Oh, I forgot to add, although it is academically "easier", its actually not quite the case.

Our first term there, all us Brits breezed through our classes laughing about how easy it was, doing as little work as possible and when we got 70% in our exams we patted ourselves on the back at how well we'd done. 70% in a British exam is an A grade. 70% in a US exam is, at best, a grade C. To get an A you would need 90%, and to get 90% you need to do some serious swotting, even for a relatively easy subject.

Although the subjects and questions were generally easier, we found we had to work much harder when revising for our exams - which were btw much more numerous than in the UK, lots of mid-term exams, all of which contributed to your final grade.

In my second term I did much more swotting and my GPA jumped from 1.9 in my first term to 3.2

And finally, lest anyone thinks I am bashing US Academia, whilst in the US I had to study Statistical Mechanics, which to this day remains the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. 1 hour, 3 times a week I would concentrate furiously and leave class with a spinning head......