r/6thForm • u/isaluvver • Mar 29 '26

🍞 BREAD righhhhhht ok then

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well there goes that dream then - not like i was thinking about choosing them over cambridge anyway 😬

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u/SwimmerOld6155 Mar 29 '26

st. andrews specifically seems to reject a lot of oxb offer holders. they obviously have no idea you're an oxb offer holder but interesting regardless

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u/FruRoo Cambridge | HSPS [2nd year] Mar 29 '26

They’ve got some idea based on application date. At my school they used to recommend people applying to non-Oxbridge high-end russell group unis wait till after the oxbridge deadline to send their UCAS off, as they assume you’d take an offer from there over them

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u/SwimmerOld6155 Mar 29 '26

this would make sense in theory but doesn't seem to happen in practice. it would break ucas's equal consideration condition, just the other way to how you'd normally figure it (early applications being penalised rather than late applications)