<p>Flip a coin and decide. If you don't like your gut reaction from your result, go with the other choice. Good luck, and congrats on your admission to both!</p>
<p>wow. You've gotten into both... amazing. nice job.
I'd say choose stanford - awesome weather, awesome school, and I might go there so it will rock :p</p>
<p>ughh i can imagine wat ure going thru rite now dreamer9, im so very very confused myself, so ure in singapore huh? interesting...did u ask for aid at stanford? and btw oxford is pretty expensive rite, its wat 20grand a year, and with the new pound rate too!!!
did u go there for the interview..i went and its soooo beautiful, its like love at first sight..hehe :P ive never seen stanford so cant say much thr...</p>
<p>yeh I've been to Oxford but not for the interview (they actually send their tutors to Singapore for that because there are so many applicants here). Both campuses are beautiful... seen Stanford too! I didn't apply for aid at Stanford. I actually did GCSE and IGCSE's too, but did IB instead of A levels.</p>
<p>um. Oxford is the oldest university in the world, and probably the most prestigious. but you could go to stanford and just become a Rhodes scholar or Marshall scholar and study there for two years, no big deal. =)</p>
<p>o. and Oxford is waayyyyyy more than 20grand per year. more like 50+grand</p>
<p>Actually, Oxford costs significantly less than most US universities, as long as you're not depending on financial aid. </p>
<p>Definitely place a deposit at a US school. Speaking from experience, you want to have a back up that you feel good about in case your IB scores don't come through for you. If you miss it by a point, odds are they won't keep your place for you (true story). Good luck!</p>
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<p>I think we have Harvard, if not couple others, ahead of them in prestige. Anyway, as much as I like Stanford, SF/Palo Alto is nowhere close to London. :)</p>
<p>SF is the best city in the world to me. And I've been to London, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Munich, Berlin, NYC, Philly, Chicago, and Seoul. Nothing comes close to the beauty and culture of San Francisco in my opinion. There's something about the friendliness of the city that cannot be matched.</p>
<p>sicarii, i meant 20 grand brit pounds..its that for international students, but if ure british depending on ure family income its 1500 to 5000 pounds approx, i mean suppose ure parents earn below 15000pounds a year then the govt finances u completely, and thr are oxford bursaries, hardship fundds n all tht...
so even tho stanford has given me loadza aid studing in the us will still be so much mr expensive than the uk, for me..
i think in US state unis do the same thing rite, lower fees for instate students, higher for out of state...rite?</p>
<p>and anyway london is abt 100 miles i think, from oxford, it costs 16pounds (return ticket) to go to london, which is NOT an affrodable price wen ure a student - so as a student at oxford, u wudnt go to london durin the term...wen the term breaks then the college no longer accomodates u and u hv to find ure own lodging for the holidays, thts wen ppl decide to go to london, generally cuz family is thr n temporary lodging is cheaper.....
and ive heard a plane ticket from stanford to LA costs 30dollars...which is cheaper rite?</p>
<p>yeah your right about state schools giving local students lower fees, especially for schools in the california system. also travel from palo alto (stanford) to LA by plane is really, but even cheaper by train.</p>
<p>lol rash, just go to stanford......</p>
<p>stanford beats oxford any day!</p>
<p>Hey Dreamer9, sorry a little off topic...you wouldnt have happen to have attended the JSA summer School at Stanford this summer and studied Comparitive Government?</p>
<p>yeh she did.... she went to that.</p>
<p>yeh i did! how come?</p>
<p>o dude. u know someone just imed me.. this girl jennifer who did JSA.. we're jus talking now.. but umm yeh she said she was in potter?
she's half korean half white..
do u remember her? she says she doesn't recall you but will probably remmeber u if she looks at the book</p>
<p>Does Oxford accept American high school grads. I don't know of any Americans who apply to Oxford out of high school.</p>
<p>ive heard of some that do.. oxford does their own tests and interviews so i think american HS people can apply there.. i dont see why not.</p>
<p>Small World Dreamer9, I was in your class...LoL (try to remember the one Persian in the class)</p>
<p>ahhh this is so weird...this whole college confidential place. I went to JSA as well and i did AP Government, cybero I remember you (hah now that i've talked to you.) Rashna, I don't remember you, but your roomate Preethi was in my Congressional house thing. </p>
<p>It's funny you got into both Oxford and Stanford---cuz that's exactly how i spent my two past summers. Sophomore year I went to Oxford and loved it. I did the Oxford Tradition program and I lived at Pembroke College. I have family in ENgland so I ended up spending a longer time there---and the country is awesome, but of course I think the USA is better any day. The university is a lot more upbeat and bustling with activity. There's sooo much history there and I bet you'd discover something new about the place everyday. The one downside is, I heard undergraduate education is not the best there---while graduate education is? Anyhow, that's about all I know just from going to a summer school, and not the actual college.</p>
<p>Stanford, well you already know the campus, the atmosphere. It's just a very well rounded good school, and I bet you'd be really happy there. If i were you, I'd choose Stanford. It has good undergrad programs...and it's in Cali, and I live in Cali and love it and don't want to leave. The weather is beautiful as you remember, while in England it rains all the time. And obviously, jsut comparing the two countries, I think there'd be plenty more opportunities available to you in this country than in England. </p>
<p>You seem really smart, so why don't you go to Stanford for the time being and then be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford? haha</p>