Oxford PPE Math

Seems to me that UMich will be fine for what you want. Do some merit hunting in the US if you want to, focusing on cohort type scholarships - if you really have what it takes to put in a credible application to Oxford then you ought to be a strong candidate for merit in the US. In any case I don’t see PPE or Law in the UK as a particularly good route into investment banking, PPE is more classically thought of as a route into politics or journalism, while law is a vocational degree.

I’ll just add that we went through some of the same decisionmaking process, concluding that it wasn’t worth spending $80K per year on college but Oxford was an option that was not meaningfully more expensive then our instate flagships in CA. After being turned down by Oxford, S took the instate flagship route, he is very happy and has a 4.0, prestigious internships, etc. It has all worked out very well.