[swarnie]

By that justification you can skip the French/German stick with English and study at better universities in the UK.

Its not free but $25k a year for four years sure beats that 300-400k estimate.

[dmichulke]

In principal, yes.

As to my book,

- I'm not sure whether 1500$ is good enough in London

- you'll skip the foreign language learning (a time-wise plus AND a minus in terms of culture and, possibly, open-mindedness)

- we're still talking 100k$ of difference for a few ranks higher (top 10 instead of top 30 among maybe 500 good ones)