@college curious, you sold me on St. Andrews! 
@ChezCurie they are both great schools but if I had to pick it would be St. Andrews! They have won number 1 in the UK for student satisfaction for a lot of years running now! @maroon79 I think my son will feel like your daughter, 4 years will be way too short!!
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@college curious - my daughter loved it so much she is getting her law degree in London!
@maroon79 that is the true problem with St. Andrews. Your child is going to love it so much that they might never come home!! My son now thinks he might want to stay living in the UK.
and if anyone else is still active here, i guess I have some questions:
I’m in at st andrews, yet my parents are concerned that i’ll dislike st andrews, based off of an experience of one of their friends kid…
Do american students transfer out of st andrews a lot?
have your kids/ your personal experiences indicated that americans are generally happy at st andrews?
Did you know of anyone who decided to transfer from StA to an american university? were they able to successfully transfer to good schools?
Is it true that the UK kids at StA, or at least a group of them, simply dont interact with americans? someone has told me this is the case…
Thanks so much for any answers!
Granted, I attended UStA twenty years ago, but I never encountered UK or EU students who shuttered out US students. In fact, three of my UStA friends were in my wedding and remain lifelong friends. That is not data, though. As far as transferring out, I did a JYA and went back on a Fulbright. While there on a JYA, a fellow student from my US university transferred to UStA because she loved it so much (sidenote, she now has a PhD and teaches at USC). My experiences at UStA were extremely positive.
D1 graduated last year. 2 fellow Americans she knew transferred out in their first year one to Georgetown one to UVA. Another 2 decided to stay in St Andrews from the W&M program. Her best friends from St A’s all happened to be UK students. She loved every minute of St A’s and going back in the summer to visit one of her friends who is a postgrad there.
Thanks! These were both really helpful
@elguapo1 @Peruna1998 Can either of you speak to graduate school placements from St Andrews?
If grades are good, grad school placement is excellent.
A friend’s son went to St Andrews and graduated a few years back. Loved his time there. He’s one of those who stayed in the UK afterwards.
Top universities in the US will recognize a good class degree from St Andrews, that with a decent GRE will get you most places. My daughter is currently in grad school at a T20 here in the US.
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^^^Ok so I asked her specifically who went where in her acquaintance group, 2 to Georgetown Law, 1 to Michigan Law, 1 to GW law , 1 to journalism at Columbia and one to Catholic Law. Of her UK mates most ended up in London
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We have friends who have graduated and gone on to Wharton Business school, Duke, masters at Columbia and Harvard Law A friend who is an executive recruiter in New York said she put St Andrews grads resume’s equivalent with Ivy League in US and in some ways finds them even more positive because she feels it shows the person is not afraid to take risk going overseas and also makes them a little different and interesting! Lastly my son has friends who transferred to University of Pennsylvania. He also has a friend who spent a year abroad from Duke and loved St Andrews so much he transferred there.
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My personal experience is skewed. I did a JYA at UStA and graduated from SMU. I “shotgunned” for graduate school. Since I was awarded a UK Fulbright back to UStA in International Relations, I ultimately deferred law school for a year. But out of SMU/UStA, I was accepted into Cambridge (UK) D.Phil (International Relations), Johns Hopkins Ph.D. (International Relations), Yale Law, and Georgetown Law. I ultimately completed an M.Litt (International Studies) at UStA. and J.D. at Georgetown Law. As for my UStA friends, the US citizen did a PhD at USC. The UK citizens continued either at UStA, Edinburgh, or Oxford. Again, this is not data.
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