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Recent figures from UCAS  \n• LSE: 26,000 applications for 1700 places (2021)– 15 per place  \n• King’s: 65,000 applicants for 6000 places – 11 per place  \n• Manchester: 88, 330 applicants for 11, 070 places (2023)– 8 per place  \n• Imperial: 8 per place.  \n• Oxford – 7 per place  \n• City: 25,000 applicants for 3600 places – 7 per place  \n• Cambridge – 6 per place  \n• Exeter: 35,000 applicants for 7500 places – 5 per place  \n• But! Good state school applicants are very desirable to top institutions  \nGuess the %  \n• ...of state school students at Oxford?  \n• ...of state school students at Cambridge?  \n68% 72.5%  \nTallis outcomes  \n• So: Tallis gets students into the Russell Group all the time – 102 students or 38% of our cohort last year, including to all the places on the previous slide  \n• And: a very significant proportion of Tallis applicants held an RG place, but chose not to take it up.  \n• NB Sutton Trust says: sector average for RG places is 25%(comprehensives), 60%(commercial schools)  \n• Getting in to a highly competitive university certainly can be done – but it requires correctly focused preparation  \nEarly Application Deadline: 15 Oct 2025 Oxford or Cambridge, Medicine etc  \n• Applications are still through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.  \n• Earlier application deadline  \n• Extra steps after this may include: submission of written work, admissions tests (sat at the end of October), interview  \nDetailed analysis: Oxford 2023 figures from Ms McGowan  \nDetailed analysis: Cambridge 2023 figures from Ms McGowan  \nThe Russell Group more generally  \n• We believe the pattern of applications to most of the leading UK universities is broadly the same  \n• Courses perceived as giving entry to the professions tend to receive a higher number of applicants  \n• A different course within the same university – and within the same department, even – may have lower entry requirements and fewer applications.  \nConsider the odds  \n• State school students apply in disproportionate numbers for the most competitive courses: Law, PPE, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics → this is true of Tallis applicants  \n• This may be because such courses seem more vocationally focused than e.g. Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse.  \n• However, some courses have relatively few applicants per place.  \n• Assertion: the commercial schools know this and game the system accordingly → hence one reason for their 60% figure...  \n• ...and also explains the worse degree performance of the commercially educated at university (on average) than state school students...(other factors also involved...)","cbCaigXYjtxdIlJr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigXYjtxdIlJr","pdf",287803,21,"English","# What is the Russell Group?\n# How competitive for entry?\n# Guess the %\n# Tallis outcomes\n# Early Application Deadline: 15 Oct 2025\n# The Russell Group more generally\n# Consider the odds","[{\"question\":\"What does the Russell Group represent in the document?\",\"answer\":\"The Russell Group is described as older, richer, more prestigious, and typically larger than average universities. 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