Do Oxbridge students look down upon others?

I know here on TSR that going against Oxbridge is a battle already lost.

I just want to see the general perception of Oxbridge students. Do you think they are prejudice upon us who do not attend?

Split into what? I don't understand , away from UCAS? Split into Ox and Bridge an nobody can again utter the term?

When I'm at uni next year, I'll look down on anyone attending an institution ranked lower than mine (Warwick hopefully!) on the Guardian's ranking.

Not sure what you mean when you say "going against Oxbridge is a battle already lost" - reading back through past threads, there is plenty of criticism of Oxbridge in different ways.

On your main point, the truthful answer is that it is not universal or even widespread, but there are feelings of superiority and some "looking down" amongst some students at Oxford, if that's what you mean by "prejudice". (I can't speak for Cambridge directly, but from what I know, it's probably about the same.) It's particularly a first year thing, when you first get to the place you can feel pretty pleased with yourself for your achievement and that can sometimes come across as superiority when comparison is made with other universities.

Beyond that, like anywhere, or maybe even more than many places, Oxford is something of a bubble and the subject of other institutions doesn't come up all that often. I would say though that there is a general sense of being "the best" or at least "amongst the best". Of course, there are also chronic feelings of envy directed toward Cambridge. (joke)

It's hard to be more concrete than that - people don't go around all day being madly superior about where they are, there is work to be done, places to be, people to see.

What a bellend.

It was a joke you moron. Some people are clearly blind to sarcasm.

We will try so terribly hard to restrain ourselves.

I thought 'Woxbridge' was over anyway, hasn't it been determined by exhaustive research that there is no scientific validity to the concept?

From then on, Warwick's empire will only continue to expand. I believe the current plan is to finance a military coup in Krgyzstan in order to establish central Asian campuses, with a view to one day providing a facility with which to develop a nuclear weapons programme.

It was a good one too, nice and precise.

I like it that people at Warwick are looking down too, makes one feel that elitism is kind of a growing and developing thing. Bit like Cameron's dream of 'spreading privilege'. Lol.

Thank you, I'm glad someone understood it

Haha, I think we're starting to catch up with the States in terms of the number of elite universities, which means more internationals with money will come over
It's an uphill struggle though, they've got so many elite institutions

Is now a good time to mention that in the 2012 QS rankings, Warwick does not even appear in the top 50, unlike Oxbridge, Imperial, Manchester, Durham, UCL, Kings and Bristol?

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012

Well I wouldn't trust QS. Do they usually not rank UCL above Oxford, Princeton, Stanford etc? Was it QS who ranked them fourth in the world? (I checked after writing this sentence, and yes they did!) UCL is world-leading but...c'mon.
You're right, Warwick went from 50th to 58th. Durham is 92nd though. Well, at least they beat Dartmouth and Rice! King's beat Northwestern, Manchester beat Brown and NYU, Edinburgh beat UC-Berkeley and Bristol beat UCLA.
Warwick did well on specific rankings though. For Law, they were 33rd.
On the employer ranking, Warwick was seventh. Durham, Nottingham, Manchester, Imperial, the LSE and Oxbridge appeared in the top 15.
To conclude, give it another two decades and we shall finally defeat the US as the world's centre of higher education! If we trust QS, ofc.

Oxford and Cambrige needs to be split . We should not use 'oxbridge' any more.

They have inherently different ways to select students depending on the paticular course.

So the notion that "If you are good enough for oxford you're good enough for cambridge " is false.

2 years ago, you could have bad a/s marks but great GCSE'S and stand a better chance at oxford, and bad GCSE'S and great a/s ums marks and stand a greater chance at cambridge.

Surely it varies from person to person? I've met people going to Oxbridge who are lovely and don't seem like they look down on anyone who doesn't go there, but I've also met elitist douches who go there too (well, mostly from my college who are accepted there - not there yet, but I imagine that's more to do with my college's elitist atmosphere in general than Oxbridge itself...).