>>12406403Actual Cambridge Anon here.
I'll talk about maths since that's what I did.
We had American exchange students from all of their top tiers, and consistently, they would struggle. Why? Their courses were spoonfed, whereas we were comparatively thrown into an ocean storm and expected to cope.
This is both a positive, and a negative. If you are a good self learner, you will do well. And if not, you will become more self sufficient. This lends well to intellectual growth; spoon feeding forces adherence to convention, which leads to stagnation.
The negatives are that,
A) if you can't self learn, you will drown and fail.
B) sometimes the professors/tutors take it too far, and are negligent. Whereupon you will glance over topics you were expected to study.
Cambridge has talent, arguably best in the world. Most of the talent feeds into England's finance industry, which means you can get ludicrous salaries straight out of uni (provided you are worth your salt).
Professors, tutors, are all top of their fields. If you're interested in your subject, you're in the right place.
Professors are also lackadaisical and down right unfair sometimes, like changing the questions in the middle of the exam because they made a mistake.
If you're a talented, independent mathematician- Cambridge is the best in the world.
