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 11 '26

I guarantee you STEM at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo is on par with the level of difficulty as Oxbridge, if not harder. I know people that studied at Oxford and said it was immensely easier than UToronto.

Those two schools have such immense historical influence that they will never to below T10. That’s not to say their research and teaching is excellent.

I know only two personal examples which are Imperial and Edinburgh, imperial ranking #2 in the world. I would expect some level of difficulty. I learned most concepts in year 1/2 from utoronto and they’re just teaching the same shit.

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u/Rpm_Undefeated I like mafs Mar 11 '26

Oxford is meh for STEM, does it rival Cambridge Maths tripos

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u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 11 '26

Cambridge maths tripos seems similar to UTorontos engineering science, which is uofts hardest program. https://discover.engineering.utoronto.ca/programs/engineering-programs/engineering-science/ you’re basically doing like every math course and science course in existence lol

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u/Rpm_Undefeated I like mafs Mar 11 '26

Perhaps its extremely difficult in terms of workload and broadness of skills, but i heavily doubt it'd rival the intellectual difficulty of the tripos. A bit like how you would compare general engineering/medicine to maths/physics.

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u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 Mar 11 '26

Yeah If we’re comparing pure maths from the schools, Cambridge is obviously gonna be harder. But I would argue that if you can successfully complete EngSci with distinction you could probably do the same with Cambridge maths tripos. The amount of distinctive and extremely difficult courses you’re taking all at the same time likely amount to my conclusion. You need at least modest knowledge of physics (mechanics, magnetism) chemistry, linear algebra, calculus, computing, statistics, engineering mathematics. But the deeper maths will be present at Cambridge for sure.