[QUOTE="tcameron;67476480"]Maybe they like the course structure/uni life/location better than another place?
It's not all about prestige sometimes.[/QUOTE
I heavily doubt it, why would you want to work twice as hard as someone else when you know your end result will be the same, its not humanly logical. As for location, living in a small town isn't what universities students would call appealing, which leaves one to assume that the only reason people go to oxford is to benefit from the higher quality of education, prestige and for connection making.