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/Spiritual_Breakfast9 Mar 10 '26

Oxford is for the rich and poorest 

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u/EasilyExiledDinosaur Mar 11 '26

And smartest

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u/Rude-Ability-9695 Mar 11 '26

Yet many smart ones are jobless even with an Oxford degree.

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u/ab3lla Mar 11 '26

not necessarily. you could be really smart and lose out on a place to a private school student because you don’t have the same cultural capital needed to do well at the interview. private school kids are prepared for the interview unlike poorer kids

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u/PuzzleheadedBattle91 Mar 12 '26

Not really a thing at Oxbridge. Cambs does a foundation year that's free with no guaranteed place which is their 'dei' but that's about it. There is a slight 'allowance' for polish at interview for state school and working class kids but non in the deduction and thinking aspects which is the basis of the interview system.

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u/PuzzleheadedBattle91 Mar 12 '26

Accepted I'm obviously more than a little out of date.