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in Medicine, the acceptance rate was 15.5% of applicants from maintained schools, 19.3% from independent schools, and only 4.4% from "other" schools.
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<p>Anyone who applies to UK medicine note that this is the only subject with a quota of students which have to be from the UK. I think Oxford are only allowed to accept 7-8 overseas medicine students per year because the UK government (who bankroll Oxford. it's effectively like a US state school) needs to train a certain number of doctors to work in the national health service. Training overseas students who will then leave is not a good investment. The above stats probably relate to undergraduatre medicine (a 6 year course for students straight out of high school). There is also a 4 year graduate medicine course (which has a reputation for being one of the most competitive in the university).</p>
<p>Yulsie, thank you for your post. I often read posts here about how Oxford only accepts 2 US students a year etc etc. This is a MYTH. Or are the other 800 Americans here a figment of my imagination?</p>