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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do US Students get into Oxbridge science programs?

The website says they expect 5 AP scores, focuses on or near the major, including Calculus BC and Physics C (both parts) scores. It's rare to take all of these and extremely rare to take them all in junior year, and also take more related APs like Bio and Chem and CS.

Do US high school students take a gap year  and apply to Oxbridge after senior year? [/quote]

They get a[b] conditional offer an[/b]d once they pass the APs their senior year the offer is available for them accept.[/quote]

T[b]his (and this is one of the reasons why the Oxbridge application is so difficult for Americans).  Our DC's acceptance to a graduate program was also conditional.  One of the conditions was achieving a certain GPA at their college during Covid.  I don't remember the other condition.  And Oxford means it.  You don't meet the conditions you are out.[/quote][/b]

+1.  There are many posts out there about conditional versus unconditional offers.  IMHE the only unconditional offers were to Rhodes.  My DC did not meet one of the conditions for grad work but his university went to bat for him and got Oxford to change its mind but it was a harrowing 8 weeks while we waited.  https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4485696.[/quote]

My kid has an u[b]nconditional offer to undergrad [/b]but had done 6 APs by junior year (5s), with 3 in the subject area, published original research related to course, and knocked the interview out of the ballpark (the interviewers were impressed and told the college to find a bursary for my kid if possible).  [/quote]

Most excellent!  My kid's was conditional.[/quote]

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