Accepted Oxbridge but rejected elsewhere?

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Reply 60

Tek

GemGems

Im at oxford studying history and like you are loving it, but i got rejected outright from both bristol and durham

I expect you really got to shine in the interview...just shows how vital it is to the admissions procedure.

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Reply 61

devilschild

I was talking to some physics professor from bristol the other day (i dont know what his name was but he was at a meeting at the place i work), and was interested that he said lots of departments will automatically reject almost all applicants before 15th october because they dont want to be used for "oxbridge interview practice." (although apparently physics don't do that because they don't get enough good applicants.)This may explain why so many good candidates are rejected from there, if you are really serious about wanting to go there it must be best to apply after the oxbridge deadline.

Reply 62

GemGems

Tek

I expect you really got to shine in the interview...just shows how vital it is to the admissions procedure.

but i had good grades, good personal statement, tons of extra curricular stuff, i mean what more did they want?! and i dont think i particularly shone in my oxford interview, i was shaking for most of it!

Reply 63

J.S.

hildabeast

I do think they're prejudiced against Oxbridge applicants. I know loads of people who got into Oxford but were rejected from Bristol.

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Some of it may well be due to an admissions bias. However, not a great deal, perhaps none of it. If Univs like Bristol, LSE, Warwick, Notts, Imperial, Edinburgh (for e.g.) rejected all those they thought had applied to Oxbridge, they'd barely have anybody left! Would be an absurd policy.

Firstly, I think it's important to consider that the a/v A level grade difference between Oxford and LSE/Imperial etc is actually very small. LSE's a/v is 28.something, Oxford's average is 29.something. It's inevitable that people accepted at Oxbridge are sometimes going to be rejected from the universities I've mentioned, as the the grade difference between them has gotten ever so slight.

If there was such a huge bias against Oxbridge people on the grounds that they were 'going to Oxbridge and going to certainly reject us' on the part of universities, the bias would not be confined to universities that are at the top, other universities would go along with it to. After all, which university would want to offer a place to someone that was certain to get into Oxbridge? Also, it could even go further, with say, City university rejecting someone that was more likely to go to LSE and etc. Then what we'd have is a scenerio where higher grade students would consistently be getting rejected from the 'lower end' universities.

Reply 64

IECS

I got an offer from oxford, but got rejected from Durham. UCL and Warrick still unknown

Accepted Oxbridge but rejected elsewhere?

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