It is like assuming Trump affects Harvard.
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Oxbridge gets desperate enough>> You wish, LOL.
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Agreed. I was just saying it’d take something really drastic for undergrad admissions to start factoring in the decline of their research ranking…such as Oxbridge admitting Barney or undergrads with similar demonstrated levels of intellect into their hallowed undergraduate halls.
I can just imagine how an Oxbridge Prof with an impressive research regimen/reputation would react when in acting as Barney’s tutor one week and attempts to divert the tutor’s attention from the fact he hasn’t written anything or wrote such gibberish in that weekly tutorial paper that he starts lauching himself into that infamous “I love you…” song.
I don’t think Trump attended Harvard. However, he is affecting Wharton judging by what several Wharton alums have reported*.
- Mainly being targets of much ribbing/teasing from colleagues, friends, and even a few SOs/spouses.
@cobrat: You see some profs and departments who are among the tops in their field at some state schools that are just a little bit more selective than open-admissions, so I don’t think this is a concern among Oxbridge faculty. Funding is the much bigger concern.
I would think that barrier of entry would be insurmountable for Barney or students with the same demonstrated levels of intellect…
@cobrat: In which case, it’s not worth throwing your Barney example out there. Oxbridge won’t ever come close to becoming slightly above open-admissions for anyone, much less below that level.
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My point was it’d take something THAT drastic at the undergrad level at Oxbridge admissions for it to factor into the decline of their research ranking.
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Oh dear. you missed the point entirely LOL.
How come we are now discussing Donald Trump and Barney the dinosaur in one and the same post? :))
Is there something you know that no one else does?
Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I take it there is a consensus that Oxford and Cambridge can expect to be hurt by research funding problems, which are already in existence (certainly relative to top US privates with large endowments) but which will be exacerbated by Brexit, and possibly by losing cooperation and exchange opportunities within the EU.
Being unable to offer home fees (in state tuition, as it were) or financial aid to EU students from outside the UK (and probably having to raise home fees for UK students as well) will lose them cultural and economic diversity, but will not hurt them academically, because the pool of qualified UK candidates and qualified plus wealthy overseas candidates is sufficiently large for them to keep up standards.
Fair enough.
I always thought with Brexit, that the UK will now go back to that small insignificant country they have been for the last 1000 years.
With Brexit, it could possibly affect other EU students but the new negotiations haven’t been worked out so too early to determine what will happen.