fluteflute's bumper thread of Oxford admissions statistics

I've put together a spreadsheet with admission stats broken down by college based on a Freedom of Information request. Originally posted about it in the 2012 applicants thread but I wanted a wider range of people to be able to see it.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Asg7Ze9sc7PfdERINU5BSjJXdVN1dEs5eVl2cFVyaWc&hl=en_GB#gid=0

I would strongly advise people against making a college choice because they're trying to play the numbers. I imagine the differences in this spreadsheet are mostly to do with the different subjects offered by colleges, and how many good students apply to which colleges.

However there are some vaguely interesting facts in all those columns. For example Column D shows the percentage of applications to that college that were originally open applications. This is one indicator of popularity. Another similarly interesting column is Column O, which is the percentage of applicants to a college and got an Oxford offer, who got a place at that college. For Worcester it's only 50%, Magdalen is 55%, Brasenose 60% and Balliol 64%. Contrastingly for Harris Manchester and PPHs you see 100% meaning that no-one who applied there got an offer from another college.

As for the overall success rate of applicants in Column I (if you don't care too much which college you'll get into) it seems your best chances are gained by applying to a PPH (29% of applicants get in), New College (27%) or Magdalen (26%). On the other hand, only 14% got in! Of course the figures here and in Column J (and perhaps the whole spreadsheet) are skewed by the relative quality of the people that decide to apply to a college, so aren't particularly conclusive!

Anyway, just some stats for you to play with. Once more: don't make decisions based on this. Apply where you want for any rational reason (or make an open application) because Oxford tries incredibly hard to make the admissions procedure fair, wherever you apply.

hi I cant get the link to open; it says google requires that you give me permission. am i doing something wrong. thx

Yeah same, I can't see it either...
What is the percentage for brasenose?

Yeah, I was able to see it and now it won't let me, even though I have a Google account.

i can't see it either bummer

so i've applied to one of the most oversubscribed colleges of the entire university. aw crap....
(brasenose btw)

as far as i can tell (and i'm not very good at reading spreadsheets...) wadham doesn't look tooo bad. i'd still hve applied for it anyway.

so i've applied to one of the most oversubscribed colleges of the entire university. aw crap....
(brasenose btw)

Hey which subject have you applied for?
Yeah it's over 400% oversubscribed!!

so i've applied to one of the most oversubscribed colleges of the entire university. aw crap....
(brasenose btw)

So whats the deal on PPH acceptance rates?

Do these statistics count the people that applied to exeter, got in but ended up in a different college. Pooling is up to 20% in some subjects.