Just curious, is anyone going to consider to apply?
I'd love to go to Cambridge, MIT or Caltech for my undergraduate degree, but it'd be way too expensive because of the lack of scholarships for international undergraduates. On top of that, it's also really hard to gain entrance to MIT as an international student - you pretty much need to be on the national team for one of the sciences/maths (or win a lot of other major prizes), and simply looking at the number of students eligible for selection, at the moment I only have a 5/24 chance of going to the IPhO and a 8/24 (=1/3) chance of attending APhO (provided that Australia sends a team).
I guess I'll just go there for a postgraduate degree *fingers crossed to get in*.
There's no real point for undergrad - US universities in particular aren't great for undergrad, as like Melbourne they have a breadth-styled education, which makes it difficult to do as much advanced subjects in one area.
And first-class honours should get you in to pretty much any university, for Masters at least - some (mostly American) unis require a Masters before PhD, as they don't really have honours there.
It's still, like, 40,000 pounds or something of that order.
Less, I think. I looked up the Cambridge prices for a year, and all up it was about 23,000 pounds or something. Either way, still ridiculously expensive. Of course, there are plenty of scholarships out there that cover some or all of that.