Oxford Application 2026 advice

Hey, so i'm currently in Y12 aspiring to study Law and Spanish at University with Oxford being one of my choices, (the others include Bristol,Southampton,Warwick and LSE), however i achieved A*AB in my mocks (psychology,spanish,politics). I wouldnt say im unhappy with these, but my politics teacher is hesitant about increasing my grade to an A (because i haven't achieved one yet) and im really worried on whether or not i can make an application now because i don't have the grades. There's a mock in september which im preparing extensively for, but if i happen to not achieve an A, its unlikely that these grades are going to change-keeping in mind that all unis i want to apply to require AAA or A*AA.
Also i feel quite guilty about not revising or preparing for admissions/interviews as much as i should, but even looking at the low scores i get on these tests make me feel like i shouldn't apply (LNAT score is around 17 currently), i've being trying to put in all the practice i can and i really want to give Oxford a shot, but im worried about overly stressing about this in Y13 and if it would be better to not apply. Any advice would be so helpful!

Look at it this way - Oxford is 1 choice out of 5. If things go well and you get that A on your UCAS predicted grades then you would have a competitive application and it would be worth applying. If things don't go well and you have a B on your application then my suggestion would be not to apply for Oxford as you don't meet their minimum offer requirement.
My bigger concern for your application is that you are looking at 5 courses that all have the same typical offer. Why? In the end you're going to firmly accept 1 offer and accept the other offer as an insurance in case you miss the first one. However, with those universities, if you miss your firm then that's it because your insurance offer would be essentially the same. So my advice to you would be to have a greater range in the universities you are applying to. Especially if you are worried about your LNAT scores. Look at some other unis that still offer very good law courses but at a grade range you can be more confident with (because let's be fair, 90% of this post is about your confidence) and that way when you hear back from the unis you have some real options instead of just which insanely competitive uni are you going to put first. Does that make sense?

Hi thanks for the reply. You're right about that, ive been told before that its not good to apply to all competitve universities and that i should have some safer choices. When i originally began making my decisions on where to apply, i was focusing more on rankings and how well they tend to do, i'm going to do some further research and opt for some less ambitious but equally good universities. The only issue with this is that mostly all the other unis i have researched for law which aren't the ones i have listed are quite far away and also don't have very good reputations. -Nevertheless, i'd rather apply to one of those than go through clearing on results day.Thankyou for your advice!

No problem and thank you for a lovely reply
I'll let you into a little secret - the rankings don't mean anything
It used to be that the big law firms were only interested in graduates from certain unis but that view is quite old fashioned now and is starting to age away. So my advice to you is to worry not about that. Obviously still be ambitious and go to a university that you feel will match your academic skillset, but don't do so because you are worried about the reputation the university holds.

Honestly i couldn't agree more with you. It tends to be pressure from school and family to apply to these prestigious universities, if there were less expectations from them i probably wouldn't be so concerned about which number the university holds on a ranking list. Hopefully all goes well and that i actually decide to apply to the uni's which match my needs.