Percentage of applicants awarded places at Oxford University?

yes, it is a common misconception amongst the western society that oxford is the cream of the uk's higher education. This tends to have come out of it's past prestiguousness and being popularised in various films and books. In the east however, society has not been used to this higher education malarky, and so tend to award social credibility to the best academic performers. Hence Cambridge is considered Europe's best university by eastern society.

When it comes to Americans, they have their fair share of amazing educational establishments, and so their a main desire to leave their own country tends to be down to prestige and such. Oxford, being the older of the two, is considered to be more presitigous. However as is the case with so many things, it's quality not quantity, and so age is now become less important than what the universities have got to offer. Cambridge is fast establishing itself as THE university of academic excellence in Europe. It is the New Oxford....it has everything Oxford had 150 years ago......so move over Oxford, you've had your day.

Although in fairness....if you go to either cambridge or oxford, you're gonig to a damn good university.

A common misconception? lol I don't wanna take the place of your colleague, but Oxford IS the cream...SO is Cambridge!! There is too little to decide between them, unless you go down to very specific stuff, and then there's not that much...Why do you obsess over this so much?!

T

(hoping he's not come accross as confrontational etc. etc.)

when i used the word "cream" I was referring to it's use to imply "the best of". There can only be one "best of". But if you read a post i made slightly later on, I admitted my bias view and that in reality there is nothing between the two. I am just bitter than American's rate oxford above cambridge for (in my opinion) no good reason these days.

The Chch freshers guide is here, http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri1588/chchweb/freshers/index.html , my room mate made it. Are you referring to the two lines on the last page of the glossary which explains what a tab is?

Oi, it's Economics and Management! Get the name right! And it's nearly 6 applicants per place actually...

when i used the word "cream" I was referring to it's use to imply "the best of". There can only be one "best of". But if you read a post i made slightly later on, I admitted my bias view and that in reality there is nothing between the two. I am just bitter than American's rate oxford above cambridge for (in my opinion) no good reason these days.

Last year it was higher than that, they pooled open applications to colleges with 7, and they get sent to ones with the lowest

Exactly, but applicants per place for the course would include open applicants, not just those that apply to a particular college. So if, including open applications, the lowest college ends up with 7 per place, then the average for that subject must be over 7. I've seen colleges with 14 direct applicants per place, and that's only the ones they were interviewing. Thus I'd estimate the average to be nearer 7, but somewhere between 7 and 14.

And yet the prospectus figure has stayed as 17% acceptance for a three-year average? Methinks they've been fiddling it...

Application numbers have really shot up in the last couple of year; as a three year avaerage I would say 1/6 is fairly accurate, though last year it probable stood at 1/8, maybe higher. E+M has snowballed in the last couple of years.

Application numbers have really shot up in the last couple of year; as a three year avaerage I would say 1/6 is fairly accurate, though last year it probable stood at 1/8, maybe higher. E+M has snowballed in the last couple of years.

I have absolutely no idea, I'm afraid. We were just having a friendly sort of banter (you know the tedious type whenever you meet someone from the other place) and she said that in her freshers' guide there was a page dedicated to slagging us off or something like that. I've never seen it, so I don't know at all what she's referring to

(Now watch my rep plummet for making fun of Durham)

Physics is the best. Oxford is best for Physics, so Oxford is the best.
elpaw chose Oxford, so Oxford must be the best.
Mathematics is best at Cambridge and fishpaste chose Cambridge, so Cambridge is also very good.

*shakes head* Crazily low acceptance rate, depressing statistics, so I've stopped bothering about them. I made up my mind to apply long ago so I'm just going to go for it. That's all anyone can do, really.

Good night all

Physics is the best. Oxford is best for Physics, so Oxford is the best.
elpaw chose Oxford, so Oxford must be the best.
Mathematics is best at Cambridge and fishpaste chose Cambridge, so Cambridge is also very good.

My general view (perhaps slightly bias view, but even before I got into cambridge or even considered applying, this was my belief) is that Cambridge is better for Science and Maths, but oxford is better for Certain Arts (and business related subjects)