<p>the colleges themselves take them seriously - Merton is quite proud of its rankings.</p>
<p>They take up less space in my college’s Annual Record than the notes on the gardens.</p>
<p>ITA with mini. The Norrington Table and Tompkins table (the Cambridge version) are just a way of the colleges monitoring each other, and a source of internal competition. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t go to Oxbridge who knows what they are, or anyobody who did go there and cares once they graduate. Do you really believe any graduate is going to be turned down at a job interview because they graduated from a college which was bottom or the Norrington table? </p>
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I’m not disputing that in any way. That’s the whole of the UK in general. It is just not as racially diverse as the US, obviously. What I am disputing is the assertion by fineartsmajormom that the UK is and extremely racially segregated on a level of the Southern USA 60 years ago. I have NEVER seen any evidence of this anywhere in the UK (In Oxford I lived opposite the largest mosque I’ve ever seen for 2 years!). I think the post by this person is extremely misleading, and bears no resemblence to my experience of being an undergraduate and graduate student in the UK for 8 years 2001-2008.</p>
<p>I forgot to say to chipbee in my post above, the most popular leagure tables in the UK and in the Time and Guardian newspapers and you can find these online. They have overall tables, and tables for specific subjects.</p>
<p>I recall reading somewhere that US applicants need a minimum 2100 on the SAT, in addition to good grades and a successful interview. As others have said, ECs don’t matter.</p>
<p>The interview is much more than a meet-and-greet information exchange.
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