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Know a couple Oxford grads, not that impressive. Why is this place "prestigious"

They are only there for 3 years, this one girl was an oxford...
Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge
  01/19/17
Don't be mean to peterman!
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so wtf did she do all day with her tutor (or is that cambrid...
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  01/19/17
yeah they have that there i dont understand how it works
Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge
  01/19/17
they have tutorials maybe 2-3 times a week for around 22 wee...
Cordovan Lay
  01/19/17
its very chill and you actually get freedom to pursue shit y...
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  01/19/17
Are they British? Isnt it basically a cash grab when they a...
Maroon Aromatic Set
  01/19/17
european but not british. maybe you're right
Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge
  01/19/17
undergraduate admissions is MORE competitive for internation...
Cordovan Lay
  01/19/17
cr
brilliant casino weed whacker
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TITCR. Most Oxford study abroad programs are huge cash co...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
"Many of them don't even have any direct affiliation wi...
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Oxford and Cambridge are collegiate universities. The indivi...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
no masters programs are run by individual colleges, to my kn...
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  01/19/17
I don't think anyone refers to a master's program as "s...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
and they get to say "...during my time at oxford" ...
green gay wizard
  01/19/17
Someone who does this after spending their junior year abroa...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
...
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  01/19/17
UK system is TTT harder to get into northwestern as a US ...
turquoise codepig
  01/19/17
we're talking about Oxford here
Stubborn electric pistol library
  01/19/17
same
turquoise codepig
  01/19/17
Oxbridge= oxford or cambridge
slap-happy juggernaut heaven
  01/19/17
UK system = go to class for 6 weeks and write one final ...
turquoise codepig
  01/19/17
it's called a "Rhodes scholar" ship. very prestigi...
Stubborn electric pistol library
  01/19/17
That's not everyone at Oxford by a longshot though. A big...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
there are plenty of rich idiots there, it's still mostly cla...
razzle church
  01/19/17
selection is based purely on academic merit.
Cordovan Lay
  01/19/17
(Jonah Lehrer)
brilliant casino weed whacker
  01/19/17
?
Cordovan Lay
  01/19/17
And whether you're a blue blood
slap-happy juggernaut heaven
  01/19/17
Oxbridge is larger relative to UK pop than the top of the iv...
Pearly School
  01/19/17
(Although I gotta say the HUG and YUG students at my termina...
Pearly School
  01/19/17
Top students at HUG and YUG generally have better options th...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
its in tttt decline. hundreds of years ago it was an ins...
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  01/19/17
Circle jerk
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There was an article a few years back by a couple of HUGs wh...
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  01/19/17
...
brilliant casino weed whacker
  01/19/17
lol, link?
drab jew
  01/19/17
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/25/oxford-blues-to-...
excitant prole
  01/19/17
"You will likely spend most of your time in touch with ...
brilliant casino weed whacker
  01/19/17
To be fair, they seem to be excoriated in the comments.
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
I think even a 3rd tier UC is more rigorous than oxford
Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge
  01/19/17
knew a chick who accepted a year abroad at oxford so she cou...
turquoise codepig
  01/19/17
...
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  01/19/17
ljl
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(girl who rode the stopping service seething about the "...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
I'm sure there are good programs and students at oxford but ...
olive irradiated theatre mother
  01/19/17
keep talking shit about the said school of business bro.
green gay wizard
  01/19/17
Yeah Said, whilst not among the very top-top tier of busines...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17
Msc Finance bros do well, Said is not amazing, but its not b...
brilliant casino weed whacker
  01/19/17
Oxbridge is one of the bigger jokes in higher education. Hal...
Mauve death wish
  01/19/17
"UCL. Imperial. LSE." The ether flowed through hi...
Rough-skinned contagious den round eye
  01/19/17
it's like going to cornell
Frozen motley telephone property
  01/19/17
If Cornell were the top university in its country with 900 y...
filthy sandwich
  01/19/17


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Date: January 19th, 2017 12:06 PM
Author: Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge

They are only there for 3 years, this one girl was an oxford linguistics grad and didn't even know the basics of morphology.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32406603)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 12:08 PM
Author: godawful soul-stirring genital piercing

Don't be mean to peterman!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32406613)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:52 PM
Author: Spectacular sadistic milk



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407827)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:31 PM
Author: Alcoholic lake pit famous landscape painting

so wtf did she do all day with her tutor (or is that cambridge?)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407655)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:48 PM
Author: Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge

yeah they have that there i dont understand how it works

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407781)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:23 PM
Author: Cordovan Lay

they have tutorials maybe 2-3 times a week for around 22 weeks a year. lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408660)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:24 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

its very chill and you actually get freedom to pursue shit youre interested in, just have to cram for exam period

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408667)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:31 PM
Author: Maroon Aromatic Set

Are they British? Isnt it basically a cash grab when they admit non-British or at least non-euro students?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407659)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:33 PM
Author: Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge

european but not british. maybe you're right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407668)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:25 PM
Author: Cordovan Lay

undergraduate admissions is MORE competitive for internationals than british students. they make the $$$ from masters degrees and study abroad programs.

study abroad = people from TTT ug go to oxford for one term, get access to student facilities and maybe 2 hours of tutor time a week for US style fees. great cash cow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408673)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:25 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408679)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:25 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

TITCR.

Most Oxford study abroad programs are huge cash cows. Many of them don't even have any direct affiliation with the university and are just run by individual colleges.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409179)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:26 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

"Many of them don't even have any direct affiliation with the university and are just run by individual colleges."

what?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409185)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:32 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

Oxford and Cambridge are collegiate universities. The individual colleges are very important. Many (most?) study-abroad programs are run by individual colleges, which may contract out the use of their their dining hall, etc. to programs which are not even taught by Oxford faculty or staff (or if they are, it's done so on a moonlighting basis to pick up a few extra quid on the side--this is actually pretty common to be fair) run by third parties.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409232)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:35 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

no masters programs are run by individual colleges, to my knowledge, but your study abroad point is correct

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409265)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:40 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

I don't think anyone refers to a master's program as "study abroad".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409304)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:35 PM
Author: green gay wizard

and they get to say "...during my time at oxford" for the rest of their lives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409258)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:42 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

Someone who does this after spending their junior year abroad, or whatever, is likely insufferable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409319)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 7:05 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409880)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:37 PM
Author: turquoise codepig

UK system is TTT

harder to get into northwestern as a US white male than Oxbridge as UK white male

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407700)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:43 PM
Author: Stubborn electric pistol library

we're talking about Oxford here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407742)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 3:42 PM
Author: turquoise codepig

same

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408276)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 7:01 PM
Author: slap-happy juggernaut heaven

Oxbridge= oxford or cambridge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409851)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:41 PM
Author: turquoise codepig

UK system =

go to class for 6 weeks and write one final exam

easy as SHIT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407732)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:43 PM
Author: Stubborn electric pistol library

it's called a "Rhodes scholar" ship. very prestigious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407748)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:26 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

That's not everyone at Oxford by a longshot though.

A big part of the lay prestige of Oxford in the United States is that for a long time almost the only *Americans* who went there were Rhodes and Marshall Scholars.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409188)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 2:52 PM
Author: razzle church

there are plenty of rich idiots there, it's still mostly class oriented

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407823)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:25 PM
Author: Cordovan Lay

selection is based purely on academic merit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408683)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:27 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

(Jonah Lehrer)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408696)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:27 PM
Author: Cordovan Lay

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408708)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 7:02 PM
Author: slap-happy juggernaut heaven

And whether you're a blue blood

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409854)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 3:00 PM
Author: Pearly School

Oxbridge is larger relative to UK pop than the top of the ivy league to US, so unsurprising they'd be less selective.

Some genuinely room temperature iq peeps on the cash cow terminal masters courses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32407920)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 10:22 PM
Author: Pearly School

(Although I gotta say the HUG and YUG students at my terminal masters program at Oxbridge were unimpressive.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32411606)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 11:33 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

Top students at HUG and YUG generally have better options than Oxbridge (unless on a competitive fellowship, which is of course a different case).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32412184)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 3:39 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

its in tttt decline.

hundreds of years ago it was an institution where men learned. scholarship, church, and athletics were valued above all else.

today its a for profit shithole, with for profit masters for ttt international students as a major driver of its decline.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408246)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:26 PM
Author: slippery factory reset button hell

Circle jerk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408694)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:47 PM
Author: excitant prole

There was an article a few years back by a couple of HUGs who went to Oxford as Rhodes Scholars and couldn't get over how shitty it was. They basically said any real US university pwns Oxford in both academics and QOL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408867)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:48 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408882)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:50 PM
Author: drab jew

lol, link?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408896)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:52 PM
Author: excitant prole

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/25/oxford-blues-to-all-juniors-out/



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408918)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:07 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

"You will likely spend most of your time in touch with Harvard librarians to access materials not available at Oxford"

(guy who's never been to the bodleian)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409030)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:33 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

To be fair, they seem to be excoriated in the comments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409251)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:53 PM
Author: Insecure Appetizing Indian Lodge

I think even a 3rd tier UC is more rigorous than oxford

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408933)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 4:55 PM
Author: turquoise codepig

knew a chick who accepted a year abroad at oxford so she could live in london

she got bigwillyPWNED when she found out london was 2 hours away after she already committed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32408950)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:04 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409013)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:26 PM
Author: Translucent organic girlfriend sweet tailpipe

ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409184)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:39 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

(girl who rode the stopping service seething about the "2 hour ride" whilst sitting at Didcot Parkway station, unaware of the fast train zipping past)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409295)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:40 PM
Author: olive irradiated theatre mother

I'm sure there are good programs and students at oxford but they have opened just about every TTT backdoor imaginable: study abroads, terminal masters, etc that are open to any retard with a pulse. I always lol when some loser with a terminal masters from Oxbridge or LSE tries to front like it's a thing. LJL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409306)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 5:54 PM
Author: green gay wizard

keep talking shit about the said school of business bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32409398)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 7:28 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

Yeah Said, whilst not among the very top-top tier of business schools, places very well internationally (especially in London, of course) and only takes a year. Not a bad deal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32410054)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 7:31 PM
Author: brilliant casino weed whacker

Msc Finance bros do well, Said is not amazing, but its not bad for one year and less debt than M7. Also has a lot of PRESTIGE worldwide. I know some Americans who did this and are working in foreign countries, which could be fun

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32410072)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 9:39 PM
Author: Mauve death wish

Oxbridge is one of the bigger jokes in higher education. Half the students are dipshit Bougie legacies, another quarter are diversity colonial guilt admits, and then maybe a quarter are actually talented, although they're coming out of a relatively small pool that is far less competitive than US schools. The admission standards are a lot weaker than most other Western and Norther Euro elite schools but the age and British presumed prestige tradition of Oxbridge means they still get the most attention and slight recognition since even many proles have heard of them. Overall very unimpressive unless you're dealing with a hard science major or one of the few remaining handful of intense classical liberal arts majors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32411228)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 9:43 PM
Author: Rough-skinned contagious den round eye

"UCL. Imperial. LSE." The ether flowed through his veins.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32411282)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 9:40 PM
Author: Frozen motley telephone property

it's like going to cornell

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32411243)



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Date: January 19th, 2017 11:34 PM
Author: filthy sandwich

If Cornell were the top university in its country with 900 years of history and produced virtually all of the nation's elite, yeah, it'd be just like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3495845&forum_id=2#32412191)