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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it an easier admit than Harvard? [/quote]
Let’s put it this way.

Top student from UK, often 30% chance, depending on field

Top US student (unhooked) at Harvard? I’d give it 2%.

Oxbridge for an American student is lower, but way higher than 2%![/quote]
Acceptance rate for academic 2s is 12%.[/quote]

Where is this information from? That lawsuit?

Not sure of the criteria for a Harvard academic 2. If it's near perfect stats with top rigor and great recommendations, but no national awards, that sounds like the criteria for Oxford. Oxford is still an easier admit, and likely takes more than 12% of such applicants in most subjects.

FYI, for Oxbridge major really really matters. Being accepted to study modern languages is not remotely like being accepted for medicine or PPE. [/quote]

The acceptance rates for Americans at Oxford are a fraction of the overall acceptance rates across majors. Oxford publishes detailed statistics, and you can find the numbers there. Singapore has the highest acceptance rate among foreign countries. China’s is twice as high as for US. [/quote]

Oxford is prejudiced against US applicants bc they are much less likely to yield than students from all other countries.  Most of the candidates they want to admit will also have other offers from US T10s, and even with an offer from Oxford, tend to choose the Ivy League.  This is particularly true now that Oxford pegs tuition for international students to US Ivy levels.  [/quote]
Why would Oxford care about yield? They have no incentive to not make an offer even if it's likely the student will turn them down, since Oxford doesn't lose anything in that case.[/quote]

Oxford has no waitlist; almost every UK student and non-American international student who gets an offer turns up for the first term. They don't have a waitlist bc they don't need a waitlist.

Americans with competing offers from Harvard and Stanford are the exceptions -- they often choose to stay in the US.  Oxford tutors don't like that, not because they are worried about how the yield rate will affect the university's interest rates, but because having unfilled places is something tutors want to avoid:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oxforduni/comments/1e6cfr1/ama_i_did_ppe_admissions_for_5_years/

Why tutors are opposed to leaving empty places, I don't know. I'd guess that there's some kind of internal accounting involved that gives tutors an incentive to have butts in each and every seat.

The end result is that top American students seem to be disadvantage in Oxford admissions. There seems to be no credible way for such students to signal that Oxford it their first choice rather than a backup for Harvard.[/quote]
This is the comment where they mention the American disadvantage: https://www.reddit.com/r/oxforduni/comments/1e6cfr1/comment/ldtu0mz/

I wonder if they disadvantage the strongest applicants more than others since those are the most likely to lead to unfilled seats.

Oxford does have the winter pool - they could give US applicants a December deadline to commit or not so they can fill the spots with students from the winter pool.[/quote]

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