You have to understand that the current chain of contempt in the study abroad circle is not based on the school's world ranking and academic reputation, but on the difficulty of admission. Look at how Australian universities are being scolded now because the barriers to entry are getting lower and lower.
Except for Oxbridge and LSE, the difficulty of admission to British undergraduate programs is indeed lower, so they are naturally looked down upon by American universities. You see, there is a rumor in the American circles that Oxbridge is not as good as the top 20 Americans. How did this standard come about? Is the academics at Oxbridge really inferior to Penn? No, it's because the admission difficulty of Oxbridge is equivalent to the top 20 in the United States, so its status in the world has also become the top 20.
UC’s reputation has become worse and worse in recent years. Is it because UC’s teaching has become worse and worse? No, it's because the enrollment expansion in recent years and the decrease in admission difficulty have directly affected its status in the world.
PS: Understanding this contempt chain rule will help you understand many interesting phenomena on Zhihu. For example, although Cornell is ranked higher than Brown in the world and the United States, it has always been considered to be at the bottom of Ivy. Brother Dawei is famous but its statistics department has been criticized.
Many people are unwilling to admit it, but the transforming and screening effects of GRE/GMAT/LSAT on people are especially obvious when there are more people and they become groups.
Whether the members of the study-abroad party who have never killed G voluntarily gave up, were afraid of difficulties, or decided to study abroad on a temporary basis and had no time to prepare, the overall result is that compared with the study-abroad party who had killed G, The life plan is not so clear, the execution ability is slightly poor, and the tendency to avoid problems is stronger.
Every student studying abroad knows how many people go to countries such as Britain, Australia, Canada, and France because they don’t have to kill chickens. There is no need to jump out and say "I am because of XXXXX" and "GRE is the standard for judging a person. It is too simple and crude..." Pay attention to one word: group.
It is necessary to understand what the judgment is based on: Harbin Institute of Technology college students as a whole are not as good as Tsinghua University. The difference caused by a few ten points difference in the college entrance examination is a qualitative difference in a group of hundreds of thousands of people. But if you look at it 1 on 1, there is a high probability that Tsinghua students are not as good as Harbin Institute of Technology students.
Answer from a different direction. In fact, I think there is another reason. The main groups of people who go to study in the UK and the United States are different. Many people who go to the UK are people who have never thought about immigrating. Many people in the United States want to change their destiny by studying abroad, immigrate and get green cards. These people have worked hard since they were young, improving their GPAs, working hard to get to the United States, and then working hard to immigrate. They have big dreams, and many people who study in the UK , especially girls, who mostly want to return to their country to find a stable or good job after finishing their studies, and are not so ambitious or aggressive. Therefore, among the group of international students studying in the UK, even if the one-year master's degree is very tight and tiring, everyone just complains in the group, and they still often post about life, food and travel in their circle of friends, while those studying in the United States like to post about the library late at night to show how much they have paid. Sweat and hard work, this difference in personality and pursuit, I think is an important reason why the study abroad groups in the two countries give people different feelings.
Secondly, some popular articles say that the UK’s admission threshold and schools lack humanistic care. The UK does not take this blame seriously. I will just tell you the facts that I have learned. It is difficult to apply for popular majors such as accounting and finance. The top 10 schools in the UK for accounting and finance only accept 211, but the United States attaches great importance to PS. I know a lot of people from both sides of the country, and even people with different backgrounds can apply. Prestigious school. A domestic college classmate with a similar background to me is studying finance in the United States. The class is basically made up of Chinese people and some crooks who are said to be stupid. Many of her Chinese classmates are from not-so-good schools. I am studying accounting and finance in the UK. , the class is basically all Chinese, but most of them come from 985, 211 colleges and universities with good domestic backgrounds. Many of them have completed CFA Level 1 and ACCA, and GMAT700. The majority of the students in the class are Europeans. Basically, they are masters of cheating, which greatly frustrated me who originally thought that I could get distinction in minutes when I came to the UK.
In addition, those who say that British education is money-making and cannot educate people and does not have scholarships. The UK is not lenient at all in offering scholarships to outstanding people. Full scholarships are awarded every minute. And as long as you study hard and study hard, you can basically win a scholarship to study. Bo and foreign exchange opportunities. As for humanistic care, the school gave us a free CFA financial calculator, a 100-pound book purchase card, a 30-pound printing card, free financial times every day, various career lectures every semester, and a recruitment information reminder email every day on the first day of school. , one-on-one interview coaching, one-on-one CV modification, I would say writing a CV, creating LinkedIn, writing a career plan, and taking an investment banking online test. These account for 5 of the total score. In addition, there are free writing classes and speaking classes every week. There are all kinds of balabala that I am too lazy to participate in and you are too lazy to know about the humanistic care:).
Finally, the most common question asked by classmates and friends before and after the respondent came to the UK was "Why did you go to the UK instead of the United States?" The respondent was often embarrassed by this question. It was really I very much hope that Chinese people can look at the matter of studying abroad in a calm manner. I deeply believe that everyone makes choices based on their own ideas and reasons. Only the person involved knows the difficulty of studying in a foreign country and the ups and downs of life. Why do you have to jump out and criticize others? Didn’t we mention the little thing that you don’t have to write a graduation thesis when studying in the United States? You graduated a few months earlier than us?
Summary: Learn your own lessons well, are you done yet? Are you ready for the test? Are you better than before you came to study abroad? Don't stand at the top of the chain of contempt every day and look at where others go to study abroad and use this to prove your excellence, okay?