Originally Posted by ultramarina
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Her parents are quite comfortable ($200K+ income, own properties, sizable inheritance, etc) but they had a hard time keeping up with her travel expenses. They worried a lot about what she was up to as she went clubbing in London, shopping in Paris, skiing in Switzerland, and sailing in Greece.

Yikes. Yeah, see--my kids are not going to be prepared for this sort of thing culturally or financially. It's an issue. I want them to be go somewhere where there are a lot of social options that aren't about this.


Yes - but if most of the US students abroad are UMC or UC (at least where the poster above stated), would not it be a valuable experience to acquaint oneself more with non-US students (majority of whom would probably be neither UMC nor UC, because higher education in EU/UK is free or very cheap for many students, with college admissions based on 'academic merit' only)?

Financially, it looks like UK college tuition (for foreigners: $23k) is half of US private college tuition (and lower than UC berkeley out-of-state tuition of $35k). Of course, a decent state university *in the state that you lived continuously for the last several years* may be better financially - if one is lucky to have such a choice.