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It's so rare that the media talk anything but nonsense about Oxbridge admissions that it seems worth flagging it when they break the habit. Certainly my recollection is that those of my classmates who didn't get into Oxford or Cambridge weren't considered somehow inferior or to have failed; we all knew perfectly well that there was a large element of chance involved.

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Thank you for pointing this out! I shall cut it out and keep it, or at least cut and paste it, for the next time a trivial incident gets in the news because it happens at Oxbridge. Students kill themselves or take their clothes off at other universities, apparently.

(Personal experience? No one had been sent to Oxbridge from my school in living memory. I first had to be persuaded that Oxford wasn't a private university like Eton was a private school: an image I'd picked up from the meeja that nearly made me fail to consider Oxbridge.)