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Omnipresent conscience
Oct 2002
time: 05:32
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Originally posted by Jamski
Scottish lager. |
Ahh yes, I was just wondering where the statement came from? In RL, or did I serve the wrong tap? 
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Originally posted by Jamski
I just hope that either you have the right accent, or the right friends, or the right sporting ability for Oxford  Still, 4 A's is pretty demanding. |
Actually no. I've stayed their twice, I know many undergrads there, it is not about accent, or friends, or sports. Sure, sports help socialise, but almost all colleges the onus is on fun, not on ability. Only at Blues level does it become overtly competative. As for accent and friends, I come from a state school, we usually send one or two people a year to Oxford (as opposed to somewhere like Sevenoaks, that sends about 30-50). It is the friendliest place I know. On the open day we all went out, got to know each other. We're all in the same boat. Half the people there know no-one else who's there, so it's easy to make friends. It's really not the world of Brideshead Revisited or the Oxford of old. It's just a place where 6000 of the countries best students go each year, and are thrown in at the deep end.
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Originally posted by Jamski
Beautiful place though, and certainly pretty special. Not quite as good as Cambridge of course  |
Actually, for economics, Oxford is way way ahead. Overall Cambridge edges it, and it has far stronger sciences, but Oxford has the stronger arts and some of the social sciences. It's mostly personal taste. I know this well, my brother's a 4th year at Cambridge. As he said, and I agree, it matters more which college you choose than whether you go to Oxford or Cambridge, by and large. For my subject, Oxford has better research, better teaching and a far better thought out course (more options, more progressive, better support for it). For my brothers course (Maths) Cambridge is the place to be.
In the ratings, Cambridge has slightly higher rates of 1sts and 2:1s, slightly higher average A level grades (29.7 as opposed to 29.6 points (10 is an A, 8 a B, 6 a C, taking only the top 3)) slightly higher computing spending and much lower libraries spending.
Oxford also has the Fullbright scholarship, which is a scholarship to a US university for a year. And Yale just happens to have a course I'd love to take (International and Developmental Economics) I won't get it, but it's worth a try 
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28-01-2004 15:18
*blushes* 
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