[sabraham]

That said, I'm American, went to Oxford and am now at Cambridge, and I can assure you that most Humanities graduates are shockingly innumerate--I seriously doubt most Arts students given the Math SAT would be able to do more than shake a stick at it. The best evidence is probably in PPE; the only people who stick with E(conomics) did Math/s at A-level. The system doesn't encourage it. You do your 3-5 A-levels, and people tend to focus on the Arts or the Sciences, with little to no overlap.

Also, I was never offered sherry at a tutorial, but I did have friends studying English who were offered wine~

On a related note, this is a good summary of the differences between English vs American values/elite educations: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/apr/23/whats-better-o...