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Originally posted by 33girl:The USA is way bigger than the UK. People are looking for a smaller group to belong to so they can stand out.
Also, what is the admissions system like there? pardon me if I butcher this, but aren't you somewhat constrained by test scores as to where you can apply and go? I mean, even if I bombed my SAT's I can still apply to Harvard if I want to. They can throw my app in the trash and laugh hard, but I can apply there. What I am trying to say is you choose the school, it doesn't choose you.
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You can apply to any university you feel like here too. You get your UCAS form (UCAS is kinda like a centralised mailing system for unioversity applications. You list all the universities you wanna apply to on there (6 max I think each year). Then they send that to your universities and you're notified of acceptance (conditional on pendng results or unconditional) or rejection. So you choose which schools make a decision on you, but like your example if I apply to Cambridge without Cambridge level results... then they can throw my app in the trash. 'Course, since you get a limited number of choices in each academic session, wasting choices on Harvard level institutions where you don't have a snowball's chance in hell is silly
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The USA is way bigger but many school sizes are the same: 20 thousand, thirty thousand students is widespread here; I'm aware the USA (UCF for example) goes over and above that though.