Oxbridge 2020 (thread number 9)

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What a year! Just as we've all become experts (at least in our own minds ) about how to write Personal Statements, Oxford admission tests and Cambridge STEP, the complicated dance of the interview process, and how to simultaneously boost our DSs' and DDs' confidence while preparing them for the possibility of disappointment, we have a new topic to learn: statistical modelling of expected grades.

Of course, like all those previous topics, we're not in control of teacher projection and OfQual rejection, but we have this thread to support each other through the coming months.

All welcome. For the record, I have a DS with an Oxford offer for a humanities subject.

Yes, @KaptainKaveman, we're discussing it on thread number 10. Come and join us. (Link posted above an hour ago).

As this thread is decommissioned, I can use it to settle the age-old question: which is the superior university, Oxford or Cambridge?

It's Cambridge

No, it's Oxford.

Don't be silly, it's Cambridge.

Or it's Oxford

Definitely, Cambridge, and that's the final word.

Not the final word, because it's Oxford.

Cambridge

Oxford

Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge

Oxford, and saying it three times won't change that.

Cambridge is superior.

Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford

Cambridge, of course

Yes, but no, it's Oxford

It's Cambridge, and once you realise that I expect no further response.

Yes it's Cambridge now go away!

Oxford. As any fule kno.

Cambridge. Because why wouldn't you want to dress up in a strange shade of palest green and insist that it is blue?

Well naturally it's Cambridge, but I am sure even Oxford mathematicians know that 1000 is an even number, so to make it interesting we'll allow either university to be posted a maximum of three times in a row and see who ends the thread.

Oxford

I repeat, Oxford

But it's Cambridge

Definitely, Cambridge, and like Oxford I'll content myself with just two in a row.