Edinburgh university is full of rich posh people – amazing insights.
What’s next? St Andrews is filled with rich Windsor types?
The thing is with Edinburgh uni is that it’s always been like this.
They’ll never deal with the issues as their main money makers are the private school children and bank of mum and dad
Same thing been happening at St Andrews for decades. A few of my peers who stayed on at school and went to uni were saying the same stuff back then.
I went there in 1994 and it was the same then. I’d estimate we were just about 10% of the student body. It felt like I stepped into an alternate reality.
I didn’t hate it, I enjoyed myself. It’s still very strange mind.
It also has a very large proportion of overseas students.
I think Edinburgh is one of only a handful of unis in the UK with less than half the students being British.
That can’t be good for developing a cohesive institutional community. It was pretty balkanised when I was there, imagine it’s worse now- some nationalities, like the Chinese, just did not mix with the rest.
Go to Stirling if you wanna be around down-to-earth sporty lads instead
It’s very different at the postgraduate and above level – much more global and much less snobby (although there is still a scarcity of Scottish voices to be honest).
I studied in Glasgow. Some of my rich collegues looked down at me as while they were drinking in student unions or taking part in some discussion clubs, I was working to support myself.
Some of them even pretended they don’t know me when I said “hi” to them when they were walking past the lorry I was unloading at the kerbside.
One dickhead invited us to his concert only to laugh at my friends (I never went) as they bumped out of the doors, because they assumed he invited them, but they were asked to pay for their tickets, and it was like 30 quid for a bunch of guys playing ceildih in the pub. You can get for free in several pubs around the West End every day and we knew he and his pal weren’t even that good, so they decided not to pay and go elsewhere.
I ended up with much better grades than most of them, some of my other working class friends did even better than me. And yet guess who were the only ones who landed some cosy jobs in no time?
Britain is a very classist society. They say Scotland is not so bad for it, I am happy I don’t know how it looks in England then.
I went to Robert Gordon’s and it wasn’t a thing at all in the 80s. But I’d heard even then that St. Andrews was a bit like that.
Was like that in the 90s when I went. The posh students used to call us povs (impoverished). Some things never change.
Did my masters at Edinburgh Uni, there was only one Scottish lad in the class.
Not just at uni, find when the Edinburgh and Glasgow uni snobs stay behind because cheap housing etc, they enter the workplace with the exact same attitude
In other news Edinburgh uni wankers are wankers.
I went to Edinburgh University years ago and as someone from a working class family with a strong glaswegIan accent I did encounter snobbery from my fellow students as well as just a sheer tone deafness from many about how much harder it was for me to be there and to have to work and study at the same time. Everything from snickering at how I spoke, to one middle Class English girl who’d go out of her way to give me hand outs for her presentations in advance because she thought I might have trouble reading and understanding and who told me Peter Hoeg‘s Book of Danish Dreams would be too difficult for me to read. I had the last laugh though when I graduated top of my year with a first and she got a 2.2.
Still I remember being at a party with other Scottish students where they laughed at me and said I sounded like someone they would be stuck on a flight with back to Scotland from Spain who used plastic farmfoods bags for luggage, that was honestly gutting or the guys I dated who were ultimately repelled by my not knowing how to pronounce certain words I’d only ever read and never heard spoken or that fact that I’d never been abroad before or that I would try to help the wait staff collect plates at a restaurant. It seems so minor but it all adds up to put a wall between working class people and oppertunity.
Better together ❤️ A nation of equals. Hahaha
Imagine coming to Scotland and scowling at people for being Scottish.
Is it crazy to say that a public Scottish university should be heavily prioritising the Scottish people?
All of this roots back to class division. Abolish private schools. The universities need harsher regulations abolished on them too instead of practically leaving them to their own devices.
93% Club is all about state school educated people. Worth looking at.
So English kids go to school in Scotland and look down on the Scottish kids that also go there? Messed up
🐶🦄😢
Easy solution. Do a proper degree at Kings Buildings and you can swerve most of the issue.
As others have stated, this is a tale as old as the university and is not unique to Edinburgh nor even the UK. American universities are like this too.
common Edinburgh uni L
People can be judgmental cunts – who knew? Birds of a feather stick together – again, who knew?
This is no different to any Uni in the UK. Or a great many workplaces.
Just the same as this sub then
I went to Edinburgh in the 90s and it was similar back then. Strange culture shock coming from a small Scottish town to that.
My main issue was the teaching. I studied French and went in with an A at Higher, won the French prize at school so top of the class at school.
That got me entrance to the course but the level most other people were at was way above mine and, understandably, the course was taught at that higher level right from the start. It was a combination of teaching to the 2 year A level rather than 1 year Scottish higher and richer kids having much more exposure to the language (year abroad, private lessons, foreign holidays).
I was expecting a continuation from the Scottish Higher level and… that didn’t happen and as a teenager it was just kind of confusing. I think a lot of the Scottish kids switched courses after the first year.
I guess languages really show the gap but the 1 year Scottish Higher <> 2 year A level gap must been an issue across other courses as well.
Socially, there was definitely a gap with the private school kids but honestly that was mostly just me with a chip on my shoulder. They were all really nice. Just lucky gits to have been born in to so much more.
It is a really beautiful uni to go to. Surrounded by all these amazing buildings, all the history. I understand why it attracts people.
I went to Edinburgh uni and hated it, I felt very excluded especially as someone not coming from a private school or being well off. It was legitimately a week before I encountered another Scot and it was always few and far between. I ended up leaving because I had severe imposter syndrome and felt like I was constantly being looked down on.
Nothing new. My sister studied at Edinburgh Uni during the 2010s and got a 2:1 (working class background) and she reported feeling quite isolated and lonely at times. It’s a very snobbish place, most are foreign or southern students who look down on you if you dare speak with a Scottish dialect. Yet here you are in the Scottish fucking capital. Sad state of affairs, they’ll issue statements like this and *nothing* will change
I still mind one lassie in halls in Edinburgh when her dad came to visit he was shocked “rough”people shared the common areas. Bought her a flat to stay in and gave us a TV by way of an apology.
I was privately educated in Edinburgh , went to uni in England , a big divide between the elite private school Rahs as we called them and the rest of us. Most my mates went to English grammar schools some were private most weren’t but there is a big difference between them and the elite private schools
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Edinburgh university is full of rich posh people – amazing insights.
What’s next? St Andrews is filled with rich Windsor types?
The thing is with Edinburgh uni is that it’s always been like this.
They’ll never deal with the issues as their main money makers are the private school children and bank of mum and dad
Same thing been happening at St Andrews for decades. A few of my peers who stayed on at school and went to uni were saying the same stuff back then.
I went there in 1994 and it was the same then. I’d estimate we were just about 10% of the student body. It felt like I stepped into an alternate reality.
I didn’t hate it, I enjoyed myself. It’s still very strange mind.
It also has a very large proportion of overseas students.
I think Edinburgh is one of only a handful of unis in the UK with less than half the students being British.
That can’t be good for developing a cohesive institutional community. It was pretty balkanised when I was there, imagine it’s worse now- some nationalities, like the Chinese, just did not mix with the rest.
Go to Stirling if you wanna be around down-to-earth sporty lads instead
It’s very different at the postgraduate and above level – much more global and much less snobby (although there is still a scarcity of Scottish voices to be honest).
I studied in Glasgow. Some of my rich collegues looked down at me as while they were drinking in student unions or taking part in some discussion clubs, I was working to support myself.
Some of them even pretended they don’t know me when I said “hi” to them when they were walking past the lorry I was unloading at the kerbside.
One dickhead invited us to his concert only to laugh at my friends (I never went) as they bumped out of the doors, because they assumed he invited them, but they were asked to pay for their tickets, and it was like 30 quid for a bunch of guys playing ceildih in the pub. You can get for free in several pubs around the West End every day and we knew he and his pal weren’t even that good, so they decided not to pay and go elsewhere.
I ended up with much better grades than most of them, some of my other working class friends did even better than me. And yet guess who were the only ones who landed some cosy jobs in no time?
Britain is a very classist society. They say Scotland is not so bad for it, I am happy I don’t know how it looks in England then.
I went to Robert Gordon’s and it wasn’t a thing at all in the 80s. But I’d heard even then that St. Andrews was a bit like that.
Was like that in the 90s when I went. The posh students used to call us povs (impoverished). Some things never change.
Did my masters at Edinburgh Uni, there was only one Scottish lad in the class.
Not just at uni, find when the Edinburgh and Glasgow uni snobs stay behind because cheap housing etc, they enter the workplace with the exact same attitude
In other news Edinburgh uni wankers are wankers.
I went to Edinburgh University years ago and as someone from a working class family with a strong glaswegIan accent I did encounter snobbery from my fellow students as well as just a sheer tone deafness from many about how much harder it was for me to be there and to have to work and study at the same time. Everything from snickering at how I spoke, to one middle Class English girl who’d go out of her way to give me hand outs for her presentations in advance because she thought I might have trouble reading and understanding and who told me Peter Hoeg‘s Book of Danish Dreams would be too difficult for me to read. I had the last laugh though when I graduated top of my year with a first and she got a 2.2.
Still I remember being at a party with other Scottish students where they laughed at me and said I sounded like someone they would be stuck on a flight with back to Scotland from Spain who used plastic farmfoods bags for luggage, that was honestly gutting or the guys I dated who were ultimately repelled by my not knowing how to pronounce certain words I’d only ever read and never heard spoken or that fact that I’d never been abroad before or that I would try to help the wait staff collect plates at a restaurant. It seems so minor but it all adds up to put a wall between working class people and oppertunity.
Better together ❤️ A nation of equals. Hahaha
Imagine coming to Scotland and scowling at people for being Scottish.
Is it crazy to say that a public Scottish university should be heavily prioritising the Scottish people?
All of this roots back to class division. Abolish private schools. The universities need harsher regulations abolished on them too instead of practically leaving them to their own devices.
93% Club is all about state school educated people. Worth looking at.
So English kids go to school in Scotland and look down on the Scottish kids that also go there? Messed up
🐶🦄😢
Easy solution. Do a proper degree at Kings Buildings and you can swerve most of the issue.
As others have stated, this is a tale as old as the university and is not unique to Edinburgh nor even the UK. American universities are like this too.
common Edinburgh uni L
People can be judgmental cunts – who knew? Birds of a feather stick together – again, who knew?
This is no different to any Uni in the UK. Or a great many workplaces.
Just the same as this sub then
I went to Edinburgh in the 90s and it was similar back then. Strange culture shock coming from a small Scottish town to that.
My main issue was the teaching. I studied French and went in with an A at Higher, won the French prize at school so top of the class at school.
That got me entrance to the course but the level most other people were at was way above mine and, understandably, the course was taught at that higher level right from the start. It was a combination of teaching to the 2 year A level rather than 1 year Scottish higher and richer kids having much more exposure to the language (year abroad, private lessons, foreign holidays).
I was expecting a continuation from the Scottish Higher level and… that didn’t happen and as a teenager it was just kind of confusing. I think a lot of the Scottish kids switched courses after the first year.
I guess languages really show the gap but the 1 year Scottish Higher <> 2 year A level gap must been an issue across other courses as well.
Socially, there was definitely a gap with the private school kids but honestly that was mostly just me with a chip on my shoulder. They were all really nice. Just lucky gits to have been born in to so much more.
It is a really beautiful uni to go to. Surrounded by all these amazing buildings, all the history. I understand why it attracts people.
I went to Edinburgh uni and hated it, I felt very excluded especially as someone not coming from a private school or being well off. It was legitimately a week before I encountered another Scot and it was always few and far between. I ended up leaving because I had severe imposter syndrome and felt like I was constantly being looked down on.
Nothing new. My sister studied at Edinburgh Uni during the 2010s and got a 2:1 (working class background) and she reported feeling quite isolated and lonely at times. It’s a very snobbish place, most are foreign or southern students who look down on you if you dare speak with a Scottish dialect. Yet here you are in the Scottish fucking capital. Sad state of affairs, they’ll issue statements like this and *nothing* will change
I still mind one lassie in halls in Edinburgh when her dad came to visit he was shocked “rough”people shared the common areas. Bought her a flat to stay in and gave us a TV by way of an apology.
I was privately educated in Edinburgh , went to uni in England , a big divide between the elite private school Rahs as we called them and the rest of us. Most my mates went to English grammar schools some were private most weren’t but there is a big difference between them and the elite private schools
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