<p>How prestigious is the University of Warwick? Both in the UK and internationally. What schools would it approximately rank among in comparison to US schools? Would it be on the level of HYPMS? Top privates? Top publics? Top 50, top 100 US schools? How competitive is their admission and how well is it received by its peers?</p>
<p>I'm in the US and it's not that I'm planning on going to Warwick, it's just curiosity that's all.</p>
<p>Warwick would not be on par with HYPMS. I don't think it even really enjoys a reputation as a top ten school in the UK...</p>
<p>The go-to British schools are usually considered to be Cambridge, Oxford, and St. Andrews. Those are the ones most commonly chosen by American students.</p>
<p>While everyone's talking about UK schools, does anyone know anything about the University of Sussex? I'm planning on applying there.</p>
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<p>Besides the universities you mentioned above, I'd suggest looking at Imperial College London for engineering, science or medicine, and the London School of Economics for social and politicial sciences, economics, and law.</p>
<p>If you wish to apply to the University of Cambridge, keep in mind that, according to this site, out of 3,000 students admitted by the Cambridge colleges last year, only six were American ! The problem is not that American kids are not smart enough, but rather that an American High School education is not normally considered a sufficient qualification for enrollment in European universities. </p>
<p>In particular, if you want to study science or engineering at Cambridge, in addition to the usual high GPA and SAT scores, at least 3 math/science AP exams with scores of 5/5/5 will be required. Be also prepared to take additional written tests and answer technical questions when you show up for admission interviews with college tutors.</p>
<p>LSE is almost as hard to get into as Cambridge and Oxford.</p>
<p>Edinburgh would be much more reasonable for most kids.</p>
<p>Can somebody please answer my question though? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I did. Scroll up.</p>
<p>One listing I found actually placed Warwick 5th for UK schools. Another placed in 7th. Another 10th. But it's not as desirable as Cambridge or Oxford.</p>
<p>And it would still be harder to get into than most top 50 US privates because UK schools admit based largely on AP scores. And they admit very few US kids.</p>
<p>*Learn to use Google. Don't be lazy.</p>
<p>That's not what I mean, I was looking for an abstract type of comparison where if a Warwick admitted student were to grow up here in the US which means going through the US education system rather than the UK system, what kind of school would he/she most likely be admitted into.</p>
<p>I did as much research as I possibly can but questions like mine are rarely discussed therefore I turned and tried to get an estimation from posters here who might have enough experience to make an assumption.</p>
<p>It's quite insulting to assume that I am lazy simply because you did not understand the nature of my question.</p>
<p>P.S. I also know that OxBridge, LSE and Imperial are the top tier in the UK postsecondary system and is what American students aspire to get into, but the fact remains that it simply doesn't have anything to do with my question.</p>
<p>“Warwick would not be on par with HYPMS. I don’t think it even really enjoys a reputation as a top ten school in the UK…”</p>
<p>well you obviosly don’t know very much about the british higher education system then - if you look on the british equivaent to this website (the student room .co.uk) then you’ll see that warwick enjoys a reputation as a top 6 university along with oxbridge, imperial, lse and ucl. it gets tons of people into the top london jobs (eg investment banking) every year, and it’s reputation is growing very fast still.</p>
<p>“The go-to British schools are usually considered to be Cambridge, Oxford, and St. Andrews. Those are the ones most commonly chosen by American students.”</p>
<p>oxbridge are great, but st andrews just have a good marketing team - they’re no better than places like durham, bristol and nottingham in the UK</p>