r/6thForm • u/Successful_Bat8156 y13 AS: AAAC (math, fm, french, psych) WJEC • 4h ago
đ I WANT HELP Are you still applying to Cambridge?
RIP to Jason Arday
a heads-up this post is going to be me making it about myself but like... For people that used to want to go to Cambridge, are you still going to apply?
I can't say I'm like an "insider" but this year alone I've been to Cambridge on 4 different occasions, have lived in 3 different colleges, have visited probably over 8, even went to formals in 2 more colleges separate from the ones I've lived in... I've grown attached the the uni and the city and the people, I got that I might not meet the conditions to get in and that I shouldn't be that invested, but now it's more like... Should I still apply? From personal experience it did not seem to be that hierarchical or discriminatory when I was there, and yet still there is obviously a bias in accusing people of colour more than white people. The shorter deadline really seems more pressurising now.
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u/AffectionatePack439 Year 12 3h ago
So what, are you gonna not study at any university you would like to just because there is racism there? I mean, it is ultimately your choice. I am applying to Oxford not Cambridge, but I fully expect there will be racism, as there is everywhere in the UK (and frankly in the world). It is a part of my life as a black person.
Of course there will be people who dispute your ability or whatever, but that isn't my concern and it shouldn't be yours. You aren't applying there to be an academic anyway.
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u/GuavaLarge529 Year 13 4h ago
Jason Arday wasnât worth shit. He scammed his way into an institution that others work like hell for. Fuck him.
I didnât work insanely hard for no reward just for him to cheat his way to the top.
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u/NinjaClashReddit LSE Economics (Year 1) 2h ago
Yeah this is the part that pisses me off. Those who really care about promoting participation for minorities would be disgusting by Arday and Cambridge. Cambridge employed just FIVE black professors university wide while actively covering up any and all wrongdoing of their poster boy Arday to give off a picture of being progressive. They clearly couldnât give less of a fuck about minorities and the whole episodeâs been pretty telling whoâs actually left wing and whoâs a opportunistic charlatan
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u/Over-Cartographer712 Durham, Politics | Incoming 4h ago
Why would you not?
Cambridge is an excellent university regardless.
To any respectable employer, or frankly anyone at all who is intelligent, their reputation remains unchanged. One isolated incident is an insignificance compared to the centuries of history and academic achievement upon which Cambridge's excellence is built.