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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually the poster talking about prep schools in the UK has a point. Most of Oxbridge is filled with public school (UK public - as in private) kids something like 75% average.

The truth is these schools produce better A level grades because they are vastly better schools and they only take the brightest kids.[/quote]

You might want to look up the stats. It's closer to 55-60% are from state schools at Oxbridge. But I think this also includes grammars. So it's a little murky. Other leading universities including Durham (long known for being popular among private school kids), Edinburgh (ditto), Bristol (ditto) etc are usually at least 60% from state schools and higher.

Oxbridge and the Ivies are are also similar in that they tend to take a high percentage of students from the same set of public and private schools but it's a what came first, the chicken or egg, situation. The state intake at Oxbridge will be heavily weighted towards the same handful of leading state schools across the UK. Ditto for the US. [/quote]

Wrong. The uk universities do not have quotas in the way US schools do. They do not have affirmative action they literally only care about the grade and interview of the candidate. Yes, most of those top chosen candidates come from elite schools. An Oxbridge kid going from a poor town and a state school happens, but only when that kid is extraordinary.[/quote]

Oxbridge are decidedly aware that they have a problem with too few low income and minority students. My DD is at Cambridge and the university as well as individual colleges are actively working to recruit applicants from nontraditional sources. While Oxbridge may be "all about the scores," there is wiggle room at interview to accept a highly motivated, yet not as high scoring candidate. Colleges can encourage things by setting individualized offer terms. For my DD's course cohort, there was a realization after offer day that admitted students had been given different offer conditions.

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