Biggest Oxbridge Myths?

Reply 40

Oxford Mum

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Original post by harrysbar

I've heard that he has found the last number of pi :h:

Did someone say pie? The last pie? If it's blackberry and apple, I'm having it...

Reply 41

Oxford Mum

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Original post by Deggs_14

Does everyone just study from dusk until dawn every day? Is this required to even achieve a grade?

My son just went back to Oxford with 10 bottles of wine and a poker table so... no.

Reply 42

looloo2134

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That everyone who go to Oxbridge will get a well paying job. I meet another Oxbridge grads who are on job seekers or funded by their parents.

Reply 43

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Original post by Wired_1800

Haha, that is true. I understand what you mean, but Trinity is Trinity. Corpus at Cam is just there. Other than their clock and central location, they could be Girton. :colone:

Pray tell whatever could be wrong with Girton? At least it's convenient for quick getaways from Cambridge.

Reply 44

Wired_1800

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Original post by 学生の父

Pray tell whatever could be wrong with Girton? At least it's convenient for quick getaways from Cambridge.

Sorry. There isn't anything wrong with Girton, other than it is miles away from civilisation.

Reply 45

Oxford Mum

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But it’s still a Cambridge college. Many would sell their granny and then some to get in there

Reply 46

Wired_1800

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Original post by Oxford Mum

But it’s still a Cambridge college. Many would sell their granny and then some to get in there

I agree. It was made as a joke. Girton is a nice college.

Reply 47

Notnek

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It's a myth that Oxbridge interviews students:

"Oxbridge University is the most ridiculously impossible University to get into on the planet. This is due primarily to the fact that it has long since ceased interviewing potential students, instead telepathically screening all 17 year olds on October 12th, Cewster's Friday, and selecting those who show the greatest attraction to the stale, wizened tutors and possessed of the silliest accents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge

Reply 48

CamilleStSaens

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After 2 years here studying medicine, I'd agree; most of what's said is apocryphal &/or myth.
That said, during my sixth form, I genuinely did read through 125 pp of an undergrad textbook on Neurology, since I've wanted to be a Neurologist since aged 15 - and to study at Cambridge.
Therefore, I cited that on my UCAS/PS in expectation that they would challenge me at my interview.

- And they did; the questions got harder and harder... my hands, folded in my lap, were wet from perspiring, but I answered reasonably convincingly.

Offer was A* A A below what many here were made, so perhaps that prep made them like me.

Ps. It is cool to study here, it's not like Harvard, where ( - from a visit to a friend there)
the medical students are so conceited they think they're Gods ... or starring in a cheesy TV series... lol :smile:

( studying medicine is nothing like TV )

Best of luck!

Camille

(edited 4 years ago)

Reply 49

the bear

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Original post by Sir Cumference

It's a myth that Oxbridge interviews students:

"Oxbridge University is the most ridiculously impossible University to get into on the planet. This is due primarily to the fact that it has long since ceased interviewing potential students, instead telepathically screening all 17 year olds on October 12th, Cewster's Friday, and selecting those who show the greatest attraction to the stale, wizened tutors and possessed of the silliest accents."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge

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Reply 50

Oxford Mum

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Original post by CamilleStSaens

After 2 years here studying medicine, I'd agree; most of what's said is apocryphal &/or myth.
That said, during my sixth form, I genuinely did read through 125 pp of an undergrad textbook on Neurology, since I've wanted to be a Neurologist since aged 15 - and to study at Cambridge.
Therefore, I cited that on my UCAS/PS in expectation that they would challenge me at my interview.

- And they did; the questions got harder and harder... my hands, folded in my lap, were wet from perspiring, but I answered reasonably convincingly.

Offer was A* A A below what many here were made, so perhaps that prep made them like me.

Ps. It is cool to study here, it's not like Harvard, where ( - from a visit to a friend there)
the medical students are so conceited they think they're Gods ... or starring in a cheesy TV series... lol :smile:

( studying medicine is nothing like TV )

Best of luck!

Camille

@CamilleStSaens

You must be my son's Cambridge equivalent, then. He is in his third year at Oxford medicine. He also loves neurology and has a model of a brain on his desk. When he came to to do his EPQ on the explanatory gap, he wrote 44,000 words instead of the recommended limit of 5,000. For his 2nd/3rd year project his subject is also the brain.

Reply 51

RogerOxon

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Original post by 学生の父

Pray tell whatever could be wrong with Girton? At least it's convenient for quick getaways from Cambridge.

Nothing quick about the A14 ..

Reply 52

Oxford Mum

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Original post by RogerOxon

Nothing quick about the A14 ..

Nothing quick about the M40 half the time, either

Reply 53

RogerOxon

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Original post by looloo2134

That everyone who go to Oxbridge will get a well paying job.

This. The expectation seems to be that every Oxbridge graduate will be heading a multinational company - the number of graduates per year makes that ridiculous.

Reply 54

RogerOxon

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Original post by Oxford Mum

Nothing quick about the M40 half the time, either

More lanes, and nicer scenery though.

Reply 55

Oxford Mum

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Original post by RogerOxon

More lanes, and nicer scenery though.

When you spot the Chinese pagoda (as I call it) on the M40, you know you're near Oxford!

Reply 56

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Original post by RogerOxon

More lanes, and nicer scenery though.

Yeah, but when I was sitting stationary on the A14 near the Girton interchange last week, it looked like they were doubling the road's width.

I agree with @Oxford Mum, though: the M40's scenery is nicer.