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If you're thinking of applying to St Andrews, you definitely should.
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It's so rewarding. There are so many things you can do here.
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Although it's a small town, the opportunities are completely endless.
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St Andrew's location is stunning.
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A small seaside town on the east coast of Scotland.
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Close enough to places like Edinburgh, and frankly to all of Europe.
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We are connected while also being our own place.
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For me the best thing about St Andrews is the fact that it's such a small town,
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but yet it's got so many different opportunities within it.
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Whether it's the societies or the sports clubs that you can get involved with.
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It's so much more than just academia.
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St Andrews is a fantastic place to study because you get a University that
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has a strong research focus, but it's also a University that really values its teaching.
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We do that through having small class sizes,
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and through, I think, a really, a kind of strong community feel.
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The lecturers are really really helpful.
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There's not this kind of hierarchy or anything
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everyone's really, really friendly and everyone's really trying to help out.
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Why does a person go to University? They want to expand their mind. They want to push
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the boundaries of what they know for a personal level and an academic level.
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It's not just education, it's research. Because they want to go to a place that
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is pushing the frontiers of human knowledge.
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We look for people who are willing to question what they are taught
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and willing to explore their subject in depth.
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We want people who are curious, who are motivated, who want to understand the
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world around them, and and then apply that to make ideally the world a better place.
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The University degree at St Andrews reflects the Scottish degree system.
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Students coming into the first and second year can take subjects outside their intended degree specialisation
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and then specialise in their degree subjects in third, and fourth, and possibly fifth year.
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It just offers opportunity to explore new subjects and it's kind of
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changed my way of thinking.
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It really helped me to just explore different things and try out everything.
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St Andrews has a really big feel.
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You really get to know everyone.
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You see a lot of people that you know and you recognise.
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Hall life plays such a big part in St Andrews.
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Living in halls has such a wonderful atmosphere.
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It is a really tight community.
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You get a lot of different students, you get to meet a lot of different people
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which you normally wouldn't meet.
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We come from very different educational
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backgrounds, so therefore we're all gonna have a different point of view.
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So, you know, you're not gonna have people that agree with you all the time or they're
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gonna pick up on things that you don't necessarily pick up on.
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With a St Andrews degree you can almost do anything because the skills that you learn here
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are attractive to employers.
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Our students go into all kinds of professional careers,
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whether that's the law, whether that's financial services, whether that's
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civil service or government. Many of them also go into further study.
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Our students tend to be in great demand from employers.
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We have companies that see character in graduates.
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The skills that students get here allow our students to be successful at getting jobs and they seem
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to be equipped very well for a wide range of jobs.
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If you're thinking of applying, do it. Absolutely do it.
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It's been one of the best decisions that I've made.
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St Andrews really isn't a place to be afraid of, but going to college is scary,
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because you don't know what you're gonna have when you get there,
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but it's really great here because it's so easy to feel like you have everything.