Choosing Bristol over Warwick& LSE??

surely you mean "go to america" and "hate this country" or are you in prague yet?

Dude, I thought you were applying to Harvard and other American universities? And that you hated the UK?

Just come to America and stop asking silly questions.

I'm applying to both American and British universities (I have to do my A-Levels.. I may as well) and I would prefer London/Oxford to most other unis over here. The idea is to benefit from Britain's one asset, its education, and then get the hell out of here - and if I don't get into a top American university (basically, Harvard) then I'll stick it out here for a few more years.

People get naked in all universities. But I think I can safely say that there is much more eye candy at Bristol than at Imperial.

What do you think of the people at LSE? Are they all foreign, and are they all ugly?

Be that as it may, London is not a proper student city. Students in London, more often than not, are the highly ambitious, driven types who are trying to pretend they've graduated and got that highly-paid job already because they just can't wait.

I won't even pay £3 for a drink.

In all fairness America has more great unis then the UK so you could look into Yale and Stanford you know

rofl:
I haven't seen you around since you and Ace were ripping eachother's throats out over private schooling that was fun you should do it again sometime

I'm applying to both American and British universities (I have to do my A-Levels.. I may as well) and I would prefer London/Oxford to most other unis over here. The idea is to benefit from Britain's one asset, its education, and then get the hell out of here - and if I don't get into a top American university (basically, Harvard) then I'll stick it out here for a few more years.

But I think I can safely say that there is much more eye candy at Bristol than at Imperial.

haha its only asset eh...

Nonetheless, Harvard is extremely competitive. So don't be too disappointed if you don't get in. It's even way, way more competitive than Oxbridge, so don't put all your hopes into that one university! And yes, there are a lot of other really good universities in America. Yale is good for the arts, but not for science. Stanford is good all-around, and I'd say better than Yale. Princeton is "peh." It's really quite overrated since many of its departments are not even nationally ranked in the top 5. And there's also Columbia, etc.

Duke is in the South, in the middle of nowhere by the way...so keep that in mind.

Good luck with your apps. I remember how much of a pain in the ass it was applying to university.

Thanks SlyPie. Oh and disappointment won't be necessary, getting into Harvard will be easy - they'll love me So what do you think of your university - it's quite high on the league tables, how does it rate? Liberal arts as well? Also how many universities am I allowed to apply to?

Thanks SlyPie. Oh and disappointment won't be necessary, getting into Harvard will be easy - they'll love me So what do you think of your university - it's quite high on the league tables, how does it rate? Liberal arts as well? Also how many universities am I allowed to apply to?

Get the eyedrops:

Yeah, just keep up the modesty during interview and I'm sure you'll get in. You might as well walk in with a strut and see how that goes.

Well my university does rank highly--(sigh) probably due to its research and its high-ranking departments-- along with the genius professors. Unfortunately these professors aren't always the best lecturers since some seem to focus on their research. Also my uni is over-crowded with 30,000+ students. I like it though, because it is only costing me $20,000 at the moment per year (which is cheap for an American university) and it really makes you independent because of the class sizes while offering a superb academic experience.The departments are amazing. (Out-of-state applicants can gain California citizenship after a year I believe and pay the lower tuition (from 40,000/year to 20,000/year).

Lectures usually have 200 people or so, maybe slightly less, up to 800, so you don't even have to go to class if you feel like crap, or if you are lethargic. I swear half of the class in my lectures don't even attend, but do self-study. There are discussion classes consisting of 30 people or so, run by graduate student instructors which are taken alongside the lectures. I guess you really need to be self-motivated if you want to attend a large (30,000+) university. Smaller unis give you a more personal atmosphere, if that's what you prefer. It might be easier to get recommendation letters from professors in smaller universities (like LACs) than from large ones.

The liberal arts departments are great. History is ranked 2nd nationally, English 1st, art history 3rd, German 1st , etc. etc. blah blah. The information is on its website. I think that's for graduate rankings, but hey the same faculty teach undergrad.

We have a "liberal arts" education, meaning we take 7 core classes outside our major and 2 upper division courses outside our major. You can also double major at American universities if you desire, which, I don't believe, English ones allow.

I think you can apply to as many universities are you want. I applied to 10, or was it 11. I applied to all of the Universities of California, and then U Washington, and U Michigan- Ann Arbor. I never applied for the privates nor any on the East Coast so I can't give you info regarding them, although I'm doing some research regarding graduate/professional school in privates on the East Coast. (I really don't want to be stuck on the West Coast for another 3 *****ing years...)

All in all, you should make a choice regarding what size of a university you want, what kind of an atmosphere, what your major is, and the region, etc. My opinion, stay away from the damn South.

I know fthat in Bristol, £3 a drink or close to that isn't that uncommon.

We-ell...

I live in Bristol.
I won't pay £3 for a drink.
I go out regularly.
I'm not a lightweight.

And yet somehow, I keep getting pretty darn drunk!

You, my friend, are going to ALL the wrong places.

I'll take your tips onboard for when I'm in Bristol then. Or you can show me around Even better