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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oxbridge interviews.are very different than US college interviews. If you're a smart cookie and practice, you should do fine. [/quote]

Being in the top 5% of the subject test does NOT assure a student an offer of admission (as my DC, who won regional awards for debate, learned the hard way). All the cookies who are invited to interviews at Oxford are smart, and most interview relatively well. Yet only 1/3 of interviewees get offers of admission.

I have a good friend who still has nightmares about her Oxford rejection twenty years ago. Today, she is a tenured faculty member at an Ivy. She is definitely a smart cookie.

Yes, Oxford is much more objective than the US system. However, they still take only 10% of applicants (fewer in the most competitive courses) and there is a fair amount of randomness in who gets accepted. Colleges look to balance gender, geography, etc.

All this is to say -- go for it!  But be realistic about any one student's chances. There are no 'likely' candidates, I'd say, though there may be some who can reasonably think of Oxbridge as a target. 
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Im the PP. It is simple. Just go look at the UK freedom of info site and you can find data from recent yrs on percentage offered based on TSA or MAT scores. I can tell you that with a 95 percentile score, you are pretty much a shoe in if you made it that far….[/quote]

And I tell you, my DC was in the top 5% of the subject test, had great stats from US high school, and did not get an offer.

Got accepted to multiple US T20s.  I heard part of the Oxford zoom interview -- might not have been outstanding, but wasn't a train wreck.

DC is headed to a T10 in the US, so all is well. I only continue to respond to you bc I think that managing expectations is really important, as the admissions process is really hard on a lot of kids.
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Thanks for sharing and I agree with you. DCUM keeps saying how Oxbridge admission is easier or more straightforward than US T10 admission for high stats kids like mine, but the admissions statistics are all available online and I've checked them out for Oxford. The acceptance rate is pretty darn low for US students. Not quite as low as Harvard or MIT, but the academic and logistical barriers required to just apply to Oxford are higher, so naturally the pool will be more qualified than for US schools because there will be fewer unserious applicants. [/quote]

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