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how many people got into oxbridge from your state/public school?

Reply 20

Richy Rich$$

2

State school- 1/2 Cambridge and 2/8 Oxford

Reply 21

bikerx23

1

I went to a comp and was completely taught in second hand, 40 year old porta-cabins. 6 people got into oxbridge (3 to each), and the two who didn't get in realistically didn't have a chance (they were predicted b's & c's)
Just go for it if you get mostly A's/couple of B's at AS...I got AABB at AS and was offered AAB for oxford, and it is always worth the go. The accept everyone will be of a certain academic standard, therefore interview with your enthusiasm for the subject is essential.

Reply 22

brunswick

That I know of, 3 for Cam and 3 for Oxford, but could be a few more I don't know about. Roughly 20ish applied out of a year group of 600 (state 6th form).

Reply 23

kellywood_5

17

I gp to an average state comprehensive and last year (ie those students currently awaiting their A2 results) 1 applied to New Hall, Cambridge to read Natrural Sciences and got an EE offer :eek:

She's the first person from my school to go to Oxbridge. The other applied to read English at Oxford and was rejected, so 1/1 for Cambridge and 0/1 for Oxford, 1/2 altogether. There were about 90 people in the year. A couple of years before that, another student was rejected from Oxford for English. I think the most who have ever applied from the same year is 2, although there are 4, including me, considering applying this year.

Reply 24

alexander87

my state skool(100 ppl in the year), average 5 every year go to oxbridge, (well for three year running now)

this year 4/8 camb 1/1 to oxford.

Reply 25

bulmore

state school (grammar) - 140 people. 20-25 people average each year into either Oxford or Cambridge (most to the latter).

Reply 26

Sinuhe

8

A state school, but abroad (and there are essentially no private schools here except for a few owned by the Catholic Church and a Walfdorf school); of the 20 people in the IB programme 2 applied to Oxford and 2 to Cambridge; we all got offers.

Reply 27

Yttrium

1

Public School: 6/7 got in to Oxford and 0/9 to Cambridge.

Made me think....

Reply 28

d750

8

Does it really make any difference how many of your predecessors have gone to Oxbridge? It shouldn't be a disadvantage if few have, and it isn't necessarily an advantage if lots have. Now that there's so much information available about admissions a school's inexperience in sending people on to Oxbridge shouldn't count for much.

Reply 29

bikerx23

1

d750

Does it really make any difference how many of your predecessors have gone to Oxbridge? It shouldn't be a disadvantage if few have, and it isn't necessarily an advantage if lots have. Now that there's so much information available about admissions a school's inexperience in sending people on to Oxbridge shouldn't count for much.

It will relate to the experience and knowledge your teachers have on the system though, and that will be a useful insight for you - I found talking to teachers who had assisted past applicants very useful and insightful.

Reply 30

d750

8

bikerx23

It will relate to the experience and knowledge your teachers have on the system though, and that will be a useful insight for you - I found talking to teachers who had assisted past applicants very useful and insightful.

Will that make a difference though? All the information is available for any applicant to find for themselves. And teachers' advice tends to be very selective. If they've got a student into a particular college, they'll tend to really push that college. It's not necessarily helpful.

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Reply 33

Alaric

1

State Grammar. I think about 1/8 Oxford, 9/16 Cambridge.

The difference can be explained though, it is a single sex school and the further maths class applied to Cam mainly for sciences and was very very strong. The Oxford students applied for Arts generally and the school isn't quite as strong in those areas really.

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Reply 34

Waldo

Beware of using student room apocrypha as a basis for assessing your chances. Statistics are easily available - approximately 1/4 of Oxbridge applicants are accepted. This is a high success rate than many other unis, though i believe there is also a greater degree of self-selection: rubbishy people dont tend to apply.

Reply 35

xx_ambellina_xx

14

Waldo

Beware of using student room apocrypha as a basis for assessing your chances. Statistics are easily available - approximately 1/4 of Oxbridge applicants are accepted. This is a high success rate than many other unis, though i believe there is also a greater degree of self-selection: rubbishy people dont tend to apply.

True, statistically, the chances of getting in are much higher, but the calibre of the competition is also much higher. For example, other excellent universities such as Edinburgh have a much higher ratio of applicants to places, but since their usual offer is in the realms of BBB (for most things at least), people predicted BBB apply, more so than they would to Oxbridge.

Reply 36

visesh

17

we average about 17 people a year.

Reply 37

d750

8

Waldo

This is a high success rate than many other unis, though i believe there is also a greater degree of self-selection: rubbishy people dont tend to apply.

Rubbishy? Presumably you think that's synonymous with people who don't go to Oxbridge?

Reply 38

Rembrandt

Comprehensive: 4/4 got into Oxford and 1/2 into Cambridge.

The silly thing was that four out of five of us missed our offers. One was accepted anyway, two of us successfully reapplied and one went to Sheffield instead. Hope I haven't scared anyone ahead of exam results... :eek:

Reply 39

Elles

17

40 people from my year got offers (fairly heavy Oxford bias). i imagine ~80 applied. this was a state 6th form & a fairly typical year.

that said, from my independent school 3 of us in the past 10 years have gone onto Oxbridge.

yay for anecdotal statistics that show very little..! :rolleyes:

how many people got into oxbridge from your state/public school?

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