<p>Oxbridge arguably serve as the top destinations for British students (though many top British students now see American schools as pinnacles beyond Oxbridge). The two universities have approximately 24,000 undergrads in a country with a population of about 61 million.</p>
<p>Besides HYPSM, Columbia, Dartmouth, Caltech, Brown, William, and Amherst, what colleges in the US, which has five times the population as United Kingdom, is equivalent to Oxbridge? The undergraduate populations at the above schools add up to approximately 46,000, suggesting more schools can be added to the list.</p>
<p>Honestly, only colleges like Harvard and maybe Yale can successfully compete on the same level as Oxford. Other colleges in the US simply don’t have the prestige or history to claim that title.</p>
<p>aabbcc1789 - That’s definitely not true. Oxford and Cambridge used to be world’s top students’ top destinations, but that time has long passed. Ivy Plus has been the the most desirable destination for the world’s best students now. When I was at UWC, Oxford and Cambridge were a lot less desirable than the Ivy League for top students, because American colleges are a lot richer and give out a lot of financial aid. Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, etc. lose an overwhelming majority of their cross-admits to Ivy Plus colleges. Most of the ones who decided to attend Oxbridge didn’t get financial aid at Ivies and believed they can save a lot of money graduating from Oxbridge in 3 years.</p>
<p>What distinguishes Oxbridge is not only prestige and longevity but also a tutorial style of education, with earlier concentration in the field of interest than is customary in American colleges. In this respect, there really is not any American college quite like Oxford or Cambridge. The Oxbridge admissions process also is rather different from any American school’s, as far as I know. Very few if any American colleges will look at your grades and test scores, ignore your extracurriculars, but sit you down for an interview and ask you questions like, “What happens when you drop an ant?” In American academia, Chicago’s oddball essay questions are about the closest thing I know to those notorious (and now outdated??) Oxbridge interview questions.</p>
<p>Both American and British university systems are very top heavy. Assuming Americans are just as smart as the British, a lot of American schools are equivalent to Oxbridge simply because each American college has a lot less undergrads and the United States has 5 times the population of the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Well, Harvard grads get as many (if not more) opportunities as Oxbridge grads. MIT grads get just as many patents (if not more) than Oxbridge grads. Dartmouth grads make just as much (if not more) than Oxbridge grads. Caltech grads score just as well (if not better) on the GRE as Oxbridge grads.</p>
<p>All these schools are roughly on the same level. Cambridge is one of the best places to study English literature, history, etc., while Swarthmore showers research opportunities on its undergrads. Therefore, it’s pointless to argue that Cambridge grads have more opportunities than Swathmore grads or that Swarthmore grads have more opportunities than Cambridge grads.</p>
<p>Georgetown with its requirement for three SAT IIs, and its AP/IB respecting environment, is most anaogous to Oxford and Cambrdge with their requirement for 3 A levels, and would likely have the freshman class with the most students doing advanced work at the Oxbridge level, particulalry in its College and School of Foreign Service.</p>
<p>lol did you honestly need to tell me i’m wrong after someone wrote it like 4 posts ago in a much kinder post supported with reasons as to why i’m wrong? c’mon…</p>