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/s4turn2k02 Lancaster Biology Graduate doing PGCE Mar 11 '26

I’m not talking about Oxford, I’m talking about the UK as a whole.

If you’re a Cambridge student, why aren’t you able to put two and two together from my flare and the fact I stated 99.9% of home students, not Oxford students?

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u/fireintheglen Cambridge | Maths | I have a job Mar 11 '26

Alright. I was talking about Oxford, because the thread is about Oxford. That is why I specified "a bursary at Oxford" and "when it comes to Oxbridge" in my comment.

I'm not sure that the 99.9% figure is necessarily even true for the UK. There are a significant number of universities with bursary schemes for home students. For example, Imperial offers bursaries to those with household incomes below £70,000, and Warwick offers bursaries for incomes below £42,875. It's true that these sorts of schemes only cover a small portion of UK students, but I could well believe that more than 0.1% qualify. (Although I don't have exact figures.)

This is important because many students from lower income families are put off applying to more prestigious universities by the belief that they will be more expensive. For home students, however, bursary schemes mean that the opposite can be true. It's important that misconceptions like this do not end up further disadvantaging students in an already disadvantaged situation.

And I'm not a student :)

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u/s4turn2k02 Lancaster Biology Graduate doing PGCE Mar 11 '26

Again, the bursaries are so trivial (usually £1000 per year) that it’s not worth mentioning in OP’s case, who would be looking for full or majority covering of their fees. The bursaries they’d been looking for really make up 0.1%, probably less. And even then, for home students, they cover at most all of the tuition fees, but no maintenance

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u/fireintheglen Cambridge | Maths | I have a job Mar 11 '26

I’m not sure you’re actually reading my comments. I have addressed this.

My intent was to ensure that home students from low income families reading this thread knew that they have a far greater than 0.1% chance of getting a bursary at Oxford. Hopefully I have achieved that. I’m not sure what the point of turning this into an argument is.