CBAs and University

Hello! Sorry to bother you, and I hope that this forum makes… some sense? Probably not, sorry! And that I’m doing this somewhat vaguely correctly, which is also unlikely — sorry! Sorry.

I’m a Second Year (fourteen years old, year before the Junior Cert — like the GCSEs, but less important, I think) in Ireland, but am a British citizen. I desperately want to apply to Oxford or Cambridge, and whilst I know my chances are very slender, until about… an hour and thirty-five minutes ago, I thought I had a good chance of being strong enough in academics. However, I just got in line with expectations in my Business CBA

For more context, CBAs are… a strange Irish thing. The marks are exceptional, above expectations, in line with expectations and yet to meet expectations, although these are a bit funny; the assumption is that almost everyone will get in line, a few above or yet to meet, and perhaps a couple exceptional. They’re sort of like a fancy project in content, and whilst they don’t exactly affect the Junior Cert until the Third Year ones, one gets a slip of paper with one’s results at the same time as one’s Junior Cert results, and they are a legal, state thing, connected to the Junior Cert.

I got in line with expectations for my CBA, which was drastically lower than I was expecting. It is not a terrible grade — almost everyone in the class got it — and it was a group project for which everyone got the same grade, so the fault was not entirely mine. However, knowing how competitive Oxbridge is — and I think that GCSEs, at least, have some impact? — I was wondering if any-one had any ideas on if it would affect my chances? I don’t intend to apply for anything even vaguely related to Business, if that matters; probably English, maybe History or Classics.

Sorry, I know this is ridiculously far in advance, but I am… very worried, to say the least. Thank you in advance, and I’m very sorry for… everything that’s probably wrong with this! Sorry.