Oxford or Cambridge?

Bassplayer08
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:06:52 +0000

Normally people say Cambridge for sciences and Oxford for math, but you may want to check The Student Room forum for this (basically CC version UK).
Honestly I’m not sure there’s so much difference between both. Maybe you can have a look at the faculty, see who specializes in what and how that matches your interests. Since it’s a tutorial system, apparently student might sometime be able request to study with X professor if they are interested in their particular speciality field.

You also may want to check out admission rate for both Maths course and see how competitive your credentials would be. For example I know that for my country Cambridge says in the prospectus that they don’t want you to apply if you didn’t get (or are not predicted) more than 16/20, but Oxford says 15/20 is OK.

Honestly I wouldn’t choose for the colleges, since there’s the pool.

Did you listen too Oxford Podcasts (it’s like Podoxford or something). There’s plenty of into about applying, how to choose a college, and some interviews.