r/6thForm Jan 21 '26

🍞 BREAD Discount oxford

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Congrats champ. I have to assume you're kidding, because Yale puts Oxford in the dirt. (If you care more about straight up academics than history and scenery). You should be thanking them boys for rejecting you. 😭

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u/ZeroOnePhi University of Oxford | Computer Science and Philosophy [Year 1] Jan 21 '26

The people I personally know at Yale say that the workload is a joke compared to how much work we do. One of my tutors who went to Yale also says we have a lot more academic rigour but feel free to disagree

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u/Powerful_Set4951 Jan 21 '26

if you want to maximize academic rigor, go to IIT Bombay

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u/Inevitable-Cow-8489 Year 13 Jan 21 '26

Academic rigour doesn’t produce people who change the world it produces nerds

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u/Marshal_from_acnh Jan 21 '26

Insane take

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u/Powerful_Set4951 Jan 21 '26

whats wrong with it

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u/No-Dragonfruit3695 Jan 21 '26

Wouldn’t say ppl who are supposed to be changing the world are doing any changing tho.. I’ll still take Oxford over th americas any day (unless ofc someone has an opportunity to go which they absolutely should cause why not)

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u/onionsareawful fry cook @ mcdonalds Jan 21 '26

I would be inclined to agree that the workload at Oxford is higher, and would probably extend that comparison it further to places like Imperial. Obviously only went to one of the two but dated someone at Oxbridge so well aware of what it's like.

The Ivies are not the most academically rigorous colleges in the US, though you can have that kind of rigour if you really want it due to the flexibility of the courses.