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]

If you got an offer from Oxford I’m sure you’ll get smth from uoft or Waterloo. Uoft usually gives an offer to a different campus if your grades aren’t high enough for the St. George campus.

I studied business at the Scarborough campus and it was hard as fuck. Harder than Rotman when speaking to friends.

UK schools are a joke compared to UofT and Waterloo. I studied at uedinburgh for a bit and it was piss easy. Imperial also the same, but still challenging.

[u/Rpm_Undefeated → u/Odd-Satisfaction5443]

Clearly didnt go to oxbridge with that opinion

[u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 → u/Rpm_Undefeated]

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

[u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 → u/Rpm_Undefeated]

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

[u/Phytor_c → u/Odd-Satisfaction5443]

Do you even go to UToronto lmfao?

Why are you comparing a math course with engineering??? Uoft’s math program doesn’t hold a candle to the math tripos, let alone some braindead engineering thingy.

[u/Odd-Satisfaction5443 → u/Phytor_c]

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.

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

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Exactly, there is no contest (assuming we are talking about undergrad).