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...much more stimulating academic environment." Regaled with tales about Trinity College Dublin by some Irish students working at Myrtle Beach, S.C., on summer visas, he decided that he was going to do "whatever it took to get into the college." He bettered his SAT scores, even moved to Ireland for a few months to test the waters. Now in his first year at Trinity, he is delighted to be receiving "an Ivy League education for about half the price...
Cost may be only one factor that is behind a growing move among young Americans to seek their college degrees in Canada, England and Ireland, where the education is first rate and, since English is spoken, understandable. Now, with the cost of an Ivy League education well past the $30,000-a-year mark, the sticker prices abroad are more attractive than ever. An American college student in Canada might spend, on average, U.S.$10,000 for tuition and living expenses; in England, $17,000; and in Ireland, around $14,000. In the past several years, between...
...Ireland, of course, has its own special chemistry. Domenica Alioto, 18, chose Trinity College Dublin because "none of the American schools I applied to really excited me the way Trinity did." The excitement is apparently catching: the number of all American students in Ireland, where there are only nine universities, has doubled in the past four years--to 1,160. Some may come to walk the same streets as did Joyce, Yeats, Swift or Wilde, or take in the enchanting architecture and countryside. Ivan Filbi, director of international student affairs at Trinity College Dublin, simply credits the quality...
...England there isn't the same type of community network that American colleges have." "It's hard," says Rachel Polner, "if you do have a serious problem, because you can't just hop on a flight and be home in two hours." Trinity's Filbi warns that in Ireland, "we don't spoon-feed our students." Jessi Hathaway, 18, who left her home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to begin studies at Trinity this year, suggests other Americans plan to bring "an outgoing personality and a sense of adventure" if they plan to survive...
Sturdy is remembering the many experiences she has had at Harvard in planning what she will do after graduation. Harvard has nominated her for the Rhodes scholarship, and she is applying for a Fulbright grant and other fellowships that would enable her to be in England or Ireland next year...