Oxford/Cambridge?

orangelogic
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:53:40 +0000

Over Oxford’s and Cambridge’s 900/800 year history, broadly speaking, Oxford has tended to have a slight advantage in the Humanities - while Cambridge has had the same in the sciences. But that sort of sweeping generalization has never been, and certainly isn’t today, so significant as to sway applicant decision by itself. If it did, such a dim applicant probably didn’t get in.

The better thing to look at is each subject/course/Tripos, rather than getting all hung up on the breezy generalizations that folks who’d never get into either toss around.