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UWS, Strathclyde, GCU, Robert Gordon, Abertay, Dundee, Highlands and Islands, Napier, Herriot Watt, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, all these places don't even register on the HESA privately educated list so fewer of 2% of their students are privately educated. I encourage you to go look it up. You do need to register on the HESA website though.

The university on that list with the with the highest percentage of international students is Strathclyde with 18% but it will likely be way less than that if you take out postgraduate, likely more like 5%. Add that to the fact that many of these universities have met their SIMD targets or are very close and you are going to be left with an undergraduate population that pretty closely represents the wider Scottish population. You just are mate. I don't know what to tell you. I even tried to see if I could possibly make the numbers support your point and there just is no way to do it. Sorry, it really seems like you have some portion of your identify wrapped up in this which is making you reject the figures.

It is true you aren't going to go to a university that has 90% people from the bottom 20% of SIMD households because it wouldn't make all that much sense to over-represent like that. But your view that the majority of Uni students across all institutions in Scotland will be wealthy or or privately educated just is not true.

There was a time this was true but it isn't anymore. The facts and figures simply don't agree with you here. Sorry mate.