Hello! I'm a senior Canadian student who's interested in applying to Oxford
I'm from Toronto, Ontario and recently found an interest/passion for coding. I am not too familiar with UK teaching, so I really hope some of you could help me out!
I go to a pretty high-ranking school in Toronto, and I finished Gr.11 with 93%. I had 99% in Enriched Mathematics and 95% in Computer Science. I've also recently started going to hackathons (Hack the North next month!); I've hosted hackathons before; I was part of a "pretigious" (lol) summer program in Canada and had an internship over the summer. I also do pretty well in mathematics contests but I'm a complete **** in computer science contests lool.
Anyway, I have trouble deciding between Computer Science and Mathematics and Computer Science at Oxford. What are the pros and cons? I'm definitely interested in both, but I heard the joint degree is a lot more work. With the joint degree, will I fall behind the coders? How rigorous will be maths be in university? Please help me give more insight between the 2 courses! Also, which one is easier to get into?
Does Oxford also look at the male-female gender ratio?
Also, for MAT, how do I exactly study for that? I'm Canadian, and our mathematics curriculum is slightly behind UK's I think. I finished AP Calc BC with 5 but that was a year ago so I can't really remember anything either.
Thank you so much guys. I hope some of you could help me with all these. I'm slightly going crazy trying to balance UK-US-Canada haha