Which college has the highest ratio of state schooled students?
Overall University-wide 47.1% of offers are given to State Schoolers – so presumably a similar percentage of current students come from the maintained section. 9 colleges give more than 60% of their offers to state-schooled students (Harris Manchester, Hertford, Keble, Mansfield, Merton, St. Anne’s, St. John’s, Somerville and Wadham) – but if you’re trying to play the statistics game rather than hoping to find somewhere where you’ll fit in then be warned. Although St. John’s are widely sold as the “state school college” 73.6% of their applicants are from State Schools (compared to a university average of 47.6) so they’re not practicing positive discrimination in some way. Similarly Harris Manchester gave 77.8% of its offers to students from the maintained sector in 2006, but 93.8% of applicants were from maintained schools. There are actually four colleges which in 2006 gave a “disproportionate” amount of offers to state schooled students: Brasenose, Oriel, Pembroke and Worcester.
