The New Statesman
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In the 2023 admissions cycle, Cambridge made just 4,553 undergraduate offers out of 21,445 applications, while Oxford selected 3,721 from 23,211 .
Robert Rinder , Steph McGovern and Sara Ali Khan are among the few to reveal their Oxbridge rejections.
Oliver Dobbs applied to Oxford six times across various colleges and courses before getting in.
Durham student Rachel Tong Ng posts regularly on TikTok about her university’s “ Oxbridge reject” status.
Claudia Vulliamy went viral in 2017 after making art from her Oxford rejection letter.
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