What colleges don't care about extracurriculars?

mountainsoul
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:18:54 +0000

Tealny:

my qualm about Oxbridge was that I’ve read somewhere that they don’t really like taking on American undergraduates - I think because British students specialize to some extent pre-college,

I hadn’t heard that about Oxbridge. It was suggested by some of the more knowledgeable parents at our high school for my pointy S. I got the impression that IB kids demonstrate the requisite depth in coursework and can be successful in gaining admissions. However, looking at the Naviance data for our competitive high school, I see that no students from our school have been accepted to Oxbridge in the past six years. Students tend to have better success with the Scottish universities—especially University of Edinburgh—so looking at Scotland is a good strategy.