Getting Accepted into A Top 10 Uni Guarantees you NOTHING

He's got a point. Not a very good one, but I can see what he's trying to get at. Unfortunately, we still live in a system whereby anyone who goes to Oxbridge can get pretty much any job irrespective of whether or not they're actually qualified.

You want to go into Investment Banking? You've got a 2.1 in Theology from Oxford? Nice to meet you, your desk's over there
You want to go into Investment Banking? You've got a 2.1 in joint Honours Maths & Economics from LSE, an MA and two IB internships under your belt? Hmm, we'll get back to you. Your CV's on file.

I wish I was exaggerating but I'm not The job market is terrible just now and employers are looking for experience > qualifications, but the Oxbridge bandwagon continues to roll in its little bubble. An elitist anachronism if ever I saw it.

There is also this little thing called "being overqualified". If you have a PhD and apply for a job at Wickes, people are a) going to think you're some kind of stuck-up tosser and b) you're too bright for the role and will run a mile as soon as something else comes along, therefore you're not worth the risk. Sad, I know, but also true.

Still, the students there are probably more intelligent than people who fail their GCSEs and go off to get jobs right afterwards.

A lot of kids don't think in terms of employment. The clever ones get good grades along with their friends, and end up going to uni because it seems like the natural thing. The less clever ones fail their GCSEs along with their friends, and go off to get jobs.

I disagree to an extent. I have plenty of friends who are more intelligent than me but who don't work as hard as me, they didn't go to uni, but I did. In the long run I think the affect of uni upon my overall satisfaction of life will be minimal, except for those 3 amazing years.

Sick of these elitists saying " hurr durr I'm going to Oxbridge, got offers from Nottingham Trent"

Watch them come out and struggle to get work at Wickes.

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He's got a point. Not a very good one, but I can see what he's trying to get at. Unfortunately, we still live in a system whereby anyone who goes to Oxbridge can get pretty much any job irrespective of whether or not they're actually qualified.

Here are two things that I have gathered from these types of threads:

The difference between people going to a top 10 university (A) and non-top 10 university (B) is that A knows that he isn't guaranteed anything, and that B thinks that A believes that they'll graduate into a job.

B makes these types of threads because they're secretly insecure about what they're doing in life. If you truly don't care, why are you making a thread and watching/caring about what other people do?

Here are two things that I have gathered from these types of threads:

The difference between people going to a top 10 university (A) and non-top 10 university (B) is that A knows that he isn't guaranteed anything, and that B thinks that A believes that they'll graduate into a job.

B makes these types of threads because they're secretly insecure about what they're doing in life. If you truly don't care, why are you making a thread and watching/caring about what other people do?

Here are two things that I have gathered from these types of threads:

The difference between people going to a top 10 university (A) and non-top 10 university (B) is that A knows that he isn't guaranteed anything, and that B thinks that A believes that they'll graduate into a job.

B makes these types of threads because they're secretly insecure about what they're doing in life. If you truly don't care, why are you making a thread and watching/caring about what other people do?