<p>I’m having a hunch here…</p>
<p>this is a bad question because obviously there are different cirriculums, and obviously some will be better and others be worse, international may be better than public schools though, just my 2 cents</p>
<p>Depends on who you ask. I know many international schools (through secondary school) are better, but you can’t beat U.S. universities (except a few established schools [read: cambridge, oxford, etc.]).</p>
<p>HAHAHA! Are you serious? When I went to Austria, the snobs turned their nsoe up at my (top-ranking) public school and insisted their school was harder. I was there for a year and I can tell you it’s a complete lie.</p>
<p>At home I got tested more, tested more often, more homework, waaaay more time in class (43 hrs/week versus 30~) and just generally more challenging classes.</p>
<p>For colleges, many employers would rather see a Yale degree than a Oxford degree, if that’s what you’re asking. As for the difficulty of foreign colleges, I have no idea but if it’s anything like their high schools then hardly.</p>
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<p>employers generally dont care that much about what college you went to. its how you applied yourself to that college is what matters.</p>
<p>and i went to school in Moscow, Russia and when i came here i was shocked at how much freedom we had and how little work we got assigned. the school i went to in Russia was like bootcamp and very strict, and there were no extracurriculars or sports it was 100% about schoolwork.</p>
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<p>Quote:For colleges, many employers would rather see a Yale degree than a Oxford degree, if that’s what you’re asking.</p>
<p>^ Utter crap i have friends in cambridge, oxford, LSE, wharton and one in yale, all have recieved offers from investment banks largely from Goldman Sachs and my friends at the british schools ie. Cambridge Oxford and LSE get paid more the double, for example one of my friends starting salary after graduating cambridge is 400,000 pounds or close to 1 million dollars, some people that graduate IIT/IIM in India also get the equivalent or many times a little more than half that, whilst in the US most start out with like $120,000 MAX</p>
<p>In response to the initial question, i go to an international schools i have been going all my life cuz i lived in the US (First4 years of my life) and then moved to germany, turkey, england and now India, and more recently since its a really small school I know all my 11th/12thyear SAT scores for my school and they were all in the 85-99 percentile so I dont know how you want to interpret that and though the SAT is no measure or knowledge it must count for some kind of indicator to how good/difficult a school is.</p>
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<p>I was talking about AMERICAN employers, you tool. And it depends on the field. Don’t even say that they prefer Oxford over Harvard because it’s simply not the case. I should know because I actually wanted to go to Oxford and asked around.</p>
<p>okay smartass im sure that you are an employer so that you would know all about that regardless, you prob didnt get into oxford so no need to bash it</p>
<p>dude who gets paid 1,000,000 out of college, i dont care where they’re from.</p>
<p>schools under the french system are much, much harder. </p>
<p>people in my family that have moved here from lebanon (uses french system) skip a grade, always.</p>
<p>It really depends. The typical US high school student generally has an easier time, but for some reason it seems most of us on CC either go to really amazing schools or bring the difficulty upon ourselves.</p>
<p>My impression is (having studied in China and Germany) that Americans have more choices in high school. You can choose to take regular, honors or AP courses. In Germany, for example, you get classified when you’re 10 so only the “brightest” end up at the highest level school (a bit harder than American high schools, roughly equivalent to that plus the first two years of American undergrad… which is why their “undergrad” is only 2 years ;)). Probably why we have those bloody general ed requirements, lol.</p>
<p>Alex</p>