What are my chances of getting into Oxford?

Hi there! This is directed mainly at current Oxford students reading English Lit, but if anyone else has any advice fire away!
I am currently in year 12 at a pretty good state school, and I really want to go to Oxford to study English Lit. However I'm not sure how good my chances of getting in are.... I could use some advice, so perhaps if you could glance over the info below and get back to me? Thanks!
- I was home educated from the age of 8 til I joined the Sixth Form last September and consequently I'm very self-motivated and am quite happy with independent study having done it most of my life.
- I'm taking AS levels English Lit, Music, Psychology, Geography and General studies, and planning to drop geography next year to end up with full A levels in the first three, and also take history at AS next year too.
- I do quite a bit of reading around my subject - e.g. other books by the authors I'm studying in class, etc.
- At the beginning of my A level study I was writing A grade essays for English Lit while everyone else was writing E or U grade essays.
- I got A for GCSE English Lit and A* with a top five mark for GCSE English Lang.
- I play the viola at grade 6 standard (just got Honours, woo-hoo!) and flute at grade 7, plus a bit of piano.
- I play and sing in numerous music groups both in and out of school.
- I am about to start working towards my Duke of Edinburgh Award.
- I have lots of interests besides English Lit - obviously classical music, but also archaeology, horses, etc.

So, realistically, what are my chances? I'd really appreciate any advice.

I've just read the thread and your replies, and it appears very clear for me to see, you don't have an immense passion for english and care more about the UNI rather than the course.

I've just read the thread and your replies, and it appears very clear for me to see, you don't have an immense passion for english and care more about the UNI rather than the course.

To the person who said you need all A*:

You Pr*ick. You think you need all A*s to get in. Your going to be in for a shock when you get there.

Who on earth has all A*'s?

there are not even a 100 people per year who get straight A*'s at GCSE.
Don't talk nonsense.

there were seven in my year, thats one school, some schools have an average of 6A*s and 4A's for their pupils, in places like that loads will get all A*s, theres way more than 100..

You don't know me and you cannot possibly judge how much I love English just from what I've written here.

The idea that you without them you haven't got a hope is bullshit though.

Not wishing to burst your bubble, but I notice you don't have a modern language at GCSE level, which I'm pretty sure precludes you from applying to Cambridge for an Arts course (although I don't know about Oxford).

Yes, and scientists are equally valued; but they just don't reach the same, deep levels historians reach. Scientists appreciate the surface value of how things work: historians appreciate how society works, how human beings work; historians think on deeper and more valuable levels than scientists. Scientists are but the products of society; historians seek to understand this society.

Ha! They do not think deeply! They examine and record! Measure and pour! Prod and poke! They are but pawns in the universe; they refuse to be drawn into the deeper meanings of self; they choose to escape: the easiest way out. They refuse to face the true meaning of self; the true meaning of society; they are but cowards spawned by more cowards! Historians - real, brave people - analyse and seek to understand the human race at its deepest, most intimate level; it is for this courage that they are prized above the scientist. It is for this courage, Ladies and Gentlemen, that historians are the most valued contributors to the understanding of society.

Huh? Did she say what she took other than english and english lit?

That's a load of B.S. Since when have historians reached 'deep levels' and since when have they thought 'on deeper and more valuable levels than scientists'? All historians do is analyse the past, looking at how selfish and stupid human have been. That hardly counts as 'thinking on more valuable levels than scientists', quite the opposite, in fact, as scientists seek to improve life

Who on earth has all A*'s?

there are not even a 100 people per year who get straight A*'s at GCSE.
Don't talk nonsense.

Your chances are very slim as your grades aren't good enough. sorry to put it so bluntly but i got all a*'s thats why they excepted me. just a's will not be good enough sorry!!!

You idiot...it is only in the light of the past that we can understand the present - didn't you ever read EH Carr?

I emboldened the phrase which particularly shows you to be a complete idiot.