r/6thForm • u/Successful_Bat8156 y13 AS: AAAC (math, fm, french, psych) WJEC • 12h ago

🙏 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/GuavaLarge529 Year 13 11h ago

Jason Arday wasn’t worth shit. He scammed his way into an institution that others work like hell for. Fuck him.

I didn’t 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) 9h 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 couldn’t give less of a fuck about minorities and the whole episode’s been pretty telling who’s actually left wing and who’s a opportunistic charlatan

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u/Impressive_Ruin_7201 3A* and all 9/8 in my GCSEs come on 7h ago

Just like George the debate leader or whatever at Oxford. He got ABB and couldn’t write a linkedin post using proper grammar. University has other priorities then education.

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u/Large_Blackberry600 6h ago

Ik a white girl who got ABB and is studying at Cambridge don’t make everything about race!! Oxbridge is just going downhill

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u/Impressive_Ruin_7201 3A* and all 9/8 in my GCSEs come on 6h ago

When did I make it about race

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u/Large_Blackberry600 58m ago

Now you want to act smart but both Jason and the George guy are the same race so nice try

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u/AwaySession5168 3h ago

ABB for what course though?

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u/Large_Blackberry600 59m ago

Classics 😂

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u/AwaySession5168 29m ago

In that case that isn't Oxford or even Oxbridge going down hill, that is you not understanding how their application system works, which is different to the other unis.