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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP.  OP, perhaps if you asked specific questions, we could better respond.  My DC has been through the application process and schooling process [b]at Oxbridge[/b] as an American student.  It really depends on what you are asking about -- the application, the classes, the professors, the other students, the culture shock, the logistics, the job market, exmissions to grad schools, etc. [/quote]

Not an actual place. Were they at Oxford or Cambridge? [/quote]

You're dumb. Not that PP, but Oxbridge is a term used to describe the two schools. Not unlike how we refer to "the Ivies" stateside.

And armchair experts like yourself who flood threads like these are the reason why people are led to believe the UK is some superior place to send their kids for undergrad.[/quote]

Not the PP you're criticizing, but your attachment to "Oxbridge" as a term is silly. In the UK (yes, my whole family is there, I went to college there) the term gets used at times but is considered pretentious when it does turn up. And you'd be asked the same thing over there as that PP asked: Oxford or Cambridge? And then you'd be asked which college, since those universities have constituent colleges which can be quite different from each other. In fact, "Ivies" is pretty meaningless in the U.S. and gets used here mostly to indicate merely "expensive and nearly impossible to get into." Better to discuss specific universities and colleges. Why the compulsion to apply snobbish shorthand that conveys nothing truly useful?

Your tetchiness about insisting on Oxbridge, plus the whole "UK undergrad is superior" thing is...pompous. And no help to OP.

OP, as a different PP noted, can you be more specific in what you want to ask about? Thanks. [/quote]

NP: I'm going to weigh in here on why I use the term Oxbridge when posting here. 1) The application process and ways in which the schools are organized are more similar than dissimilar and are unique among UK unis; 2) Preserving the anonymity of my DC. There are so few students from this area (and the US in general) that attend either school for undergrad that a few too many details and my DC would be easily outed. When I post, I try to be helpful because knowledge about the process is scarce but, ultimately, it's not for me to publicly announce the details of my kid's schooling experience without his/her permission. [/quote]

I'm from the UK. My DH went to Oxford and my sibling went to Cambridge. Neither in their entire lives would say they attended "oxbridge" you sound like a tourist.[/quote]

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