The Official Oxbridge Rumour Thread

I don't think private/state makes a difference. Once you've got an interview you're on level pegging with everyone else and the most intelligent will get in.

Not true

Still, wouldn't you get a sense with private school applicants that daddy just paid for interview coaching? And that they just apply because everyone else at the school applies? It annoys me when people think that. I hope interviews are transparent anyways.

hence the title "the official oxbridge rumour thread"

people write RUMOURS they have heard, we don't need other people going around stating the untruthfullness in them.

The part where state/private makes a difference would be actually getting an interview in terms of getting the right grades/ applying in the first place.

You need at least 5 A*s at GCSE to apply
Certain colleges are easier to get into than others
They don't like state school students

Separate the two pieces of both bourbon and custard cream, and re-attach them with an opposite pair, using the same model with the cream filling. Spatial and problem-solving skills shown, as well as an awareness of the importance of race relations.

They don't like state school students

Thats a complete lie, its about 50/50 state schools and private schools there!

Thats a complete lie, its about 50/50 state schools and private schools there!

You may think that's fair, but when it comes down to the statistics, for it to be fair it should be staterivate at a ratio of:

8:92, as only 8% of sixth form students are in private education.

To condense these figures its a ratio of:

2:23

So for every 2 private schoolers that get in, 23 state schoolers should get in to make it a fair system, as if 50% of sixth form students was privately educated, your figures would be right; but because it's only 8% that are privately educated, 2:23 is a fair figure.

Its true, I slipped up on the tea cosy questions - but in my defence its not that easy to recover from a cricket ball to the face.

Utter rubbish, you need to be comparing the percentages that apply to the percentages getting in, and iirc the statistics are pretty similar. (ie. The same percentage of state school students applying recieving offers is roughly the same percentage as that of private school pupils get in)

Receiving offers and getting in are two different terms as one may get an offer of AAA and get AAB, and therefore does not get into Oxbridge.

Your whole post serves as a perfect explanation of why you were undeserving of a place. Furthermore, all sorts of well-qualified candidates from many different types of school are rejected, including this incredibly bitter chap from Harrow.

I heard they take you to a forest during the interview and ask you to determine the ages of random trees and rocks.