How do people get offers of 2 E's?

one of my classics teachers got a double E offer

and he loves to talk about it...

Once again you demonstrate your utter lack of knowledge.

I heard about my interview at Magdalen for the 12th Dec. 3 weeks ago.

Erm, I think you've misunderstood this thread slightly. I doubt there's anybody who "intends to get into Oxbridge with E's" (or perhaps some people do intend to, but they won't normally get in).

As for the "sports genius" thing, nobody's given an offer purely because he's an amazing pole-vaulter / tennis player / ice skater, because those sort of things don't exactly qualify someone for academic work.

'Magdalen' is the Oxford spelling...its spelt "Magdalene" in Cambridge. I'm tempted to use your 'utter lack...' quote on you, but that would harsh

Apologies, I have a friend at 'Magdalen' Oxford so when typing quickly I often forget the 'e'

And for an interesting bit of information - The 'e' was added onto the end of 'Magdalen' Cambridge mid-way through the 19th Century so that it could be distinguished from its Oxford sister College by the postal service

Why 'Maudlyn'?
One of the questions we are asked most commonly is about the pronunciation of the name of the College! Though nowadays spelt in the biblical and continental way, 'Magdalene', the College name is customarily pronounced 'Maudlyn'.

The College at its refoundation by Lord Audley in 1542, was dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. The choice of the name of Mary Magdalene appears to have had a touch of vanity. In many early documents, the name is clearly spelt as pronounced: 'Maudleyn', containing within it the name of Audley himself! The final 'e' on Magdalene was an attempt, with the advent of the postal service in the mid nineteenth-century, to distinguish us from our sister College, Magdalen Oxford.

Once again you demonstrate your utter lack of knowledge.

I heard about my interview at Magdalen for the 12th Dec. 3 weeks ago.

And for an interesting bit of information - The 'e' was added onto the end of 'Magdalen' Cambridge mid-way through the 19th Century so that it could be distinguished from its Oxford sister College by the postal service

I don't think so - both are named after Mary Magdalene (almost always spelt with an 'e') - so it's really a question of how the Oxford college lost its 'e' rather than how Cambridge gained it!

Well sorry but you think wrong:

http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/about/history/why-maudlyn.html