I'm at St John's. Don't hate me for it, though.
Which college were you at?
I don't think their students are superior to ours, no. I'm not going to deny that there may be favouritism, but I do know that Oxford applicants have an 85% success rate, and that those who apply will be the students who reckon they have a chance of getting in (so 85% of
good students get in). Perhaps after this round of admissions I will have a more informed opinion on this matter, but I don't think the system is
that unfair. It's certainly competitive, though, and I wish it wasn't!
What would you say is required of a Cambridge applicant to have a good chance of getting in? My Oxford friend spoke to one of his tutors on my behalf (I didn't ask him to!) and was told that a 1st in the first or the second year is enough to be fairly sure of getting a place, providing you haven't failed any exams or got less than a 2:1 along the way. Do you think this was an exaggeration? He's actually worried about his own application to the Oxford clinical school, because he doesn't have any Merits - they obviously worry about applications to clinical school over there too!
EDIT: P.S. If you want to dispense any advice on which clinical schools to consider applying to, I'm all ears!
Was GKT your first choice or were you keen on somewhere else?