<p>gprime- that’s not true of any of the universities debater09 mentions here. Places at her choices are limited, and there are many more overseas applicants from all over the world with fees and stellar records in hand than there are places for. If you search through her universities’ statistics pages, you will see that admissions statistics are no lower for international degree candidates than for UK candidates. For visiting students on a semester abroad or a year abroad, it might be easier, but then UCL and the others are not awarding them a degree, and the visiting students are not sitting the regular exams, etc. </p>
<p>debater09- for the Republic of Ireland and for France, you have to write the university in which you are interested and ask about application procedures. AFAIK it’s unlikely that you will be considered for the Sorbonne, except possibly as a visiting student- Continental universities accept many thousands of visiting students, but almost all of them are visiting as part of the European Commision’s Socrates/Erasmus program, a vast program designed to foster mobility in higher education. All EU countries are involved in this, but you wiould need to be a citizen of a member state to participate in Erasmus/Socrates. </p>
<p>[EUROPA</a> - Education and Training - EUROPA - Education and training: home page](<a href=“http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.html]EUROPA”>http://ec.europa.eu/education/index_en.html)</p>
<p>BTW you will need to be fluent in French.</p>
<p>You might look at the American University in Paris, but it’s not part of the French system- it is what it says on the label, and “American University” comes first, then secondly, “Paris”. Also, UK universities are expensive, particularly for the sciences (yes they do have differential fees, unfortunately) but AUP is expensive out the wazoo.</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to The American University of Paris](<a href=“http://www.aup.fr/]Welcome”>http://www.aup.fr/)</p>
<p>Finally, for fees: as an international undergraduate, you won’t be eligible for scholarship money. Stafford loans are transferable, and you will be entitled to work up to 20 hours per week in the UK if you are a full time student there for at least six months; you will also be eligible for free treatment and heavily subsidized pharmaceuticals under the UK National Health Service if you are a full time student for more than six months. Here’s a link from my university’s tuition and fees page so that you may see an example- also note the differential fees Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Englineering, Architecture, Medicine, etc.</p>
<p><a href=“UCL Students | Students - UCL – University College London”>UCL Students | Students - UCL – University College London;
<p>I hope these posts have been in the “helpful” category and not in the “snide yet slightly aggrieved because of the parlous state of the world economy and the decline of the relative position of the United States” category.</p>
<p>Please PM me or post here if you have any more questions. I love going to uni in London and I love UCL.</p>