1995: Fake Oxford
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🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In 1995, a group of American teenagers crossed the Atlantic Ocean to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities. When they got to England, they found something totally unexpected.
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| 0:00.0 | I had gotten a scholarship from my dad's union and I had to go to the union for the ceremony. |
| 0:09.4 | Jessica Custer grew up in Hardwick, New Jersey. |
| 0:12.4 | She graduated from high school in 1995. |
| 0:15.8 | They give a little speech about your high school history and then they say what school you're |
| 0:20.7 | going to before you come up to collect your plaque and when they said, you know, in Jessica |
| 0:25.7 | Custer is going to be going to Oxford, like, you know, the whole room gas. |
| 0:29.6 | Holy God. |
| 0:30.6 | Oh my God. |
| 0:31.6 | She got into it. |
| 0:32.6 | It was that reaction everywhere. |
| 0:36.7 | There was a map on the well at our high school showing where each of the seniors from that |
| 0:41.2 | year had been accepted for our college the next year. |
| 0:45.0 | Jen Mills lived across the country in Redmond, Washington. |
| 0:49.1 | And it was mainly a map of the U.S. |
| 0:52.6 | So I asked them to add England to the map so that they could show that I was going to |
| 0:57.8 | Warnborough slash Oxford. |
| 1:01.0 | So about that Warnborough slash Oxford thing, the University of Oxford isn't just one institution. |
| 1:09.0 | Oxford is made up of almost 40 individual colleges and every student attends one of them. |
| 1:15.7 | They have separate histories and their own dining facilities and residence halls. |
| 1:20.7 | They have names like Exeter College, Lincoln College and Hartford College. |
| 1:26.0 | Jen and Jessica got accepted to Warnborough College. |
| 1:30.1 | So did Ian Schuller. |
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