I went to a state school

Yes permitting you fit all the other criteria.

you are scoring As at AS, have a sound personal statement, good references, A/A* predicted grades and a passion and enthusiasm for your subject (which is backed up by your own research and out-of-class reading) then you stand a chance.
You will have to do well at interview and in the aptitude relevant to your subject - and public schools do probably give more support to help do well in these - but otherwise your state education will not hinder you.

This is good advice.

We'd very much like to see more excellent state school students applying. The only way to find out if you would get in, is to actually apply. We can't consider you if we don't have an application from you.

If you think the course is for you, and you're in line to get the grades/subjects we look for, then great, go ahead and apply. Help us change the statistics - don't be put off by them.

..I could quote cases where candidates with excellent academic records/predictions in excess of the require grades etc haven't even been interviewed..

In a way it isnt the applying that bothers me - its more that if I get in I wont want to go because of the attitude of all the other students once i get there. I wont understand what half of them are going on about. My cousin got interviewed at Durham and someone asked him 'where did you prep?'. He hadn't got a clue wht they meant and they got really rude when he asked them to explain and then just looked at him like he was foreign or something. If its going be that sort of put down all the time, I'd rather go to a normal uni.

The best way to encourage state school pupils to apply is to take more of the applicants you have already. If the decisions on existing candidates cause widespread surprise at their school (and I could quote cases where candidates with excellent academic records/predictions in excess of the require grades etc haven't even been interviewed) then it discourages other applicants from those schools.

In a way it isnt the applying that bothers me - its more that if I get in I wont want to go because of the attitude of all the other students once i get there. I wont understand what half of them are going on about. My cousin got interviewed at Durham and someone asked him 'where did you prep?'. He hadn't got a clue wht they meant and they got really rude when he asked them to explain and then just looked at him like he was foreign or something. If its going be that sort of put down all the time, I'd rather go to a normal uni.

There is more to Oxbridge applications than grades alone. Plus schools tend to have an overinflated opinion of their best applicants anyway, so schools being surprised isn't actually indicative of anything

Indeed there is but what it is is rather harder to identify, leading inevitably to suspicion of bias. Schools do not invariably have inflated views of their candidates. A candidate with an admission test result equal to some of those being made offers, if TSR is to be believed) and with a full set of A* GSCEs is entitled to wonder why they weren't interviewed at Oxford. They were interviewed and had offers from all other places (suggesting nothing much wrong with their personal statement and reference). But they were at a state school with little tradition of sending people to Oxford and not from an affluent background.

In most cases, Oxford actually seem to like students without such a tradition in an attempt to get away from the unwarranted stigma people seem to still have of the 'good ole days' and further, it shows that the student probably has a raw ability for the subject rather than being coached like all the students from the same schools the years before.
You are measured in relation to your peers and if you achieve to a standard higher than them then, the likelihood is, Oxford will want you.
Maybe the aptitude test they probably sat for Oxford admissions went very badly.

As I said their aptitude test result was similar to those reported on TSR by people who had interviews and in some cases offers. The mother told me their test results and I compared it using the TSR stalking page. Oxford claim to like such students but in this case they clearly didn't. No-one can understand why they didn't at least interview.

Indeed there is but what it is is rather harder to identify, leading inevitably to suspicion of bias. Schools do not invariably have inflated views of their candidates. A candidate with an admission test result equal to some of those being made offers, if TSR is to be believed) and with a full set of A* GSCEs is entitled to wonder why they weren't interviewed at Oxford. They were interviewed and had offers from all other places (suggesting nothing much wrong with their personal statement and reference). But they were at a state school with little tradition of sending people to Oxford and not from an affluent background.

As I said their aptitude test result was similar to those reported on TSR by people who had interviews and in some cases offers. The mother told me their test results and I compared it using the TSR stalking page. Oxford claim to like such students but in this case they clearly didn't. No-one can understand why they didn't at least interview.