to think that it does matter which university you go to?

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My godson is brilliant. Bright, articulate, good-natured, good at sport and academic. He got 11A*s at GCSE. His school has told me he should apply to Oxbridge. He wants to do law.

His parents have basically conducted a campaign to discourage him. Why? As far as I can tell down to a really unpleasant reverse snobbery (Reading was good enough for me, it should be good enough for you, sort of thing). His dad maintains that all universities are as good as each other these days. AIBU in think that as the world and his wife go to university these days and now ones seem to spring up like mushrooms after rain, it matters even more that, if you can, you should take your chance to go to one of the top ones?

I am actually quite cross but it's not my business

I too hate this inverted snobbery which is a major barrier to social mobility.

Oxbridge take a higher ratio of state school pupils than they get applications from but they cant take people who don't apply.

I was lucky to come from a really good state school which hugely encouraged Oxbridge applications (including getting ex pupils who were at Oxbridge to come in to allay fears that it would be full of posh people who wouldnt speak to you). In contrast, a friend was really discouraged by her school ("it's not for the likes of us" bollox), applied anyway, got in and loved it.

Anyone who think all Unis are viewed equally by employers really does not know what they're talking about.Godson should def apply to Cambridge (or that other place that some people go to that's not quite as good.... Ox..Ox-something )

Hey artic! I agree with you. But godson fancied the Ox.... place

YANBU.