Philosophy - Oxford or Cambridge or other? best university

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me decide what I want to apply for.
Firstly grades:
GCES - 6A*s, 3As
AS -
Critical thinking - A
geography - A
A2 (achieved)
A* - biology (551/600)
A* - history (397/400)
A* - RS: Philosophy and ethics (367/400)
EPQ - extended project A
AQA English Bacc - Distinction

1) Do you think my grades are high enough to have a chance for getting into oxbridge for philosophy considering the low number of GCSEs I took?

2) is the cambridge philosophy very mathematically based and is it harder to get in than oxford philosophy and theology? so will not taking maths beyond GCSE give me an disadvantage at application stage?

3) Do cambridge care more about A-level grades, and therefore do I stand a better chance of getting in? apparently your grades just get you the interview at oxford and then you are judged from there, whereas at cambridge you can get an offer pretty much on good results alone as long as you don't completely bomb the interview.

4) will not having a GCSE in a modern lanugage be a serious disadvantage?

1) Do you think my grades are high enough to have a chance for getting into oxbridge for philosophy considering the low number of GCSEs I took?

2) is the cambridge philosophy very mathematically based and is it harder to get in than oxford philosophy and theology? so will not taking maths beyond GCSE give me an disadvantage at application stage?

3) Do cambridge care more about A-level grades, and therefore do I stand a better chance of getting in? apparently your grades just get you the interview at oxford and then you are judged from there, whereas at cambridge you can get an offer pretty much on good results alone as long as you don't completely bomb the interview.

4) will not having a GCSE in a modern lanugage be a serious disadvantage?

4) will not having a GCSE in a modern lanugage be a serious disadvantage?

The important thing you to consider is which course you want to study! Do you want to study theology as well as philosophy?

Something you should be aware of is that the Oxford P&T course will require that you study for at least a year one of Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Pali (but what this?), or Sanskrit.***

I don't think not having studied a modern language even to GCSE will be a disadvantage in admissions, but I wonder what was implied by your choosing against doing so (you presumably had the option...) and whether the factors informing that choice might make the P&T course seem less attractive. Oxford P&T has a compulsory language-study component, is the short of it.

Of course, if the reason for which you don't have a modern language is that you passed them up for latin and/or greek then the above was hardly worth my writing out.

*** http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-admissions/our-courses/ba-philosophy-and-theology.html


Also, given your set of interests you might be well served as well in looking at www.heythrop.ac.uk A specialist college of the University of London, it is never discussed on here but is rather good for what you want.

It does not have a compulsory language element - it is an option but I do not have to take it

Hi everyone sorry I haven't been active. Thank you so much for the advice it's been a lot of help. I was wondering if anyone of you went to cambridge, or knows anyone at cambridge, and could help me with colleges? Would be a massive help if anyone could offer some help asap as I really need to decide. I am looking to do philosophy at maybe trinity hall, downing, sidney etc.