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[ewx]

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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[karen2205]

Yeah, my memory of exact figures is getting hazy now - I think there were seven Oxford applications out of which I was the only one to get an offer. Someone else got an offer for Cambridge but didn't get the right grades. One person - Jacqui, reapplied the following year and got an offer, and there may have been some random scientists about too.

But what I remember more than anything is how guilty I felt about getting an offer when Nimit didn't get one. He didn't seem all that bothered by it, and to be honest, I imagine he was happier in a less work intense place (LSE), but I felt so incredibly guilty about it all - particularly when he got better 'A' levels than me....