Hey guys, i'm looking for advice and consolation here.
Last year I was heavily discouraged from applying to Oxbridge because I hadn't been one of the pupils having expressed a keen interest to apply there since an early age. GCSEs-wise I got all A's, a B and 3 A*, which okay is a little on the low side from what I hear but i've always excelled at languages because they have just come naturally to me.
I got A*A*B at A level in French, Spanish and english Lit but i'm wondering whether I should have applied for Oxbridge at the time. I guess I felt like I didn't want to be surrounded by people who were better than me in my subjects, and I was worried that i'd feel uncomfortable and out of my depth, being surrounded by so many intelligent people. Yet the same time, the opportunity to go to the one of the top institutions was swaying me.
When I looked at the course modules in detail, I was slightly put off by the amount of literature involved in the degree at both Oxford and Cambridge but I understand that at Cambridge you can specialise more in the linguists side of things.
In the end I settled for the University of Southampton, which is a good university but did I make a mistake? Has anyone else been in a similar position to me? Oxbridge would have been far better for job prospects and I feel like I made a mistake based on the fact that I could have got in and worked to develop my full potential (sorry if this sounds arrogant, it's really not meant to be).