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Know anyone who should've gotten into Oxbridge but didn't?

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Reply 40

alex_hk90

im so academic

Like for example? :s-smilie:

I don't think such a course exists at undergraduate level, everything seems to be less than 10 to 1 at Cambridge anyway: http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/statistics/subjects.html

Reply 41

Efreisone

Statistics really mean very little at the end of the day. It's your intellectual calibre compared to that of others

Reply 42

fisherman

Well, my school gives out very low predicted grades, other students I've talked to say their school gives out AAA predictions to anyone who needs them. And cambridge said the biggest factor in me being rejected was my predicted grades. So I could say me. But hey, reapplied this year, and I'm pretty hopeful.

Reply 43

Arnie Pie In The Sky

Yeah I know this genius. Had a horrible interview for Law (despite him being very outgoing). In the summer, he got 6 full marks out of 9 exams. He's trying again for Oxford this year.

Reply 44

SiaSiaSia

T-o dore

ye my friend for ppe - 10A*, 5As, 4As at a level and did loads of work experience, extra curriculars, really interesting, lovely person etcetc.

She went out the night before the interview so unsurprosingly she was probably a bit drowsy :biggrin:

She did nineteen GCSEs?

Reply 45

nirvathema

SiaSiaSia

She did nineteen GCSEs?

15 GCSEs, 4 A levels

Reply 46

Edenr

didgeridoo12uk

just gettin 4 or 5A's doesnt mean you SHOULD get into oxbridge, if so then thousands of extra people a year probably SHOULD get into oxbridge.

alot of its how you perform at interview, if they think they can teach you etc

Very true.

Anyway, my friend - got an offer, but missed it because she didn't get what she needed in her STEP This is for Cambridge.

Not getting my STEP grades will go down as my biggest failing.

Reply 47

SiaSiaSia

nirvathema

15 GCSEs, 4 A levels

Oh hahaha I read that wrong.
Still, 15 GCSEs?! Which ones?! :s-smilie:

Reply 48

faber niger

Me!!

Alas, as much as I'm currently at Manchester University, I've applied to start at Cambridge this year; result pending...

Reply 49

nirvathema

jismith1989

Me!!

Alas, even though I'm currently at Manchester University, I've applied to start at Cambridge this year; result pending...

I didn't know you could do that!

Reply 50

faber niger

nirvathema

I didn't know you could do that!

You can, it's not so easy though. You need full support of your current university -- which may not be so simple to obtain as it sounds, because you leaving would most likely have a negative financial effect on the university. Also, funding may not be given for the extra year (though it may -- depends on the whim of your LEA).

Reply 51

The Sherminator

im so academic

Like for example? :s-smilie:

Some courses at the LSE are 25:1 or greater...

I have met some geniuses at LSE who I think would be well suited at Oxbridge, but during my cycle and people I knew, they were all talented enough to do well there, but they weren't exceptional enough for me to think that they definitely deserved an offer. On the flip side, I know people who I think, did/do they deserve offers? I think all applicants at some level are decent enough for getting accepted, but some people who get in, are sometimes either lucky on the day, or click with tutors where others just don't.

Reply 52

ADREAM

Well if they didn't get in, then surely they 'shouldn't have got in?' Or am i just being a prick?

Reply 53

User188463

SiaSiaSia

She did nineteen GCSEs?

nirvathema

15 GCSEs, 4 A levels

ye sorry not very clear. She got 10A* at gcse, 5 a's at AS and 4 a's at A-level

lol but i do know a guy who got 15A*

Reply 54

Antonia87

A girl in my secondary school achieved 13 A*s at GCSE and four As at A Level and she was rejected from Oxford without an interview, but was accepted into Cambridge.

Reply 55

watermelon sugar

i have a friend who got rejecte without interview for maths, which i really didn't expect. he's the kind of guy who spends his spare time studying maths for fun and working out proofs just for kicks. everything comes so easily to him, he got 5 As at AS and he's so passionate about the subject.
hum ho :frown:

Reply 56

faber niger

ADREAM

Well if they didn't get in, then surely they 'shouldn't have got in?' Or am i just being a prick?

No, you're just being factually inaccurate. :wink:

The question does not refer to what did happen, but what one would have liked to have happened. The two do not have to be equivalent.

Antonia87

A girl in my secondary school achieved 13 A*s at GCSE and four As at A Level and she was rejected from Oxford without an interview, but was accepted into Cambridge.

Reapplied?

With physics I think loads of people thought they could blag the entrance exam and didn't really revise. Only 1 out of the 5 people who applied at my school for physics got an interview.

Reply 59

im so academic

The Sherminator

Some courses at the LSE are 25:1 or greater...
I have met some geniuses at LSE who I think would be well suited at Oxbridge, but during my cycle and people I knew, they were all talented enough to do well there, but they weren't exceptional enough for me to think that they definitely deserved an offer. On the flip side, I know people who I think, did/do they deserve offers? I think all applicants at some level are decent enough for getting accepted, but some people who get in, are sometimes either lucky on the day, or click with tutors where others just don't.