Oxbridge admissions - entry criteria

Hi everyone! I’m a single mom to an 11-year-old, and I’m starting to think about the future—specifically about Oxbridge admissions. I’d love some advice on what steps we can start taking now to improve her chances of getting in. She’s doing great academically and loves her sports, but we don’t have any direct contacts with Oxbridge experience. Any tips or guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks so much for your kindness and help!

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Original post by Anonymous

Hi everyone! I’m a single mom to an 11-year-old, and I’m starting to think about the future—specifically about Oxbridge admissions. I’d love some advice on what steps we can start taking now to improve her chances of getting in. She’s doing great academically and loves her sports, but we don’t have any direct contacts with Oxbridge experience. Any tips or guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks so much for your kindness and help!

wow 11 years old!

I don’t think there’s anything in particular she should do that will improve her chances of getting in especially when she hasn’t even chosen her GCSEs let alone sat them!

Please let her be a child! It’s lovely that’s she so intelligent and active already but honestly the best thing she can do is enjoy her time in secondary schools and pick GCSE subjects she’d enjoy. She might not even know what she wants to do in the future yet so please don’t pressure her

I’d say my biggest advice would be keep doing the sports she loves doing, build up the extra curricular in her academic interest ( e.g debate) and have fun finding out what she’d like to do!

Your UNI application comes down to what you’ve done in Year 12 and Year 13 and she’s miles off that point.

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Saffronnn•

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Original post by Anonymous

Hi everyone! I’m a single mom to an 11-year-old, and I’m starting to think about the future—specifically about Oxbridge admissions. I’d love some advice on what steps we can start taking now to improve her chances of getting in. She’s doing great academically and loves her sports, but we don’t have any direct contacts with Oxbridge experience. Any tips or guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks so much for your kindness and help!

She’s 11, let her live and don’t push your dreams on her !

As other comments have said, your child is only 11 years old. Oxbridge doesn't look at scores you get in primary school, but there are also other important factors like gcse+a level grades and a personal statement. Your daughter is nowhere near that yet- let her enjoy her childhood. When the time comes, you should support what aspirations she wants, whether this involves oxbridge or not

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Maximum-tragedy

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Let her have fun! The focus comes later in secondary and 6th form so just relax for now. Keep encouraging sports and anything she really enjoys so she can work on it when she is older

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