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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if predicted grades / scores are required for the UCAS forms and the central Oxford admissions people, they don't seem to be used by the decision makers.

Oxford tutors don't trust predicted grades, even from UK teachers:

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

This link says they rely on GCSEs (which few US students would have), TSA scores, and -- most important -- interview results.

High SAT scores are necessary but not sufficient.  AP scores too.

Near-perfect SAT scores seem to correlate with very high TSA scores.  That's what gets students through the first cut.  Then the interviews are determinative.  About 30% of students interviewed are offered offers.

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If your school does not predict all 5's for the AP's for Oxford, then the application simply does not progress. You will be put on the waiting pile and when the interviews are set up you just won't get one. [/quote]

If your school won’t predict a 5 on all your APs, you probably shouldn’t be applying to Oxford anyway.

A college counselor who would do that —unless the kid has no 5s from junior year AND doesn’t have a prayer at a 5 in senior year — is out to get the kid.

I can’t see it happening.

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A counselor who doesn't predict that a kid will get all 5's, should tell the kid they can't predict 5's, and that the kid should apply elsewhere.  Predicting 5's, when that's not what they actually expect, can result in a kid getting a conditional offer, and then finding themselves without a school when AP results come out.  A counselor who facilitates that is the one who is acting unprofessionally.  Predicting multiple for a kid who had 1 or 2 in junior year and "a prayer" of getting some in senior year, is dishonest and unethical.[/quote]

And how would missing your Oxford offer leave you without a school? Almost every kid in that position would have other offers in the UK, and lots of options in the US. Keeping a US option live might involve forfeiting a deposit, though.[/quote]

Deadline to commit to US schools is before you get your scores?[/quote]

Yes, which is why I said that a kid who missed an Oxford offer could lose a deposit at a US backup.[/quote]

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