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It doesn’t. It is necessary to take (and pay for) some extra tests.</p>
<p>The number of overseas students accepted for medicine every year at each of Oxford and Cambridge is 10 or fewer. You have to understand that if you son applies for admsision to this course, even if he is the best student in the world his chances of sucess are very small due to the quota mentioned by Laylah above.</p>
<p>To have the Oxbridge experience your son could apply to do a year abroad with a US school, or pay to join a summer program (many are held in the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge but run by private companies and not educationally connected to these unis).</p>