Why do YOU want to go to Oxbridge?

But I still love you, even if you can't distinguish between bears and primates.

I didn't mention this earlier in the thread, but it needs clearing up. I'm not going to lie: I fit in that category. I'd say I occupy its higher echelons.

i agree very much with that. law at lse for a male=21:1, oxford 3.6:1, cambridge 4.1:1. definitely LSE is harder to get. thats just law but it holds true across all subjects. it must be understood that PLENTY (the data suggests THE MAJORITY) of the higher achieving applicants DO NOT apply for oxbridge. its definitely the case in my college though i think public schools have a very different demographic and thats where alot of TSR are coming from.

No, I didn't say that. I only said that choosing a course just because it included authors I enjoyed was a superficial reason because for me the aim of an English degree is to become as well-read as possible and to have as wide and broad an understanding of all forms of English literature as possible, and following a course that has less depth but a few more authors I enjoyed (which is different to following a course that interests me) seems superficial in comparison. This was a fleeting point, produced when I tried to conceive of a course I'd actually dislike.