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muriel_volestrangler

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4. Well, the list is 3 people

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:57 AM

Jan 2012

One of whom lied (and that could well have become clear in the interview). Oxford gets about 17,000 applications for 3,000 places each year, so there are bound to be some rejections that you can look back on in later years and say "maybe they would have done well". Ironically, JK Rowling's books caused a renaissance for privately-run boarding schools, a vital part of the 'snooty class system', as children decided they could be fun to go to after all.

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Student rejects Oxford U - way cool!! [View all] malaise Jan 2012 OP

My brother in law exboyfil Jan 2012 #1

Indeed - I did laugh at the list of rejected malaise Jan 2012 #2

Well, the list is 3 people muriel_volestrangler Jan 2012 #4

so she passes up an opportunity to interview at one of the top universities in the world DrDan Jan 2012 #3