or grounds that english public schools boast of also since they were anyway shunning indian educational systems like icse or cbse it probably made sense for them to try for the worlds best some ironically found that it was easier to get into a top uk boarding school than a top ib school in india much like it is often easier to make it to a prestigious us university than a top indian institution like the iit incidentally a large number of students from these institutions get into ivy league schools in the us and oxbridge in the uk another reason why they appeal to phorenfocused indian parents rugby parent vidya shah ceo edelgive foundation of the edelweiss group says that even though her son neel was in a top ib school in mumbai he was looking for something more and loved the intensive alevel curriculum at the british school it led to a lot of independent study and that is great preparation for university she says the only disadvantage if any is that at age 16 some children find it hard to adjust to the new environment international students comprise less than 10 of the total student body you have to get used to the food and the weather which is terrible says shah ishaan jhaveri who moved from cathedral to sevenoaks and is currently at cornell university says i had the most fantastic lifechanging experience first of all living on my own in a foreign country taught me much about organization budgeting and such skills it exposed me to people from all sorts of backgrounds above all i had a worldclass education