American students head to Germany for free college

Re:American students head to Germany for free college by steveridout on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:02AM (#9311074)

Unless things have changed recently, before getting accepted to one of the top universities in the UK you'll be expected to do an in-person interview.

(I remember having to choose one lecture to study beforehand and I chose Feynman's introduction to Special Relativity. I didn't even know who Feynman was at the time but really enjoyed his book of lectures, and a couple of years later he became one of my heroes after reading "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman")

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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by michaelt on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:30AM (#9311278)

For Oxford and Cambridge there is an in-person interview.

But for any other university, A-level subjects and grades are the only important factor. To take an example, LSE is often the third-ranked university in the country, and they literally have web pages listing grade requirements [1].

Naturally, not everyone has recent UK A-Levels so there's a little flexibility, but the results of standard tests are what drive admissions.

[1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/howToApply/departme...

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