Thinking of studying in America?

 

"You have personal confidence and a healthy dose of independence. You value breadth at the outset, you are undaunted by hard work and regular grade assessments, and what you know of American life attracts you."

If so, then choosing to study in America might well be the fascinating alternative to the UK for which you're looking. Uni in the USA : the UK Guide to US Universities offers an excellent introduction, covering all aspects of higher education in the USA. You'll also find an exhaustive links page that'll help you answer anything else you can possibly think of asking.

Think you'll need Uni in the USA

Unravels the mysteries explains:

• how British students CAN afford to go, regardless of their educational background or economic status
• the cultural differences
• the challenges
• how to start the application process

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. At any of the better US universities you should expect to get 18 hours a week of lectures and tutorials, to have them quickly marked and returned to you, and to find that you are frequently in conversation with the first-rate intellectuals who are teaching you. And if you want to keep your education broad, and are not ready to narrow your range of subjects or to declare yourself set on a firm career path, American liberal arts degree courses may have a particular attraction for you.

Uni in the USA is written by an Englishwoman at Harvard, with the help of fellow exiles at the top two dozen US universities. She:

• describes with great clarity and humour the experiences that you should expect if you venture west
• the qualities of the universities that you might consider
• answers all the questions that you might have about the American university system: who to see, what to ask and when to do it by.

Anthony Nemecek, director of the educational advisory service of the US-UK Fulbright Commission, contributes to the general advice sections of the book, so that you can rely on it for accurate advice about all the hurdles which you need to leap to make it to the USA.

Thousands of us make it to US universities every year and, as Stephen Baldock (formerly High Master of St Paul's) says in his introduction, he has known few, if any, pupils who have regretted it.

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