<p>The following article makes it clear what really counts in UK university admissions:
[Universities</a> uninterested in pupils’ extra-curricular activities - Telegraph](<a href=“Universities uninterested in pupils' extra-curricular activities”>Universities uninterested in pupils' extra-curricular activities)</p>
<p>The director of undergraduate admissions at Oxford, Mr Nicholson, told the Times Educational Supplement: “It really doesn’t matter if you haven’t got any friends or hobbies or if you don’t do any charitable work …[Acceptance] is a purely academic judgement.”</p>
<p>Or put it in the British way, “because dons do not want second-rate historians who happen to play the flute”…</p>