Word: polner
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Nefra Faltas, 20, a human-biology and philosophy major, could have gone to the University of Virginia as an in-state student three years ago but chose to attend the University of Toronto instead. "It was time," she decided, "to be exposed to something completely different." Rachel Polner, 21, a Denver resident, considered several institutions, including Princeton, but stopped looking at U.S. schools after the University of York in England made her an unconditional offer. She knows England well, having vacationed there during her childhood, and was pleased that she would be allowed to concentrate entirely on her chosen subject...
British universities best suit those who have already decided what they want to learn, because at those schools students take courses in only one subject during their three-year bachelor program. "If you really know what path you want to take in life," observes Polner, now in her final year at York, "then it's a great way to do it." While Oxford student Graef Allen, 20, sometimes misses the art and music electives she might have taken at home, she appreciates Oxford's tutorial system and being able to "do a lot specialized stuff" in her field, biochemistry...
...Britain the entire college experience bears almost no resemblance to an American one. As Cecile Divino, who recently attended the London School of Economics, observes, "In 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...