Study Across the Pond

Parents Forum
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<p>Do any parents have experience with this organization? Or with a child matriculating at a UK university?</p>

<p><a href="http://www.studyacrossthepond.com/home.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.studyacrossthepond.com/home.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>My younger d, a HS junior, is being encouraged by her older sister (now married and living in London) to apply to UK universities. My older d has done some research and recommended the Study Across the Pond organization.</p>

<p>I am not certain that this is a good idea for younger d who I think would benefit from a more liberal arts approach. She is interested in engineering but I thought a liberal arts college with a good engineering or Physics department would give her more options.</p>

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<p>This programme only seems to offer access to 15 British universities. But there are about 120ish in total so I think this might be severely limiting to your daughter.</p>

<p>I general, you have to choose a subject when you apply to the UK and you can't change your mind in 99.9% of cases (or you will have to drop out and re-apply). So if unsure of a "major" (A "subject" in the UK), **don't do it **IMHO. People will now start posting about how there is more choise at Scottish univeristies and they are more similar to the US system blagh, blagh. yes, SLIGHTLY in that you can do 3 or 4 subjects in the first year (an extra year - Schools in England, Wales and NI for most subjects run only 3 years courses, Scotland is 4 years but you get an "MA" at the end) but really the choise is nothing like that in the US and a radical change is not possible. Scotland is still more like England that it is like the US.</p>

<p>try <a href="http://www"&gt;www&lt;/a>. the student room .co.uk (remove spaces. links to this page don't work on this board)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ucas.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.ucas.com&lt;/a> is the general application site.</p>

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<p>You don't need an organziation. The UCAS app is simple and easy to do--and your D can apply to six schools at once.</p>