<p>oxford? hypothetically speaking u were accepted to both schools. what would u choose?</p>
<p>No, because I'd hate the culture for one big reason: Soccer (well, football as they say over there)</p>
<p>really? what's with the soccer over there? idk lol</p>
<p>It's more like: brits love soccer, I don't (to put it nicely). We'd be too incompatible. As far as academics, there is effectively no difference in quality so I wouldn't be "torn" if I had to make the decision.</p>
<p>really? wow i didn't see it like that lol
i always thought oxford was much more prestigous than harvard, and this is coming from a harvard student :)</p>
<p>I wish that I had the opportunity to turn down Harvard! I've not been so lucky (well..actually I've never applied). Oxford's program in my field is currently in a state of transition...on the other hand Harvard's program is arguably the best in the US. So it would be a no brainer for me. Harvard all the way.</p>
<p>i see..lol
is oxford a better grad school? or is harvard?</p>
<p>...And about Oxford being more prestigious...I think it is the other way around. I'll be starting at Cambridge in a few months and Harvard is one of the few universities that I would go to over Cam...and Cambridge is generally considered the best university in the UK (although it is definitely debatable).</p>
<p>On a list of best overall grad school in the world (i.e. average quality of all programs) I think that Harvard would be #1 or #2 and Oxford would be #9 or #10</p>
<p>yeah true true
harvard is constantly listed as one of the best schools in the world
cambridge?? wow, that is one heck of an institution. i envy you lol</p>
<p>I think it's just a case of "the grass is greener on the other side". Of the Atlantic, that is.</p>
<p>My dream would be Harvard for undergrad and then Oxford for grad. Best of both worlds. ;)</p>
<p>I'm getting a sense of deja vu reading this thread... was this done before somewhere?<br>
Oh well. </p>
<p>Personally, I don't think Oxford would've given such a nice financial aid package as Harvard has.</p>
<p>No, I would thank God, then I would thank Allah, then I would thank Buddha, then I would thank Hare Krishna, and then I would move on to the lesser gods...</p>
<p>LOL! Harvard is definitely better than Oxford...</p>
<p>I wouldn't, but I certainly wouldn't be surprised if other people had different answers. Both schools have many great qualities.</p>
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<p>lol thats kinda warped....since Camb is generally considered the better of the 2 and even Camb is unlikely to win Dr. Avrah in cross-admits</p>
<p>Oxford is a really nice university, but it has a totally different system. You specialize right from the beginnen and get taught in really small groups, usually no more than three or four.</p>
<p>QS</a> Top Universities: Top 100 universities in the THES - QS World University Rankings 2007</p>
<p>World rankings according to The Times for 2007(British paper)</p>
<p>1 Harvard
2 Oxford
2 Yale
2 Cambridge</p>
<p>Bit of a cop-out to have 3 #2 schools, but I think they actually use numbers and such, so maybe it really did just work out that way.
From my experience, coming from a school that sends most of its kids to British or German unis, with only a handful going to the states this year, Harvard is considered a bit more prestigious. This may just be because Oxford has more people in each class, so it is much harder to get into Harvard, statistically. But, this year for example, no one really made much of a fuss when a classmate got an offer (conditional on IB scores, yeah, but an offer) from Oxford, whereas when I got into Harvard they flipped.</p>
<p>Personally, I do think US college education is better, simply because there is a more individual focus, and typically there is a broader more "liberal arts" education as opposed to specializing right off the bat. That's what grad school is for, no? College should allow for a bit of a chance to explore, because who really (like really really, really. Really. ;)) knows what they want to do for the rest of their life when they are 18?</p>
<p>I chose harvard over oxford because of its emphasis on the liberal arts. Don't forget you can only study one (or, in odd cases, two or three) subjects at oxbridge. yawn.</p>
<p>Cambridge vs. Harvard is probably going to have more mixed views, even though it's not as "universally known" as oxford (maybe not)...</p>
<p>I'd probably rather go to Cambridge than Harvard because I want to do engineering, and I think Cambridge is overall the better of the two for engineering (I may be wrong).</p>