Uni in the USA is a guide to US universities for British students from The Good Schools Guide. Uni in the USA explains how to apply to American unversities. Look at the USA, not only does this give you an extra chance of getting to a top-ranking university, but once you start looking at what is on offer over the Atlantic you will realise how much damage years of financial deprivation have done to UK undergraduate courses.

As UK youngsters venture overseas, so a good number of overseas students choose to spend their gap-year in the UK. Companies vary in their competency and expertise and naturally, much depends on how you want to spend the year. Several of the sites listed on Gap Year Links may help but two organisations in particular will help with placing overseas students in UK schools - as 'gappies' - for their gap year.

If your child has a pleasing academic record at home, there are only two further criteria that bear on his or her acceptance to a good British boarding school: English-speaking ability and timing.