<p>I’m about to start my AS in the UK, so I may be ‘inexperienced’ when it comes to uni debates but, I have a few friends in both Oxford and Cambridge, a very good friend who’s going to Harvard next yea, friends at UCL, LSE, and Columbia and a sister at Nottingham so I think that might just make me qualified enough to comment on the subject at hand.</p>
<p>I’ll start by saying that the English and American school systems are VERY different almost impossible to compare, I know because I live in New York but attend boarding school in England. This may be news to some of you but among both my English and American friends (most of whom attend small private schools) the impression is that the English system is much harder than the American one, I’ve always thought of that as true even when looking at unis </p>
<p>-With the exception of Harvard (which is undeniably the best University on the planet)</p>
<p>The majority of my schoolmates that choose to go to American unis do so with a popular ‘myth’ in mind:</p>
<p>'If you’ve done your A levels first year of American uni is a piece of cake, you can just chill ‘till second year’</p>
<p>Americans may have standardized testing, more leeway when it comes to switching courses and more hype around their top unis, but that definitely does not make them any better.</p>
<p>And whoever is being mislead by comments about admission into Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL or Imperial being easy. It’s anything but. All of my guidance counselors have told me there’s more chance of me getting into Oxbridge than LSE because of the amount of candidates that apply to LSE and the limited space.</p>
<p>I’m applying to both Brown and UCL next year and I’m pretty sure Brown’s more likely to take me than UCL.</p>