Student review [#28622]
for English and French
at University of Oxford
Oxford, The United Kingdom
I don’t regret going to Oxford but at the same time I feel I would have been happier at LBS. I also considered Cambridge but I was rejected on spot … tough luck
I won’t like, I had a fairly ropey first couple of terms but, once I got into the swing of things, I enjoyed the rest of my time and came away with a decent degree.
Whether I then made the best of the opportunities that degree might have offered is a different question but, equally, I was never going to be a titan of business.
But I can honestly say that I’ve never looked back and thought that I’d made the wrong decision in (eventually) going to Cambridge.
The one and only time I ever got admitted to Cambridge I had been pretty sure that they were going to accept me. I was applying for the LLM, and the criteria were very clear: if you averaged above a certain mark in your undergraduate law degree, they would take you. And my marks were comfortably above the required threshold, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when the acceptance letter came in.
Sadly, in the end I declined the spot, putting me in a relatively small group of people who received an offer to go to Cambridge but didn’t take it up. Whilst I don’t regret my decision, I am still struck by what a lovely place Cambridge is every time I visit.