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Private schools also much more on it with encouraging students to apply. Many good state school students won't apply even if they could get in, because their school doesn't encourage them or because they think Oxbridge "isn't for them"
The underlying problem is that there is this massive binary around whether you did/didn't go to Oxbridge which is completely unjustified. Fundamentally there are way more students who would do well at Oxbridge than there are available places, probably 3-4x as many.
Dominance of Oxbridge in UK public life is self perpetuating because the universities get first pick over the most talented students. The value added by the teaching is minimal (all the Oxbridge academics I know personally happily admit this).
Anyway sorry to everyone who followed me because of quant or crypto stuff and is now getting my opinions on the UK education system, back to normal programming soon
Not sure I agree about the massive binary. There are several top notch non-Oxbridge universities the graduates of which are heavily sought by the most prestigious employers.
Binary element on whether you went or not especially crazy given variation between degree courses. Encourages folks to apply for “easier” degrees at oxbridge vs alternatives at Russel group, since the former opens more doors...
Another question is of Oxbridge is so good for society why create such scarcity? It is the scarcity and zero sumness nepotism (rub shoulders with the advantaged) that is hard to disentangle from everything else.
Because it's not elitest if everyone can have it, is it?
fwiw as an American I don’t view Oxbridge grads as being any more clever than those of, say, LSE or Imperial. All are equally impressive IMHO.
Heck I thought Imperial was one of Oxfords colleges lol
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