Do Oxbridge students look down upon others?

Actually I should mention that people at Magdalen do in fact look down on everyone else, including everyone else at Oxford. That's just life, I'm afraid.

I've never found this to be the case.

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I have no idea, but the PhD students on my course who were Undergraduates at Oxbridge that I've met have been useless.

Let's face it, the reality is that everyone who did not attend oxbridge is ill educated plebeian scum. Is that what the OP/people bitter at oxbridge people hope they will say?

Step into he real world. It isn't an attitude I've encountered - there's more people with chips on their shoulders about their rejections from those universities than there are people there who think they are better than said rejects.

Funny how more state school students went to oxbridge in the 60's/70s.

got any stats to back that up?

Definitely. I judge all of you dimwits.

got any stats to back that up?

You're not there yet

As I said to fullofsurprises, the elitism starts early good sir

It is important that one understand the institution that they are entering and acts accordingly...

In that case, you should immediately start to develop a harassed, overworked demeanour and practice a tendency to be late to tutorials.

It's a bit complicated interpreting the data in historical records, because the basis on which schools were defined as Maintained or not has changed over time somewhat (the picture for international students in particular is complicated), but roughly the figures show that the years since 2000 have all been higher for state school entry than any of the previous periods. There was a summary provided for a PQ in Hansard.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200203/ldhansrd/vo030605/text/30605w03.htm#30605w03_sbhd2

i can't remember wher but i think i've read this too. I'm thinking it was a newspaper article

got any stats to back that up?

It's oxford that's falling behind then - Cambridge has 63% of its students coming from state schools for admission in 2012 which is one of the highest percentages in recorded history

Funny one really-I go to St Andrews which considers itself the 'Oxbridge of Scotland', and for most Scots, that holds true to the point where getting into St A's is seen as the pinnacle, whereas getting into Oxford or Cambridge doesn't rank so highly.

The opposite holds in England where few people at my school had even heard of St A's let alone wanted to go there more than Oxbridge.

Of course the reality is that we shouldn't be focusing on where people come from: rather the universities should accept the best students that present themselves for interview. In part it is up for state schools to up their game, and actually encourage applications.

Edinburgh? or am i completely misinformed?