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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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I could wish I hadn't got in - i nearly went to Salford, which had a smashing course for what i wanted to do. If I had, when I was ill, it might not have scuppered my chances of getting a decent degree (for reference, i have an ordinary, which is to say, a 'not-worth-the-paper-it-is-printed-on), rather than me working myself into being ill twice in my third year trying to get a third so I could do the (much less exam oriented) fourth year.

On the other hand - I'd not have met senji, so...

In terms of school and stuff - we usually had 15-17 'oxbridge' candidates, about 10-15 would get offers, and almost never did someone not accept an offer. One of my friends (who got 6 A-grade A-Levels (no, we didn't do General Studies)) didn't get an offer, and felt really bad about it.