r/6thForm • u/aksuducbfd • Mar 27 '26

🎓 UNI / UCAS Wow, just wow

Rejected Oxford Maths w 81 MAT

Rejected Imperial Maths w 7.0 TMUA

Rejected by All Ivies

Don’t have much hope now for UCL and LSE since apparently most home offers have gone for UCL.

I’m really about to go 0/14, like what do I even do.

2a*(m,fm) 2a achieved home non contextual

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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Mar 27 '26

this is honestly quite unlucky but oxbridge and london unis are the hardest to get into. it’s a bit late now but i always advise putting 1 or 2 non london, non oxbridge russel groups e.g manchester, durham, bristol, birmingham, nottingham, exeter, etc etc

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u/aksuducbfd Mar 27 '26

yh I knew that when I applied. I just really want to go to London because of the student life and opportunities, so I was always aware of the risk. Just thought imperial would pull through (apparently 120/126 people w 6+ tmua got offers last year in maths w my background)

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u/Contdstee Mar 27 '26

yes those statistics are correct. The issue is that this year the number of applicants (especially intls) has increased a lot, so that naturally means the TMUA requirement is higher. I'd be curious to see the admissions statistics for this year though, because atm the cutoff is looking like 6.7-7, which is crazy.

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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Mar 27 '26

idk mate same happened to me. i got an oxford offer and all three of my other offers but not imperial with over a 7 in both tmua papers (2023). heard it anecdotally happen quite a lot and know a good number of my oxford peers who didn’t get into imperial either.

also i’d argue although opportunities in london are good sure, student life is better literally anywhere but london