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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by Jabbles on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:59PM (#15289191)
A huge portion of the UK's middle class cannot have gone to Oxbridge, simply because they're too small. They take 3000 people each or together 0.01% of the UK's population each year.
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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by barry-cotter on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:40PM (#15289416)
But what portion of the 17-19 year olds of the UK do they admit every year? I think it's around 3%. That means Oxbridge is guaranteed to have educated a greater portion of the UK's middle class than went to the US's HYP, also ran Ivy League schools, MIT, Stanford and CalTech. One thirtieth of the US population does not attend a super elite school.
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Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ... by blibble on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @07:20PM (#15289581)
~6000 undergrad oxbridge places/year, divided by ~1 million 18 year olds[1] == around 0.6%, so 1 in 166

[1]: http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/united-...

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