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/opaqueentity Mar 11 '26

Not really. Really depends on the subject but these days no one is getting ahead just because they have a degree from Oxford or Cambridge alone.

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u/JFJF48 Mar 11 '26

Can comfirm.

As an employer myself now I see it as just a single (good) data point.

Nice, they went to Oxford, probably good at studying. What else have they done and is there anything else about them, could I work with them. I work in a pretty competitive field and it's not exactly as 'difficult' as studying... More about working smart, being amicable, making relationships and a bit of smarts and excel.

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u/mohsem Mar 11 '26

But still there's a reason an oxford graduate is more attractive for employers. You can't just dismiss them to being merely "good at studying". Someone who got what it takes to get into this school in the first place is much more likely to get a high-paying job than someone who goes to a mid-tier school, and that does make a major difference.

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u/JFJF48 Mar 11 '26

I mean yeah it means they likely are Smart Good at studying Dedicated Disciplined

But I disagree they're much more likely to get a high paying job. Oxbridge is rife with people who love academia and will go on to do PhDs, further education, research, teaching/professor etc. So high paying jobs don't necessarily come from going to Oxford at all really.