</em> - if you read the whole of the paragraph, you’d see that I accounted for that expenditure.</p>
<p>That’s fascinating about the U.S. Obesity rate. Maybe the reason we have dropped is that that table doesn’t include “American Samoa” as part of the United States. Samoans do tend to be HUGE, and I can see how not including them in our average would help us out. (Look, the statistics back up my comment that “Samoans tend to be HUGE”).</p>
<p>But my point is still valid, because the UK does still have a much lower obesity rate than the U.S.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>