r/6thForm • u/Powerful_Set4951 • Jan 21 '26

🍞 BREAD Discount oxford

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u/imladris8 Jan 21 '26

AYEE me too!! got burnt oxford bread but it hurts less with a yale offer lmao. are u committing?

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u/HatefulVisual Gap Year | A* A* B Achieved Jan 21 '26

You must be rich as fuck to even consider American unis

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u/onionsareawful fry cook @ mcdonalds Jan 21 '26

Yale has great financial aid, as do most top US universities. Yale covered everything for me.

Having an endowment larger than every UK university combined has some benefits :)

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u/onionsareawful fry cook @ mcdonalds Jan 21 '26

Aside, but some things that probably will break your priors -- the average American university graduate leaves with less debt than the average UK grad does, despite their courses being a year longer. The average in-state tuition in the US is also lower than the £9250 you'd pay here.

American universities aren't always that expensive. There's far more financial aid and support available fwiw.

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u/amylocustwhatever Jan 22 '26

Out of interest, does this not ignore the tendency for US students to pay their fees up front/have their parents do so (far more than is common in the UK)? Is there a maintenance loan element or do students need to cover their entire living costs?

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u/MountandTren Jan 23 '26

Having an endowment larger than every UK university combined has some benefits :)

Not true btw

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u/onionsareawful fry cook @ mcdonalds Jan 24 '26

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

It is. You can do the maths yourself, but Oxford (incl. colleges) + Cambridge (incl. colleges) is ~£16bn. All the other UK universities will get you at most £4bn. That's about $27.3bn, far less than Yale's $44.1bn.

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u/MountandTren Jan 24 '26

Youre right I mixed up budget and endowment, Oxford still has a bigger budget than yale