Cambridge cost

[Anonymous]

If you’re so knowledgeable about the process, not sure why you needed to post in the first place. If you have Cantab connections, not sure why you couldn’t reach out to someone who would know a current student or two so you could get visibility into costs for an American. The basic financial information is on the website.
Weird.

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Anonymous wrote:For us, Oxbridge is attractive financially as it is for academics and prestige. We're US citizens, but even as an international student, three years at a UK college will be cheaper or at least on par with full-pay private college Stateside. A liberal arts degree is three years, so there's cost cutting there too. For the price, three years at Oxbridge will be a much more eye-opening and learning experience than spending four years at a mid-tier US college.

If DC were to get a generous scholarship here, or get into an Ivy, then that would be a different matter.

But you are comparing apples to oranges. The Oxbridge system is a focused one on one subject. The student does not get the broad education experience that US institutions are known for.

yeah and it sounds out of reach for OP's kid if her alternative is only mid-tier US collage. I actually laughed so hard I spat my tea.

OP here. My kid is not mid tier. She's high stats and meets all Cambridge's requirements. That's a different poster, and I think she was using mid-tier as a baseline, not a target. So lick it up, Heather. (And, yes, I know this was originally to Veronica, but you're really being a Heather).

My family attended Cambridge. It is very hard for Americans from the US to get in. You have to hugely exceed the base expectations for entry. Good luck though - always worth a punt.

Op’s dd is a UK citizen if I am following correctly. Probably increases the chances of admisssion significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re so knowledgeable about the process, not sure why you needed to post in the first place. If you have Cantab connections, not sure why you couldn’t reach out to someone who would know a current student or two so you could get visibility into costs for an American. The basic financial information is on the website.
Weird.

Because I am not knowledgeable about current costs. Please learn to read. I NEVER asked about the process. I asked about current costs. The financial info on the uni and college websites was not entirely clear -- sometimes there are 2 cost sections, sometimes a third for in'tl (which is vague in description), and it's different from Home. Many people, including some who posted on this thread, added the sections up incorrectly. Very thankful to the current parent who weighed. You, on the other hand, have offered nothing, so why post at all? Really weird. Move on.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was hoping to hear from someone w/ a kid there to confirm. Anyone out there?

From my research, I think w/ the 22K (23.5k in 2022) for uni fees, 10k for college and 10K for living all in UK sterling, it will be like $56k. Living expenses seem to be room, board, some going out, grocery shopping and some travel from what I can gather. Of course, travel would be more expensive from the US.


I am aware of the various costs for courses of study. (I listed the cost of DD's course in the post). The figures PP (who brought up the various costs) mentioned don't include college fees or living expenses. That's what I'm trying to sort out.


Yes, Cambridge does take undergrads from the US (to PP who said they didn't). Mine is finishing some entrance exams and has interview scheduled. IB is the clearest means of applying (w/ predicted grades), but non-IB students w/ high SATs and 5 APs w/ 5s can be accepted to study as well. Don't need the 5 5s in hand, but will need them by summer to confirm any offers. IB grades will need to be confirmed in summer as well.

OP, what is the draw of Cambridge for your DC? Interested as we have two sets of good friends who are a mix of Ox/Bridge grads. All now work in the States. Neither set encouraged their DCs to apply to their unis, largely because they think it is a hindrance for employment in the States. Frankly, they discouraged them. One of the dads really lucked out with a tippy top corporate job but he is the first to say that luck played a huge role in his career. Two are academics/researchers in high demand fields, but that's pretty much the exception not the rule.

Seems to make sense for a post-grad degree, but possibly dicey for a BA/BS if planning to work in US.

She really loves the idea of studying there, and we have family in the UK, including Cambridge alums. have reservations, more for the focus of study than the job connections. She is a UK citizen, so I could see her staying in the UK.

Got it. DCs of one set of friends also UK citizens, but the kids don't seem to see a professional life there post-Brexit. GL to your DD!

I would not unduly worry about Brexit. London is London regardless of what happens. All the major firms recruit from Oxbridge and that isn't changing either.

I'm a PP with two sets of Oxbridge friends and both discouraged their DCs from applying b/c the networking, recruiting, etc is a LOT more difficult. One of them is highly successful and still acknowledges that luck played a role due to the challenges. Also, the jury is still out on Brexit. Brussels is waging war on getting in on the derivatives market, etc. And the Dutch, French, and Germans have all respectively made inroads in equities, hedge funds, and banking. Again, jury is still out, but it is not 2015.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was hoping to hear from someone w/ a kid there to confirm. Anyone out there?

From my research, I think w/ the 22K (23.5k in 2022) for uni fees, 10k for college and 10K for living all in UK sterling, it will be like $56k. Living expenses seem to be room, board, some going out, grocery shopping and some travel from what I can gather. Of course, travel would be more expensive from the US.


I am aware of the various costs for courses of study. (I listed the cost of DD's course in the post). The figures PP (who brought up the various costs) mentioned don't include college fees or living expenses. That's what I'm trying to sort out.


Yes, Cambridge does take undergrads from the US (to PP who said they didn't). Mine is finishing some entrance exams and has interview scheduled. IB is the clearest means of applying (w/ predicted grades), but non-IB students w/ high SATs and 5 APs w/ 5s can be accepted to study as well. Don't need the 5 5s in hand, but will need them by summer to confirm any offers. IB grades will need to be confirmed in summer as well.

OP, what is the draw of Cambridge for your DC? Interested as we have two sets of good friends who are a mix of Ox/Bridge grads. All now work in the States. Neither set encouraged their DCs to apply to their unis, largely because they think it is a hindrance for employment in the States. Frankly, they discouraged them. One of the dads really lucked out with a tippy top corporate job but he is the first to say that luck played a huge role in his career. Two are academics/researchers in high demand fields, but that's pretty much the exception not the rule.

Seems to make sense for a post-grad degree, but possibly dicey for a BA/BS if planning to work in US.

She really loves the idea of studying there, and we have family in the UK, including Cambridge alums. have reservations, more for the focus of study than the job connections. She is a UK citizen, so I could see her staying in the UK.

Got it. DCs of one set of friends also UK citizens, but the kids don't seem to see a professional life there post-Brexit. GL to your DD!

I would not unduly worry about Brexit. London is London regardless of what happens. All the major firms recruit from Oxbridge and that isn't changing either.

Failure of imagination. London's future looks like Rome's present (but with worse food and weather, of course).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was hoping to hear from someone w/ a kid there to confirm. Anyone out there?

From my research, I think w/ the 22K (23.5k in 2022) for uni fees, 10k for college and 10K for living all in UK sterling, it will be like $56k. Living expenses seem to be room, board, some going out, grocery shopping and some travel from what I can gather. Of course, travel would be more expensive from the US.


I am aware of the various costs for courses of study. (I listed the cost of DD's course in the post). The figures PP (who brought up the various costs) mentioned don't include college fees or living expenses. That's what I'm trying to sort out.


Yes, Cambridge does take undergrads from the US (to PP who said they didn't). Mine is finishing some entrance exams and has interview scheduled. IB is the clearest means of applying (w/ predicted grades), but non-IB students w/ high SATs and 5 APs w/ 5s can be accepted to study as well. Don't need the 5 5s in hand, but will need them by summer to confirm any offers. IB grades will need to be confirmed in summer as well.

OP, what is the draw of Cambridge for your DC? Interested as we have two sets of good friends who are a mix of Ox/Bridge grads. All now work in the States. Neither set encouraged their DCs to apply to their unis, largely because they think it is a hindrance for employment in the States. Frankly, they discouraged them. One of the dads really lucked out with a tippy top corporate job but he is the first to say that luck played a huge role in his career. Two are academics/researchers in high demand fields, but that's pretty much the exception not the rule.

Seems to make sense for a post-grad degree, but possibly dicey for a BA/BS if planning to work in US.

She really loves the idea of studying there, and we have family in the UK, including Cambridge alums. have reservations, more for the focus of study than the job connections. She is a UK citizen, so I could see her staying in the UK.

Got it. DCs of one set of friends also UK citizens, but the kids don't seem to see a professional life there post-Brexit. GL to your DD!

I would not unduly worry about Brexit. London is London regardless of what happens. All the major firms recruit from Oxbridge and that isn't changing either.

I'm a PP with two sets of Oxbridge friends and both discouraged their DCs from applying b/c the networking, recruiting, etc is a LOT more difficult. One of them is highly successful and still acknowledges that luck played a role due to the challenges. Also, the jury is still out on Brexit. Brussels is waging war on getting in on the derivatives market, etc. And the Dutch, French, and Germans have all respectively made inroads in equities, hedge funds, and banking. Again, jury is still out, but it is not 2015.

Good lord, you really stand by your n of 2. I don't take huge stock in rankings but you're just tiresome.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/press-releases/global-employability-rankings-2021

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Anonymous wrote:For us, Oxbridge is attractive financially as it is for academics and prestige. We're US citizens, but even as an international student, three years at a UK college will be cheaper or at least on par with full-pay private college Stateside. A liberal arts degree is three years, so there's cost cutting there too. For the price, three years at Oxbridge will be a much more eye-opening and learning experience than spending four years at a mid-tier US college.

If DC were to get a generous scholarship here, or get into an Ivy, then that would be a different matter.

OP here. Mine is applying for a 4 year program, so not as cost effective unless we can get home rate for the 4th year maybe. She is also applying for colleges in the US. I would rather she study here for the breadth of the US system (I went to Oxford, just fyi to the snots on this thread who think I don't get the difference between US and UK programs), but there is also a wealth in the EC life, not just the course of study, so I agree it would be an eye-opening learning experience. It just would have more subject depth and less academic breadth.

So she doesn't have the equivalent of Latin A level? That's the only time they require four years.

[Anonymous]

This thread really is the worst of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was hoping to hear from someone w/ a kid there to confirm. Anyone out there?

From my research, I think w/ the 22K (23.5k in 2022) for uni fees, 10k for college and 10K for living all in UK sterling, it will be like $56k. Living expenses seem to be room, board, some going out, grocery shopping and some travel from what I can gather. Of course, travel would be more expensive from the US.


I am aware of the various costs for courses of study. (I listed the cost of DD's course in the post). The figures PP (who brought up the various costs) mentioned don't include college fees or living expenses. That's what I'm trying to sort out.


Yes, Cambridge does take undergrads from the US (to PP who said they didn't). Mine is finishing some entrance exams and has interview scheduled. IB is the clearest means of applying (w/ predicted grades), but non-IB students w/ high SATs and 5 APs w/ 5s can be accepted to study as well. Don't need the 5 5s in hand, but will need them by summer to confirm any offers. IB grades will need to be confirmed in summer as well.

Just to be clear to other readers, the 5s on five AP tests have to be in related fields to the proposed course of study. And that is the minimum, just like the 3.7 based on a 4.0 is a minimum. And a 750 on the SAT or 33 on the ACT is the minimum. The student in FCPS whom I knew went had 15 AP courses, 800s on the SAT and near-perfect GPA .

[Anonymous]

To OP - just a comment if money is an issue for you. I have a grad student at Oxford. Total cost for two years will be about $125,000. No problem but what surprised me was that Oxford wanted a certified letter from our bank or CPA proving that we could pay for the full two years. I've never heard of an American School requiring that. Then Oxford wanted all of its tuition upfront in October. Fortunately, we knew that was coming so had DC's savings and ours ready to go. Room and board is paid monthly to the College. Check and see how you pay for Cambridge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re so knowledgeable about the process, not sure why you needed to post in the first place. If you have Cantab connections, not sure why you couldn’t reach out to someone who would know a current student or two so you could get visibility into costs for an American. The basic financial information is on the website.
Weird.

Because I am not knowledgeable about current costs. Please learn to read. I NEVER asked about the process. I asked about current costs. The financial info on the uni and college websites was not entirely clear -- sometimes there are 2 cost sections, sometimes a third for in'tl (which is vague in description), and it's different from Home. Many people, including some who posted on this thread, added the sections up incorrectly. Very thankful to the current parent who weighed. You, on the other hand, have offered nothing, so why post at all? Really weird. Move on.

DP but you're not paying attention - the costs on the actual website for Cambs are crystal clear. That's where everyone has got the info they're sharing with you. So really it's you who is wasting all our time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was hoping to hear from someone w/ a kid there to confirm. Anyone out there?

From my research, I think w/ the 22K (23.5k in 2022) for uni fees, 10k for college and 10K for living all in UK sterling, it will be like $56k. Living expenses seem to be room, board, some going out, grocery shopping and some travel from what I can gather. Of course, travel would be more expensive from the US.


I am aware of the various costs for courses of study. (I listed the cost of DD's course in the post). The figures PP (who brought up the various costs) mentioned don't include college fees or living expenses. That's what I'm trying to sort out.


Yes, Cambridge does take undergrads from the US (to PP who said they didn't). Mine is finishing some entrance exams and has interview scheduled. IB is the clearest means of applying (w/ predicted grades), but non-IB students w/ high SATs and 5 APs w/ 5s can be accepted to study as well. Don't need the 5 5s in hand, but will need them by summer to confirm any offers. IB grades will need to be confirmed in summer as well.

OP, what is the draw of Cambridge for your DC? Interested as we have two sets of good friends who are a mix of Ox/Bridge grads. All now work in the States. Neither set encouraged their DCs to apply to their unis, largely because they think it is a hindrance for employment in the States. Frankly, they discouraged them. One of the dads really lucked out with a tippy top corporate job but he is the first to say that luck played a huge role in his career. Two are academics/researchers in high demand fields, but that's pretty much the exception not the rule.

Seems to make sense for a post-grad degree, but possibly dicey for a BA/BS if planning to work in US.

She really loves the idea of studying there, and we have family in the UK, including Cambridge alums. have reservations, more for the focus of study than the job connections. She is a UK citizen, so I could see her staying in the UK.

Got it. DCs of one set of friends also UK citizens, but the kids don't seem to see a professional life there post-Brexit. GL to your DD!

I would not unduly worry about Brexit. London is London regardless of what happens. All the major firms recruit from Oxbridge and that isn't changing either.

Failure of imagination. London's future looks like Rome's present (but with worse food and weather, of course).

That's funny. It was true in the 1970s. Food in London was atrocious but now it is one of the best dining cities of the world (as is the rest of England) it sort of exploded in terms of international cuisine from the early 90s onwards. Never mind Grandma, you keep to the tales of the old country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For us, Oxbridge is attractive financially as it is for academics and prestige. We're US citizens, but even as an international student, three years at a UK college will be cheaper or at least on par with full-pay private college Stateside. A liberal arts degree is three years, so there's cost cutting there too. For the price, three years at Oxbridge will be a much more eye-opening and learning experience than spending four years at a mid-tier US college.

If DC were to get a generous scholarship here, or get into an Ivy, then that would be a different matter.

OP here. Mine is applying for a 4 year program, so not as cost effective unless we can get home rate for the 4th year maybe. She is also applying for colleges in the US. I would rather she study here for the breadth of the US system (I went to Oxford, just fyi to the snots on this thread who think I don't get the difference between US and UK programs), but there is also a wealth in the EC life, not just the course of study, so I agree it would be an eye-opening learning experience. It just would have more subject depth and less academic breadth.

How vulgar. Are you sure you attended Oxford? Was it Oxford Poly by any chance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I was hoping to hear from someone w/ a kid there to confirm. Anyone out there?

From my research, I think w/ the 22K (23.5k in 2022) for uni fees, 10k for college and 10K for living all in UK sterling, it will be like $56k. Living expenses seem to be room, board, some going out, grocery shopping and some travel from what I can gather. Of course, travel would be more expensive from the US.


I am aware of the various costs for courses of study. (I listed the cost of DD's course in the post). The figures PP (who brought up the various costs) mentioned don't include college fees or living expenses. That's what I'm trying to sort out.


Yes, Cambridge does take undergrads from the US (to PP who said they didn't). Mine is finishing some entrance exams and has interview scheduled. IB is the clearest means of applying (w/ predicted grades), but non-IB students w/ high SATs and 5 APs w/ 5s can be accepted to study as well. Don't need the 5 5s in hand, but will need them by summer to confirm any offers. IB grades will need to be confirmed in summer as well.

OP, what is the draw of Cambridge for your DC? Interested as we have two sets of good friends who are a mix of Ox/Bridge grads. All now work in the States. Neither set encouraged their DCs to apply to their unis, largely because they think it is a hindrance for employment in the States. Frankly, they discouraged them. One of the dads really lucked out with a tippy top corporate job but he is the first to say that luck played a huge role in his career. Two are academics/researchers in high demand fields, but that's pretty much the exception not the rule.

Seems to make sense for a post-grad degree, but possibly dicey for a BA/BS if planning to work in US.

She really loves the idea of studying there, and we have family in the UK, including Cambridge alums. have reservations, more for the focus of study than the job connections. She is a UK citizen, so I could see her staying in the UK.

Got it. DCs of one set of friends also UK citizens, but the kids don't seem to see a professional life there post-Brexit. GL to your DD!

I would not unduly worry about Brexit. London is London regardless of what happens. All the major firms recruit from Oxbridge and that isn't changing either.

Failure of imagination. London's future looks like Rome's present (but with worse food and weather, of course).

That's funny. It was true in the 1970s. Food in London was atrocious but now it is one of the best dining cities of the world (as is the rest of England) it sort of exploded in terms of international cuisine from the early 90s onwards. Never mind Grandma, you keep to the tales of the old country.

I'll grant you that 2020s London food is better than 1990s London food. But better than Rome's? No. One of the best dining cities in the world? Don't be ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To OP - just a comment if money is an issue for you. I have a grad student at Oxford. Total cost for two years will be about $125,000. No problem but what surprised me was that Oxford wanted a certified letter from our bank or CPA proving that we could pay for the full two years. I've never heard of an American School requiring that. Then Oxford wanted all of its tuition upfront in October. Fortunately, we knew that was coming so had DC's savings and ours ready to go. Room and board is paid monthly to the College. Check and see how you pay for Cambridge.

Cambridge parent here (undergrad, though). Yes, this is generally the same at Cambridge. We needed proof of ability to pay the first year including living expenses (we were asked for a bank statement and letter from employers re: salaries) and they do charge up front for university and college fees. Room and board is assessed termly at my DC's college.