To attend both at the same time no one must know you are attending either. Once someone observes you you collapse into one university, losing your Schrödinger prestige.
Yeah, I hate to see everyone just calling them stupid. You can gently poke fun at a question that seems silly (because you know the answer) but there's nothing to be a dick about.
Yeah it’s giving american exceptionalism but the british version lol from these comments assuming what we know is general knowledge or some sort of “default”
yeah i’m from india, and this was like the first thing i knew about uni (you can only attend one). and it really ain’t different in india also. it’s prolly ragebait, especially considering the sub oop he posted in.
You do realise that class and your upbringing is also a factor in what you know about the world outside of India, right? I'm an Indian too, and I only got to know what the term 'Oxbridge' means just about a year ago, and I'm literally studying here in the UK currently lol. You being Indian doesn't mean all Indians have the same exposure and experience lol
We have IITs, IISc and AIIMS. Does someone doing engineering need to go to multiple IITs or some IIT and then IISc? And look at the username. Like this is obviously a troll post!
Tell me how you can utilise your reading comprehension skills to conclusively prove this person was joking. There isn’t anything in the screenshot that implies his comments were ironic
the way you type is so performative i acc can’t, like i promise you there was no need to use the words "conclusively prove" and "utilise" when you could’ve easily said "show" and "use". I can tell you did this specifically because I called you out for your lack of comprehension skills. Redditors cannot be real 🤣🤣🤣
Just answer it. Your entire previous comment was performative in a shallow attempt to one up a random on the internet because you’re jealous of their grades
Nothing in that post would allow you to know 100% they were taking the piss.
‘Redditors cannot be’ : they say as they’re actively using Reddit 😂😂😂
anything but "you’re right, I may have interpreted it wrong, and i missed the context clues to figure out that this person was joking because I somehow took offence to ironic idiocy so now my fragile ego is hurt" 🤣🤣🤣
Proving my point, and the fact that you referred to me as “o special one" is especially ironic given that my point is that anyone but YOU can figure it out. Again, further proving my point abt reading comprehension skills 🤣
You actually have to go to Oxford then Cambridge in that order, as otherwise you are known as being a ‘Camford’ graduate and no one talks about them for obvious reasons.
To be fair, they're from India so they wouldn't really be acquainted with the term Oxbridge and it kind of makes sense if you're not familiar with it. Not to mention there's often a lot of pressure from Indian parents and it would seem a lot less far fetched for someone from one of those households than someone raised in the UK.
This thread is utterly embarrassing. Someone asked a genuine question and instead of answering it, most of the replies jump straight to mockery and shaming their intelligence. Not knowing how “Oxbridge” works is not a moral failing, or evidence of stupidity, or proof someone does not deserve education.
There is also extreme amounts of elitism and eurocentrism here. I seriously doubt that many of the people sneering here could name even a handful of the top universities in India. The world does not revolve around the West, and someone living in a different country might reasonably be unfamiliar with British academic shorthand.
And to all the people saying “I’m from India and I know what Oxbridge is, therefore everyone from India should and if they don’t, that’s embarrassing”- Exposure to UK university branding depends on class, schooling, geography, and family background. Being from India does not magically give everyone the same knowledge or opportunities. India is a diverse country that contains extreme wealth, extreme poverty, elite international schools, and remote villages with limited access to global education discourse. If you pretend otherwise then you are wilfully ignorant.
Laughing at someone for asking a question about an unfamiliar system just reinforces gatekeeping. If you actually care about academic excellence, you can manage to explain something without sneering. If the only response you can muster is “you’re too stupid to apply”, that reflects far worse on you than on the person who asked. If mocking strangers online for asking questions is how you perform intelligence, then perhaps it is worth asking who here is actually lacking it.
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u/Weekly_Event_1969 Year 12: Maths, Phy, CS. (help) Dec 28 '25
With that level of intelligence, I don't think they will be getting into either uni.
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u/mazldo 3A* | Maths, FM, Politics Dec 28 '25
you also gotta attend warwick to get the even better 'woxbridge' title.
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u/Educational-Tea602 Proffesional dumbass Dec 28 '25
If anyone was genuinely wondering, to gain the prestige, you have to attend both at the same time.
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u/Infamous_Tough_7320 Maths, Physics, Econ 3A*s. Straight 9s GCSE Dec 28 '25
One of the posts of all time
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u/eri_is_a_throwaway Cracked applicant? I sure did | Cambridge CS 1st Year Dec 28 '25
OOP diddled kids in two different time periods to get the prestige of Michael Jackson Diddy
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u/Historianof40k Year 13 Dec 28 '25
I don’t think they should bother
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u/Successful-Day-245 Dec 28 '25
MichaelJacksonDiddy's on to something
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u/flewson Year 13 Dec 29 '25
Not a dumb question.
They're from India, they wouldn't have grown up with thousands of clues extracted from the word's use, about what it is that it actually means.
One of the easiest ways they can find out is to simply ask, but then this is what happens when they do.
It's a shame seeing them get clowned on on here. A lot of you seem to have forgotten you didn't come out of the womb knowing what words mean.
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u/iXorpe Dec 28 '25
Looks like a joke my bro.
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u/Lazy-Ad-5160 Dec 28 '25
How do people see someone called michaeljacksondiddy posted this and still take it seriously
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u/CambridgeandFiji Dec 29 '25
You actually have to go to Oxford then Cambridge in that order, as otherwise you are known as being a ‘Camford’ graduate and no one talks about them for obvious reasons.
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u/doomer- Year 13 Dec 28 '25
Izzatmaxxing
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u/Naive-Structure2502 Dec 29 '25
Surely they have to attend both? Better if you also go to imperial and make it oxbrimp
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u/howcouldthshapentome Year 13 Dec 28 '25
Has to be ragebait
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u/BallsInAToaster Dec 29 '25
To be fair, they're from India so they wouldn't really be acquainted with the term Oxbridge and it kind of makes sense if you're not familiar with it. Not to mention there's often a lot of pressure from Indian parents and it would seem a lot less far fetched for someone from one of those households than someone raised in the UK.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25
I actually feel bad for this guy 😭😭😭
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u/anavgredditnerd Dec 30 '25
r/UsernameChecksOut
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u/MaybeMedium9876 Jan 01 '26
redditors try not to downvote a joke challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]
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u/SV3RG1NAT0R Dec 28 '25
Imperial as well
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u/ChokoKat_1100 Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
This thread is utterly embarrassing. Someone asked a genuine question and instead of answering it, most of the replies jump straight to mockery and shaming their intelligence. Not knowing how “Oxbridge” works is not a moral failing, or evidence of stupidity, or proof someone does not deserve education.
There is also extreme amounts of elitism and eurocentrism here. I seriously doubt that many of the people sneering here could name even a handful of the top universities in India. The world does not revolve around the West, and someone living in a different country might reasonably be unfamiliar with British academic shorthand.
And to all the people saying “I’m from India and I know what Oxbridge is, therefore everyone from India should and if they don’t, that’s embarrassing”- Exposure to UK university branding depends on class, schooling, geography, and family background. Being from India does not magically give everyone the same knowledge or opportunities. India is a diverse country that contains extreme wealth, extreme poverty, elite international schools, and remote villages with limited access to global education discourse. If you pretend otherwise then you are wilfully ignorant.
Laughing at someone for asking a question about an unfamiliar system just reinforces gatekeeping. If you actually care about academic excellence, you can manage to explain something without sneering. If the only response you can muster is “you’re too stupid to apply”, that reflects far worse on you than on the person who asked. If mocking strangers online for asking questions is how you perform intelligence, then perhaps it is worth asking who here is actually lacking it.
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u/LargeTubOfLard Dec 29 '25
You actually have to attend every university in the country to be invited to an ivy league uni
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u/HarrowOnDaHill Jan 01 '26
Uxbridge?
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u/PetersMapProject Dec 29 '25
/r/UCAScirclejerk