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Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by stordoff on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:16AM (#16866339)
Worth noting that "for a standard undergraduate degree there are specific and strict academic requirements for admission to Oxford and Cambridge" isn't strictly true. A College can vary the admission criteria as it sees fit, and EE/unconditional offers can and have been given.

https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/entrance-...

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Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by mikhailfranco on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:59AM (#16866579)
I think those low offers were typical in the days of the separate entrance exam. I took the (4th term) undergraduate entrance exam for Oxford. When I got the telegram "not required for interview at Oxford" I thought I had failed. But then got accepted with an EE offer (two minimum-pass E grades at A-level) without the need for an interview.
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Re:Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician by lozenge on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:44PM (#16869865)
Nowadays the low offers are for those competing in the International Maths Olympiad and similar competitions, so they can spend less time on the irrelevant A Levels.
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