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saw this amusing story about how Prince Charles's bodyguard got a degree from Cambridge https://www.quora.com/Why-do-members-of-the-British-royalty-not-attend-O
by huac 9y ago
saw this amusing story about how Prince Charles's bodyguard got a degree from Cambridge https://www.quora.com/Why-do-members-of-the-British-royalty-not-attend-Oxford-or-Cambridge-Does-that-mean-these-are-not-the-best-universities-in-the-UK/answer/Alex-Davis-149 https://www.quora.com/Why-do-members-of-the-British-royalty-...
- stordoff 9y agoWorth noting that "for a standard undergraduate degree there are specific and strict academic requirements for admission to Oxford and Cambridge" isn't strictly true. A College can vary the admission criteria as it sees fit, and EE/unconditional offers can and have been given. https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/entrance-requirements https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/entrance-...
- mikhailfranco 9y agoI think those low offers were typical in the days of the separate entrance exam. I took the (4th term) undergraduate entrance exam for Oxford. When I got the telegram "not required for interview at Oxford" I thought I had failed. But then got accepted with an EE offer (two minimum-pass E grades at A-level) without the need for an interview.
- lozenge 9y agoNowadays the low offers are for those competing in the International Maths Olympiad and similar competitions, so they can spend less time on the irrelevant A Levels.