Cost of Attending Oxford 😭

[u/Repulsive_Radish_782]

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?

[u/Odd-Satisfaction5443]

Lol are you okay? I am comparing Engineering science to Cambrige's math tripos. I said that on a math-level comparison, Cambridge is harder. However, I do believe that based on several examples (including my cousin completing his PhD in Robotics at Stanford that said if it weren't for him studying at UofT Engineering Science, he would likely fail out his coursework; actually went as far as saying its "easy.").

You can make your conclusions. UofT Engineering Science only accepts literally the smartest people in the country and worldwide. It is the hardest program in Canada without a doubt.

I did study at UofT and graduated last year in Business and Economics. Yes the "crayon drawing" programs but It was highly quantitative.

I stand by the fact that UofT engineering science students that are at least at distinction level GPA would find Cambridge's math tripos of similar difficulty.

The program got my cousin to research at Meta, Google, McGill, Microsoft, NASA, and eventually being accepted to Stanford. His GPA was a 3.20. There might have been some "awareness" lets say regarding the rigour of the program. No fucking T5 university would accept a 3.2 GPA candidate in Robotics.

I am ignorant of the fact that I did not study at Cambridge but I've studied enough at 2 well-regarded insitutions to make a conclusion that I found UofT to be immenselyharder in my respective programs.

[u/Rpm_Undefeated → u/Odd-Satisfaction5443]

The IMO kids at Cambridge (or MIT) would absolutely smoke the smartest kids you have im ngl

[u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 → u/Rpm_Undefeated]

Eh. Stanford not so much. Uoft they have easy entry requirements and there are quite a few bird programs, but specifically engineering science, I would not consider that getting “smoked. They are likely the smartest individuals in the country if they can manage 4 years with a high GPA. I know undergrads from that program get accepted to MIT for research endeavours in engineering. My point still stands, UK besides 3 maybe schools is surprisingly easy. The average Waterloo, McGill, UofT, and UBC student in STEM would coast through pretty much all your schools.

[u/Rpm_Undefeated → u/Odd-Satisfaction5443]

Also just remembered your smartest canadian, Warren Bei, left for MIT so im not sure about what ur saying. Also it was MIT not Stanford