Curious About International Institutions

b_r_um
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:50:35 +0000

Why do you want to pursue your undergraduate degree abroad anyway?

You’d arguably receive a better education at a good-but-not-great American university than at a good-but-not-great foreign university. For example, one of the main obstacle that European students face when they want to apply to graduate school in the US are letters of recommendations; European professors don’t interact with undergraduate students (it’s considered a ‘waste of their time’). If you appreciate flexibility in choosing your courses, foreign universities aren’t for you either.

Unless you actually intend to emigrate to another country, you are way better off going to college in the US.