QUOTE(xenotzu @ Sep 20 2023, 10:47 AM)
A word of warning about Ivy League and Oxbridge universities. My son received similar results and applied to all the Ivy League and Oxbridge universities to read Economics. Despite having a good academic and co-curricula record, being a prefect and so on, he was rejected from everyone of them. I was surprised as with his results, he would have easily entered those universities during my time.
He did some research and found out that in the last two decades or so, with the increase of China students in tertiary institutes overseas, they had pushed the bar up very high. All universities have a foreign student quota (officially or unofficially) and foreign students compete with each other for those limited places. What would have been an easy shoo-in for my son in past decades was now not good enough due to the China students pushing the bar up very high for other foreign students. My son finally ended up reading Economics at Warwick University, a Russel Group university.
I would suggest that you can try for the Ivy League and Oxbridge universities, but hedge your chances by applying to Russel Group universities at the same time. My son received an unconditional offer from Warwick University whilst he was applying to the other universities. With your results, I believe you may receive an unconditional offer too.
And if you are lucky to get into an Ivy League university, majority of them are based in Boston, which is a lovely historic city and one of the safest in USA. Even other Ivy League universities which are outside Boston, tend to be in safe and lovely cities. So don't worry too much about that. My daughter graduated from a university in New York, and despite its reputation, she had an uneventful and interesting student life there.
@xenotzu, What was your daughter's major in the university ?He did some research and found out that in the last two decades or so, with the increase of China students in tertiary institutes overseas, they had pushed the bar up very high. All universities have a foreign student quota (officially or unofficially) and foreign students compete with each other for those limited places. What would have been an easy shoo-in for my son in past decades was now not good enough due to the China students pushing the bar up very high for other foreign students. My son finally ended up reading Economics at Warwick University, a Russel Group university.
I would suggest that you can try for the Ivy League and Oxbridge universities, but hedge your chances by applying to Russel Group universities at the same time. My son received an unconditional offer from Warwick University whilst he was applying to the other universities. With your results, I believe you may receive an unconditional offer too.
And if you are lucky to get into an Ivy League university, majority of them are based in Boston, which is a lovely historic city and one of the safest in USA. Even other Ivy League universities which are outside Boston, tend to be in safe and lovely cities. So don't worry too much about that. My daughter graduated from a university in New York, and despite its reputation, she had an uneventful and interesting student life there.
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