Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oxford is overrated if we are being honest

Come on, a lot of us have worked with Oxford colleagues in consulting and finance on joint projects (uk placements and in the us) and American hypsm in American offices are LOT stronger

Im truly puzzled why Oxford is ranked so high

You're probably too provincial. The great thing about Oxford is it doesn't consider legacies or athletes in their admissions unlike hypsm. That is a distinctly American practice.

How am I being provincial when I’m bringing up cross border work?

I’m not talking about admissions processes

I’m talking about actual output and talent in a commercial environment

Your anecdotal experience doesn’t detract from Oxford’s reputation which btw doesn’t produce a lot of finance people like HYPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oxford is overrated if we are being honest

Come on, a lot of us have worked with Oxford colleagues in consulting and finance on joint projects (uk placements and in the us) and American hypsm in American offices are LOT stronger

Im truly puzzled why Oxford is ranked so high

You're probably too provincial. The great thing about Oxford is it doesn't consider legacies or athletes in their admissions unlike hypsm. That is a distinctly American practice.

Also, the acceptance rates in UK can be misleading. Most top universities in UK have a minimum benchmark in terms of grades you need to have even to be considered for a program. Unless one has A or A* some of the programs will not even look at the application.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oxford is overrated if we are being honest

Come on, a lot of us have worked with Oxford colleagues in consulting and finance on joint projects (uk placements and in the us) and American hypsm in American offices are LOT stronger

Im truly puzzled why Oxford is ranked so high

You're probably too provincial. The great thing about Oxford is it doesn't consider legacies or athletes in their admissions unlike hypsm. That is a distinctly American practice.

How am I being provincial when I’m bringing up cross border work?

I’m not talking about admissions processes

I’m talking about actual output and talent in a commercial environment

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oxford is overrated if we are being honest

Come on, a lot of us have worked with Oxford colleagues in consulting and finance on joint projects (uk placements and in the us) and American hypsm in American offices are LOT stronger

Im truly puzzled why Oxford is ranked so high

You're probably too provincial. The great thing about Oxford is it doesn't consider legacies or athletes in their admissions unlike hypsm. That is a distinctly American practice.

Never really understood why the ability to throw a ball accurately would make you a great student at HYPSM

Anonymous wrote:Oxford is overrated if we are being honest

Come on, a lot of us have worked with Oxford colleagues in consulting and finance on joint projects (uk placements and in the us) and American hypsm in American offices are LOT stronger

Im truly puzzled why Oxford is ranked so high

You're probably too provincial. The great thing about Oxford is it doesn't consider legacies or athletes in their admissions unlike hypsm. That is a distinctly American practice.

Oxford is overrated if we are being honest

Come on, a lot of us have worked with Oxford colleagues in consulting and finance on joint projects (uk placements and in the us) and American hypsm in American offices are LOT stronger

Im truly puzzled why Oxford is ranked so high

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The darlings of DCUM (Emory, Tufts, Vanderbilt, Northeastern, Georgetown) are all ranked quite low!

You left out Rice, NYU, USC, ND, Wash U, Tulane. They will feel left out since all of them pretend to be top schools when they are all top 50 wannabes.

I'd say that the top 100 (at a minimum) out of 1904 universities (top 5%) in the world would be quite impressive, unless of course you have an exe to grind:

NYU 27
WashU 68
USC 74
Vanderbilt 92
Emory 106
Rice 119
Georgetown 187
Tufts 191
Notre Dame 199
Northeastern 201-250
Tulane 401-500

Anonymous wrote:The darlings of DCUM (Emory, Tufts, Vanderbilt, Northeastern, Georgetown) are all ranked quite low!

They are good undergrad schools with some very good grad schools (Fletcher, GULC, Peabody, not so much NE) but they are not the well-rounded research institutions that do especially well with THE.

I wonder if UVA made top 200?