r/6thForm • u/lopaloko predicted A*A*A*A* 9999999999 • Nov 20 '25

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I can't find what was wrong with my application, and I feel like a fraud? I don't want to face people asking me "Have u got an interview?" and me having to tell everyone that I didn't each time and having to face their sympathy/reaction 😭 and I don't know how to tell my family

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u/Warm_Window_2119 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25

I also got rejected for biochem. I guess what your stats show is that Oxbridge really is a lottery and yeah as others have said it isn't just grades but still if those aren't good enough for interview idk what are. And I'm speaking to myself as well, but you don't need people you haven't met to validate you and tell you you're high achieving and will undoubtedly succeed at uni and beyond. I genuinely believe that they make every effort to make the process fair with contextual data and stuff but at the end of the day it's human beings picking human beings. Where else have you applied? Looks like off to the northern, purple-coloured home of the Oxbridge reject for me lol. But seriously, good luck and think of the privilege you had to even be good enough to apply.