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Faculty rosters at Oxford face high attrition, as top-notch professors such as Niall Ferguson leave for more lucrative posts in the United States. You will likely spend most of your time in touch with Harvard librarians to access materials not available at Oxford, and you will probably be asking...
Harry Potter may have been filmed at Oxford, but students at Hogwarts have it much better than the typical student here. With steeply climbing costs and the recent poor performance of the Rhodes endowment—which translates into a lower stipend—just living in one of the...
So, given all of these frustrations, why did we decide to study at Oxford? Until we arrived, these issues weren’t even on our radar screen. Before the Rhodes interview, the focus was on winning the scholarship, not on evaluating if Oxford was the right place for us...
Perhaps the larger question is, do you even want to be in an academic setting immediately after turning in that 150-page senior thesis? Our message to those newly minted or aspiring applicants is simple: Beware of the lure of the Rhodes title. Reconsider that year working for an non...
Melissa L. Dell ’05 and Swati Mylavarapu ’05 are both Rhodes scholars at Oxford University.