Australia doesn’t really have elite universities (at least in terms of undergraduate admissions) in the same sense as the US. There’s no university in Australia where you can tell people that you went to it and they will be impressed. There’s no university that is hard to get into if, for example, you just want to do a basic arts degree.
That said, I suspect Sydney University would be a pretty good university to target at some point because it’s one of the best universities, if not the best, in terms of (English-language) debating in the world.
Interesting. Good to know. Germany has a similarly weak university hierarchy, with the exception of certain subjects (e.g. Bonn for maths).
Whether or not this is a good thing in other respects (I can see arguments both ways), it seems like it should make EA recruiting harder, in that (a) the most promising students are spread out across a larger number of universities (b) you have less of the “world class university attracting top talent from across the world” effect you do at e.g. Oxford or Harvard.
Which might be an argument for deprioritising university outreach in those countries relative to others. On the other hand both Germany and (especially) Australia seem to be doing very well in terms of EAs-per-capita, so maybe this isn’t that strong an effect.
Australia doesn’t really have elite universities (at least in terms of undergraduate admissions) in the same sense as the US. There’s no university in Australia where you can tell people that you went to it and they will be impressed. There’s no university that is hard to get into if, for example, you just want to do a basic arts degree.
That said, I suspect Sydney University would be a pretty good university to target at some point because it’s one of the best universities, if not the best, in terms of (English-language) debating in the world.
Interesting. Good to know. Germany has a similarly weak university hierarchy, with the exception of certain subjects (e.g. Bonn for maths).
Whether or not this is a good thing in other respects (I can see arguments both ways), it seems like it should make EA recruiting harder, in that (a) the most promising students are spread out across a larger number of universities (b) you have less of the “world class university attracting top talent from across the world” effect you do at e.g. Oxford or Harvard.
Which might be an argument for deprioritising university outreach in those countries relative to others. On the other hand both Germany and (especially) Australia seem to be doing very well in terms of EAs-per-capita, so maybe this isn’t that strong an effect.