American curriculum schools around London

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Looking for a high school with US curriculum. Not a pressure cooker. Is ASL still really hard to get into? How do kids find it? What about TASIS or ACS Cobham in the suburbs? What are good places to live for commuting to these schools and to central London?

Also ACS Hillingdon. The dc travel vast distances, for Hillingdon they can come from central London or Oxford - see the coach map on the website.