Hey
I have been reading this forum for some time but never cared to register.
I have read a little about EBS now and I though, as a student in that school, I'd give an inside view.
So the first thing, will sound silly but most of what you heard is true to some extend.
-Yes studying in one of the Royal park is incredible, even though finding a flat closeby is... expensive to say the least.
-Yes many of the people there are very rich, and you can find quite a few spoilled idiots, but you will also meet a lot of great people from everywhere around the world.
-Also having so many people from rich family you do make great contacts, and that doesn't prevent to make great friends either.
-Only problem is that if you are not as rich as them... it's hard to follow them when they go out, or travel. But it's not that big of a deal.
-The requierments are low compared to some other, but from talking to people a lot of them had pretty good grades, many with IBs like I did for example.
-About drugs... well yes, they are around and quite present. But it's limited to some groups in the school and you can have no contacts with them at all if you don't want to.
As for more good points, well I need to make some publicity don't I,
-The year abroad is quite an amazing experience (I personally spent a year in China and loved it).
-We have good teachers, we have some bad one like everywhere, but overall I really enjoyed my classes. And being such a small university you can get to them much more easily.
Hum... I am not sure what else I could say really but if you have any more questions you can just ask them or pm me and I'll be glad to answer.
I hoped this helped at least a bit!
T.