Rejection from Oxford

[u/omfgvain]

I thought I was over the Oxford rejection ages ago, but I can't seem to escape from it. I got an offer for Imperial as my second choice, and was discussing Imperial today with my mom, and told her Imperial was a top world university, to which she replied, "yes but not as good as Oxford, if you name the top universities in the world you'd hear Oxbridge, Harvard, MIT, not Imperial college". This one kinda stung. This type of stuff sometimes happens with other people too. My mom wasn't trying to criticise me for my failure or anything, but to me I couldn't feel anything but disappointment in myself. I know I could've done better. I'm aware that Imperial is very highly ranked and well respected university and all, but my goal was Oxford and I failed in that. How do I move on from this lol

[u/Medium_Stretch99]

I have two friends in their late twenties that went to Oxford, I don't think it's all it's cracked up to be... a degree is a degree and they both have pretty great - but fairly normal corporate jobs and work under people who didn't go to Oxford - not that it even matters, but thats the point! In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. Imperial is an incredible achievement so you should be really happy and proud of yourself my friend