<p>“its not easy but still not as hard as getting into other places.”</p>
<p>Strongly agree. Exactly. I have a feeling that people on this board often take a perfectly, clearly, and precisely worded statement like that to mean that as insinuating that the school in question sucks though, for some reason that I don’t understand. They have trouble accepting that their school isn’t exceptional in every field.</p>
<p>RML - I seriously think you are idealizing Oxford. The truth is, not all programs at Oxford are hard to get into, making getting into Oxford with 3.4 from Stanford possible. I don’t know why you have to defend Oxford so vigorously. I would have willingly admit that the universities that I attended (for undergrad and for law, both rank among the top two, at least in some years, in the US in their respective categories) have graduate programs that a 3.4 from Stanford stands a chance of getting into. People on this board really have some issues with feeling the need to defend their school in every way, for a reason that I really don’t understand.</p>
<p>“I strongly disagree with you Ivypbear.If that’s the case,then why did former exchange students from Yale heavily support Oxford,when there was an article about “incompetence” in comparison with the ivies,written by two ladies who apparently,were exchange students at Oxford?Oxford is special,even the Yalies comprehend that!Why don’t you?”</p>
<p>Don’t they teach you a logical fallacy called over-generalization at Oxford? Look it up, it would help you made a legit argument next time. I really hope that you are a first year student at Oxford, if most students at Oxford make this kind of argument, then teaching or admissions at Oxford is really falling to pieces. I know people at Williams who have done exchange at Oxford, and they treated it as a term for vacation and felt that the term was a joke academic wise, but anecdotal evidence like this don’t prove anything general.</p>