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I really want to go to Oxford but I think I fall short

Okay so I plan to take the LNAT but right now my stats are 999777765 , the 9s are in English lit language and history , i do alevel literature history and maths, i got an A* in lit and A in history and a C in maths and my predicted is AAC , i feel as though i can push my teacher to give me an A* prediction in history and B in maths, im also eligible for the contextual offer from Oxford for AAB and I’m doing an EPQ
Original post by Ghost1619
Okay so I plan to take the LNAT but right now my stats are 999777765 , the 9s are in English lit language and history , i do alevel literature history and maths, i got an A* in lit and A in history and a C in maths and my predicted is AAC , i feel as though i can push my teacher to give me an A* prediction in history and B in maths, im also eligible for the contextual offer from Oxford for AAB and I’m doing an EPQ

Where do you see that Oxford make a contextual offer of AAB? I'm not aware of this, unless you mean for the foundation year (which is a different route in).
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Original post by artful_lounger
Where do you see that Oxford make a contextual offer of AAB? I'm not aware of this, unless you mean for the foundation year (which is a different route in).


Sorry I got it wrong it was another uni k was quoting
Original post by Ghost1619
Sorry I got it wrong it was another uni k was quoting


Unfortunately unless you're eligible for the foundation year (do check the eligibility criteria as I think the entry criteria are slightly lower than for direct entry since it's a widening participation scheme), you probably wouldn't be competitive if not predicted the standard offer for the course in your A-levels - I think you'd need to get the maths prediction up to an A in that case.
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Original post by artful_lounger
Unfortunately unless you're eligible for the foundation year (do check the eligibility criteria as I think the entry criteria are slightly lower than for direct entry since it's a widening participation scheme), you probably wouldn't be competitive if not predicted the standard offer for the course in your A-levels - I think you'd need to get the maths prediction up to an A in that case.

I wanna apply to oxford as well. I have 99998-877765 and A*A*A* predicted with an A* in epq achieved. With the context that oxford uses in GCSE score i should be eligible but I am aware that Oxford only interview around 30-40% of their applicants so I'm quite worried that I wouldn't get an interview because of my GCSEs which would crush me icl. I am currently practicing for LNAT as well. Do you think I'd be a competitive applicant or not?
Original post by D.K25
I wanna apply to oxford as well. I have 99998-877765 and A*A*A* predicted with an A* in epq achieved. With the context that oxford uses in GCSE score i should be eligible but I am aware that Oxford only interview around 30-40% of their applicants so I'm quite worried that I wouldn't get an interview because of my GCSEs which would crush me icl. I am currently practicing for LNAT as well. Do you think I'd be a competitive applicant or not?

I don't see any reason not to apply unless you tank the LNAT...

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