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Stop writing all British characters as having gone to Oxford or Cambridge in fanfic 2k15.

Some things to consider if you’re writing a character who attends or has attended Oxbridge;

  • Only 1 in 100 state school (more commonly known as ‘public school’ in the USA)  educated students attend Oxford or Cambridge (source: BBC)
  • Private school educated students are five times more likely to get into Oxford or Cambridge than state school educated students (source: The Telegraph)
  • Oxford only accepted about 18% of their applicants for undergraduate study in 2014 (source: Oxford University)
  • The easiest course to get onto at Oxford is modern languages and linguistics (with a 44% acceptance rate), whereas the hardest is economics with but a 7% acceptance rate (source: publictableu.com)
  • Russell Group Universities (AKA: Ivy League for England) are much more likely to consider you if you’ve studied a language at some point, so bare that in mind if your character is monolingual.
  • It also helps if your character plays an instrument well.
  • It’s not enough to just have great grades either; your character will also have to do a lot of extracurricular activities to have a fighting chance at being accepted (ergo; school paper, head boy/head girl, debating society, member of a school sports team, etc). 

Of course, you could take artistic license and ignore the above; fanfiction doesn’t have to be a documentary, after all. You could have five friends all miraculously get into Cambridge on the same course if that’s what you enjoy writing. but if you want to write a more realistic fanfiction, then the above should be a good starting point. 

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