As a product of Britain’s elite private school system, Sophie Boehler was groomed to pursue the prestige of an Oxford or Cambridge education.
When she was unsuccessful at getting in, instead of choosing another U.K. school, the 20-year-old from London looked farther abroad to Montreal’s McGill University.
In hindsight, she said, it was the best place she could have wound up.
“I wanted to use university as a springboard to trying out different things, and that was just something I didn’t see as an option in the U.K.,” Boehler said, noting it might not have been possible to get the course combinations she was
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