Oxford or Cambridge - What Type of People are Inclined to Apply to Which?

E. H. Carr says no. While Oxford is generally regarded as better for Arts subjects, Cambridge seems to have a stronger tradition in History and Philosophy, at least from where I see it.

Oxford had a grand total of 27 black and 14 mixed race students in 2009. the person you described is white, so Oxford.

So I understand this must be a pretty fun thing to say, given how often people like to do it on TSR, in mainstream media and in political speeches, but it's utter *******s.

(a) Oxford accepted 27 black or mixed black students to undergraduate courses in 2009. This is not the same as there being 27 black people in Oxford.
(b) We would only expect Oxford to accept about 36 black students per year, based on how many get AAA or better, and that's before taking into account their disproportionately high number of applicants for the most oversubscribed subjects.
(c) Other groups of students are underrepresented at Oxford, e.g. grammar school students, but you don't hear much about that.
(d) Perhaps most relevantly for this godforsaken topic and your imbecilic response, Cambridge has, for the last two years at least, accepted fewer black students to undergraduate courses than Oxford. Quite why you (and the lamentable David Lammy, and David Cameron, and god knows who else) have therefore chosen to single out Oxford as a bad place for black students to apply is completely beyond me.

LOL

easily enough black / mixed race people get the grades. They cherry pick the whites

Oh stop talking rubbish, will you? The percentage of black students who get the required grades is far lower than that of white students, and A-level statistics prove this. In 2009, 452 black students across the UK achieved AAA (excluding General Studies) compared to 29,000 white students. Even if every single one of those 452 black students had applied to Oxford and received an offer, they would only have accounted for about 14% of that year's undergraduate intake.

Yup, but there was only 27 that got in
you mad bro? dw fel, obama is reppin the black community well.

Sometimes i feel oxbridge are elitist camps for breeding posh white people.

OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not a troll and actually believe what you say...
Let's assume for the sake of argument that all of those 452 black students applied to Oxford or Cambridge and that exactly half applied to each. That would make 226 hypothetical black Oxford applicants. Since the average success rate for applicants that year was around 25%, you'd therefore expect 57 of them to have received offers - if it wasn't for the fact that black Oxford applicants are disproportionately more likely to apply for the most competitive subjects, which have a much lower success rate: 7.8% for E&M and 12.3% for Medicine; the article doesn't mention what the third most popular subject is, but it's likely to be PPE (16.5%). So taking all that into account, you couldn't reasonably expect much more than 27 black applicants to have got offers that year even in a scenario which probably hinges on more people applying than really did apply.
Obviously it's still a very low number, but the point is that it wouldn't be fair to blame Oxford for it and accuse them of deliberately discriminating against black applicants. If anything, you'd need to question why so few black students achieve three or more As and then try to tackle the causes, whatever they are.

Let's say we have a typical student from an expensive private boarding school

MICHAEL JACKSON CAN SIT ON TOP OF THE WORLD, AS LONG AS HE DONT SIT IN THE BEVERLY PALM HOTEL, COZ THERE AINT NO ****** ALLOWED IN THERE.

back in the days when michael jackson... was black!
hotel =oxford
hehe

OK, I'll take that as an admission that you are indeed a troll.

Oxfords compsition of students is not representative of 'multicultural' britain.

Oxfords compsition of students is not representative of 'multicultural' britain.

Keep that in mind.

2011

And it is now 2015......So what?.......These are stereotypes that go back hundreds of years I am discussing. Does it matter whether they are talked about in 2011 or 2015?

The people "discussing" the stereotypes were either banned or left years ago. Why dredge up a zombie thread.