Which university has the most arrogant students?

I'm so glad nobody on here actually listens to you. You're arrogant, selfish, opinionated, prejudiced and, not that you'd think it judging by your opinions of yourself, pretty uneducated. Not academically, maybe, but you have no idea about REAL people who lead REAL lives.

For you, if it isn't in a textbook, it isn't real. I don't want to hear from you again, because I really do find you that annoying. Don't bother replying.

But I thought you said older was better

Westminster 1838 and 1992

Imperial 1907 and 2007

Not always.

Age =/= prestige

In before "Oxford and Cambridge". The amount of self-deprecation, lack of confidence and self-hate at Oxford (and I presume Cambridge too) can be quite scary

I don't quite understand why you are so obsessed with individual univeristies and relative prestige - there are various reasons people end up at different institutions - you remind me of one of those people who seem to think the choices they make on ucas will decide their entire future, and that the place they spend three years studying will override any future efforts in life. Plently of succesful and bright people go to what you percieve as lesser universities - the founder of B&Q went to Solent, MPs have gone to Leeds Met and one of the most famous lawyers in the UK (Mr Loophole) graduated from Trent. There is more to somebody's makeup than the choices they made at 16,17,18! I understand you are obsessed with certain universities, but viewing everybody through the narrow prism of university destination is blinkered and pointless - at the end of the day, everywhere is simply bricks and morter.

I'm so glad nobody on here actually listens to you. You're arrogant, selfish, opinionated, prejudiced and, not that you'd think it judging by your opinions of yourself, pretty uneducated. Not academically, maybe, but you have no idea about REAL people who lead REAL lives.

For you, if it isn't in a textbook, it isn't real. I don't want to hear from you again, because I really do find you that annoying. Don't bother replying.

ISA got told

Not always.

Age =/= prestige

Rose, do you ever get any Cambridge people acting superior/ looking down to ARU students? I could imagine that being frustrating.

I've had one or two - not my friends that go to Cambridge, just random students. Then I found out one did land economy.

I'll be honest, I am one of those Oxford rejects planning on going to Durham. And obviously I did want to go there very much - if I'd got an offer from them I would have accepted it in a second. I'm not going to claim Durham is better academically either, however what I will say is that, in retrospect, going to Durham might actually be the better university for me personally to go to. I know that I can get stressed over always wanting to perform best etc, and that if I don't go out and socialise I can start to feel quite bad. Oxford quite possibly would have brought out the worst in me in that respect, so possibly for me, Durham is the better university. Perhaps when they say this, what they actually mean is that it offers them the better experience?

(I'm not saying that nobody at Oxford has a social life, manages the stress well etc obviously - only that some people would find this difficult. I know that some people have an amazing time there and for them it's the better option in every respect.)

What's wrong with Land Economy?

Ouch, to be fair to her, it's other people that build up that reputation of her, not her herself. She mostly actually makes reasonable posts, just expressed a bit poorly. A year ago I'd have agreed with you but you're being ridiculously harsh, the vast majority on TSR like her now, and rightly so.

*ISA back pedals furiously*

What's wrong with Land Economy?

Of course going to a good university does not mean you will do well in life. Of course going to a relatively bad university does not mean you're ****ed. I'm sure there are people who have come out well after graduating from London Met.

But I think it's fair to say that some universities are better than others, right? And generally speaking the students at the top universities will be better than ones at the lower universities - academically speaking, right?

This thread is really scaring me I was looking forward to Durham.Now I am scared everyone will look down at me because I am a working class girl.

Especially after I read this article!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/mortarboard/2010/sep/29/elite-universities-clash-of-cultures

In my A Level History class there are two other students - one is firming Cambridge and the other is firming St Andrews, and the teachers went to Oxford and Lancaser respectively. I have a massive inferiority complex and I am constantly reminded in every lesson they're more intelligent - and it shows in their work in class. I only scraped my A at AS, whereas they both have high As, and this further instills in me that I'm utterly crap in comparison to them. They're both self confident individuals going to better institutions than I and I hate being in the lessons quite often because of it. I suppose I feel because they all went/are going to top ten universities and I'm not a part of their 'inner cirlce' (which is pretty much not existent). Yes, I know it's pathetically weak, but I'm probably one of the most self depricating people in existence.

I suppose my point is that despite what some of you have said on here about arrgoant students going to lesser universities, that isn't always the case. Okay, I'm hardly firming a bad university (Nottingham) but those in ex-polytechnics aren't all going to be these arrogant meatheads who think they're God's gift, and I'd assume some of them probably have something of an inferiority complex about where they study too - not that they would deserve to feel such a way. I can't imagine where you go to university has that much of a bearing on how arrogant you are. Then again, who am I to say, and who is anyone to say indefinitely? Unless you've been to all of these universities you can never really make an informed judgement.

Of course going to a good university does not mean you will do well in life. Of course going to a relatively bad university does not mean you're ****ed. I'm sure there are people who have come out well after graduating from London Met.

But I think it's fair to say that some universities are better than others, right? And generally speaking the students at the top universities will be better than ones at the lower universities - academically speaking, right?

Nothing inherently, it just doesn't give you the grounds to feel superior.

You'll be fine. Remember that the loud arrogant ones are the ones that get noticed, not all the quieter ordinary human beings.

Durham has quite a large proportion of students from the North which is not generally where the rahs come from.

I would stick with St Aidan's as it has a lower proportion of independent school students than some colleges such as Hatfield, St Hild and St Bede, Castle.

Join societies for anything you enjoy doing or any sport or activity that you fancy trying out and you will soon meet people with the same interests as yourself, regardless of which sort of school they went to.