Quoting holden caulfield from 10:50, 24th Apr 2006
It genuinely perplexes me that so many JYAs/JSAs come half way across the world only to mix almost exclusively with other JYAs/JASs.
Quoting DrAlex from 13:27, 24th Apr 2006Quoting holden caulfield from 10:50, 24th Apr 2006
It genuinely perplexes me that so many JYAs/JSAs come half way across the world only to mix almost exclusively with other JYAs/JASs.
I guess I can understand if it combats soem homesickness, but it does kind of defeat the purpose.
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Quoting exnihilo from 18:39, 24th Apr 2006
Grandpa will also find that the University had been recruiting American students long before the 90s and they were already a very well established group here by then. As for being a predominantly Scottish university, that really hasn't been the case for many, many decades, and even as a Scot I'm glad of it - one of the things I enjoyed most about St Andrews was the diversity of the student population, I now have friends all over the world thanks to it.
If you went to Glasgow, on the other hand, something in the order of 3/4 of the people you meet will not only be from Scotland but from Glasgow and environs, and it suffers because of it. Other universities are enormously jealous of St Andrews' overseas recruiting success. Oh, and we don't just do it for money; for the umpteenth time, the fees paid by an overseas student are roughly equal to the fees paid by a home student plus the money paid by central government on each student's behalf. In other words, all students generate the same level of income for the university.
So stop saying that!
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