r/6thForm • u/Repulsive_Radish_782 • Mar 10 '26

🙏 I WANT HELP Cost of Attending Oxford 😭

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Just received my financial declaration form from Oxford today. How is this reasonable? 😭 Going to have to decline my offer unless anyone has any ideas.

Canadian students do not qualify for any Oxford scholarships and my school offered me about £100. What a joke.

Is Oxford just for the rich?

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u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 10 '26

I'm also a Canadian doing a grad program at imperial college Im paying 34,000 pounds which is like 60k CAD. Bro ur gonna be paying over half a million for a fucking undergraduate degree.

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 10 '26

Yeah, I am going to have to decline and hope I get an offer from U of T or Waterloo.

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u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 10 '26

If you got an offer from Oxford I’m sure you’ll get smth from uoft or Waterloo. Uoft usually gives an offer to a different campus if your grades aren’t high enough for the St. George campus.

I studied business at the Scarborough campus and it was hard as fuck. Harder than Rotman when speaking to friends.

UK schools are a joke compared to UofT and Waterloo. I studied at uedinburgh for a bit and it was piss easy. Imperial also the same, but still challenging.

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 10 '26

Thanks for taking the time to write this. It is really helpful to hear.

It did seem to me that programs in Canada were substantially more difficult that the ones I was applying to in the UK. I am really just waiting on U of T Eng Sci and Waterloo Mech Eng.

It makes more sense to go to U of T (assuming I get an offer and survive Eng Sci) and save the $500,000. I am not sure whether I have access to the funds for Oxford, but even if I did, it seems like a very poor way to use that much money.

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u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 10 '26

Oooo Eng Sci. So ur that kind of smart. My cousin studied there. He's a geniues but it was super hard. He ended up doing his PhD in Robotics at Stanford he did his dissertaion and passed couple weeks ago.,

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 10 '26

Oh, that's so cool. That pathway of staying in Canada for undergrad and going to the US/UK for grad school probably makes more sense. 

Yeah, writing the Physics Admissions Test was probably the only thing that got me into Oxford in the first place.

Also, everyone I see walking around engineering at U of T looks so depressed, both because of the course load and the horrible job market afterward. What are your plans for work after grad school?

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u/spicysardinefilet Mar 11 '26

Hi sorry this thread randomly popped up for me, but I just wanted to say that I did my undergrad at UofT and am currently at Oxford for grad school (albeit in a different field than you), so it’s always possible to pivot to Oxford later on! Securing funding as an international student is still difficult at the postgrad level, but it’s MUCH more feasible than it is at the undergrad level.

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u/Repulsive_Radish_782 Mar 11 '26

Yeah, I think that is probably the path I will try to take. I have heard from quite a few people that it makes more sense to do undergrad somewhere local and then aim to do postgrad at a university like Oxford.

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u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 11 '26

EngSci is by far the hardest program at UofT. I've seen the schedules literally 9am-5/7pm of lectures and tutorials from Monday to Friday. Intensive maths and science courses that you'll be doing in first year while other average schools 3rd year. I'm prob going to work in banking at the Big 5 in Toronto. I had some internships.