Your chances of getting into Oxford Law, and the LNAT score you need
For 2025 entry, 1,818 people applied for Law at Oxford, 575 were interviewed and 239 received offers: 13%. Built from the test scores and outcomes of 12,833 past applicants, released by Oxford.
Your chances
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- Your estimate from the scores and outcomes of 12,833 past applicants
- Adjusted for your grades, school and where you apply from
- A likely range, with each step that moved it
- What would change your odds, and a card to share
- Applied, 2025
- 1,818
- Interviewed
- 575
- Offers
- 23913%
Law selection in 2025
How many reached each stage in 2025. Your own chances appear here once you have answered.
| Stage | Students | AVG | You |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apply | 1,818 | ||
| Interview | 575 | 32% | ? |
| Offer | 239 | 13% | ? |
How the offer rate rises with LNAT score
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| LNAT | Offer rate | 80% confidence range |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0% | 0% to 0% |
| 11 | 0% | 0% to 0% |
| 12 | 0% | 0% to 0% |
| 13 | 0% | 0% to 0% |
| 14 | 0% | 0% to 0% |
| 15 | 0% | 0% to 0% |
| 16 | 1% | 0% to 1% |
| 17 | 1% | 1% to 1% |
| 18 | 1% | 1% to 1% |
| 19 | 1% | 1% to 1% |
| 20 | 2% | 1% to 2% |
| 21 | 2% | 2% to 3% |
| 22 | 3% | 3% to 3% |
| 23 | 4% | 4% to 4% |
| 24 | 5% | 5% to 6% |
| 25 | 7% | 6% to 7% |
| 26 | 9% | 8% to 9% |
| 27 | 12% | 11% to 12% |
| 28 | 15% | 14% to 15% |
| 29 | 19% | 18% to 20% |
| 30 | 24% | 23% to 25% |
| 31 | 29% | 28% to 30% |
| 32 | 36% | 35% to 37% |
| 33 | 42% | 42% to 44% |
| 34 | 48% | 47% to 51% |
| 35 | 54% | 52% to 59% |
| 36 | 58% | 55% to 65% |
| 37 | 60% | 56% to 68% |
| 38 | 61% | 57% to 70% |
| 39 | 61% | 57% to 70% |
| 40 | 61% | 57% to 70% |
| 41 | 61% | 57% to 70% |
| 42 | 61% | 57% to 70% |
Why you can trust this
12,833past applicants
3 yearsheld back in turn to test the curve (2023, 2024, 2025 entry)
94%of their score bands inside our range
Method and sources
Offer rates are fitted to the LNAT multiple-choice scores and outcomes of about 12,800 Law applicants (the 2016 figures include some graduate-entry applicants): 2015 to 2018 and 2022 to 2025 for offers, and 2014 to 2018 and 2022 to 2024 for interviews. Scores are ranked within each year, your score is placed among the exact multiple-choice marks of the 2025 applicants, and the level is set to Oxford's official 2025 offer rate for Law (M100). Where you apply from adjusts the estimate using the gap between UK and overseas offer rates in 2023 to 2025.
To test the curve's shape, we left out each of 2023, 2024 and 2025 in turn, giving the model that year's own overall offer rate, so the test checks only how offers spread across scores. In 17 of 18 score bands the actual offers fell inside the 80% range, so the ranges needed no widening.
The GCSE effect comes from Oxford's own Law table (2019 to 2023 entry, pooled). The A-level effect comes from Economics and Management's predicted A* tables, because Law's own A-level tables do not say whether grades are predicted or achieved. The school-type effect and the overlap between score, GCSEs and A-levels are borrowed from other courses' records. Oxford ranks Law applicants for interview on the GCSE score as well as both LNAT scores, and the Faculty reports that the GCSE score carries most of the weight for 2026 entry for applicants who have one.
- University of Oxford, Undergraduate Admissions Statistics 2025 (by course). Applicants, interviews and offers for Law (M100) by year of entry, domicile and school type, 2007 to 2025.
- University of Oxford, FOI/2017/Apr, FOI/20180422/3, FOI/202201/80, FOI/202508/806 and FOI/202506/653, with Oxford's 2017 reply on LNAT scores. LNAT multiple-choice scores and offers by applicant or by score, 2012 to 2018 and 2022 to 2025.
- University of Oxford, FOI/202506/653. LNAT essay marks and first-college interview marks by outcome, 2025.
- University of Oxford, FOI/202511/1262 and the Law Faculty's Law Admissions Reports 2024-5 and 2025-2026. LNAT averages for applicants and offer holders, and how the pre-interview rank is weighted.
- University of Oxford, FOI/20211210/1 (the 2022 admissions manual) and the Somerville College Law 2021-22 admissions report. The interview scale and the pre-interview weighting for 2022 entry.
- University of Oxford, FOI/202401/125. A-levels and GCSEs by outcome, pooled 2019 to 2023.
- University of Oxford, Law (Jurisprudence) course page. Entry requirements and the three-year admissions statistics.
- Grade equivalence: Ofqual, grade standards for new GCSEs (2017); Cambridge International, A guide to A*-G and 9-1 grades (2025); Ecctis for the IB, MYP grade comparisons with the GCSE (2021); University of Oxford, Law entrance requirements.
This estimate cannot see your personal statement, reference, college choice or LNAT essay mark. Predicted and achieved grades are treated the same, and the GCSE, A-level and school effects come from separate tables, so they may overlap slightly. The interview positions come from 2025 alone. The curve comes from earlier years, including 2022 and 2025 when the two LNAT scores were two of the three equal parts of the shortlisting rank; Oxford reports a rank weighted 80% on GCSEs for 2026 entry, so for applicants with GCSEs the curve may overstate how much your score matters now, and for applicants without a GCSE score, who are ranked on the LNAT alone, it may understate it. The Outside the UK setting pools EU and non-EU applicants, and EU applicants did worse (6.0% against 10.0% for non-EU over 2023 to 2025), so an EU estimate may be high. It covers Law (M100) only: Law with Law Studies in Europe has its own, lower offer rate.
Oxford Law admissions statistics
What the numbers Oxford has released say about getting into Law (Jurisprudence): how many people apply, how the LNAT and the interview sort them, and how the odds differ by where you apply from, your school and your grades.
1 in 8
applicants got an offer
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239 offers from 1,818 applicants for 2025 entry. Oxford makes 203 to 244 Law offers every year.
73%
of offers went to the top group on the multiple choice
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2025 entry: 172 of 235 offers went to the 503 applicants (28.5%) scoring 29 or more. Everyone else had a 5.0% offer rate.
97%
of interviewees marked 5 out of 5 got an offer
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71 of 73 for 2025 entry, on the first college's mark. Only 4 of 140 marked 1 or 2 did.
39%
of applicants with an essay mark of 67+ got an offer
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2025 entry: 73 of 187, against 1.9% (7 of 378) at 60 or below. Oxford marks the essay itself.
Oxford Law acceptance rate
For 2025 entry, 1,818 people applied for Law (Jurisprudence) at Oxford, 575 were interviewed and 239 received offers.
That is an offer rate of 13.1%, or about 1 in 8.
Oxford's own published acceptance rate counts only those who took up a place: 568 of 5,548, or 10%, over 2023 to 2025 entry.
Oxford makes a similar number of offers every year: between 203 and 244 in every year from 2007 to 2025. So the offer rate falls as applications rise.
- Applied
- Interviewed
- Offered a place
Applications rose by 69% between 2007 and 2025, from 1,077 to 1,818, with a peak of 1,872 for 2024 entry. The offer rate fell from 22.4% in 2007 to a low of 11.2% for 2022 entry.
About 3 in 10 applicants are interviewed: 31.6% for 2025 entry. If you are interviewed, your chance of an offer is about 2 in 5 (239 of 575), and it has stayed between 34% and 44% in every year since 2007.
Law with Law Studies in Europe is counted separately by Oxford: 30 offers from 313 applicants for 2025 entry (9.6%). This page and the calculator cover Law (M100) alone; the two courses together had 269 offers from 2,131 applicants (12.6%).
For 2026 entry the Law Faculty reports 2,115 applicants, 630 interviewed and 252 offers across both courses together (11.9%), two of them for deferred entry in 2027.
Open applicants, who do not name a college, got offers at 6.9% over 2023 to 2025 (69 of 1,002), against 13.3% of those who did. These are raw rates, and who applies open is not random, so they do not show what applying open does to your chances.
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| Entry | Applicants | Interviewed | Offers | Offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,818 | 575 (32%) | 239 | 13.1% |
| 2024 | 1,872 | 546 (29%) | 216 | 11.5% |
| 2023 | 1,858 | 606 (33%) | 219 | 11.8% |
| 2022 | 1,806 | 545 (30%) | 203 | 11.2% |
| 2021 | 1,674 | 640 (38%) | 216 | 12.9% |
| 2020 | 1,611 | 639 (40%) | 244 | 15.1% |
| 2019 | 1,567 | 615 (39%) | 227 | 14.5% |
| 2018 | 1,541 | 589 (38%) | 233 | 15.1% |
| 2017 | 1,502 | 588 (39%) | 221 | 14.7% |
| 2016 | 1,403 | 635 (45%) | 244 | 17.4% |
| 2015 | 1,298 | 625 (48%) | 228 | 17.6% |
| 2014 | 1,262 | 606 (48%) | 208 | 16.5% |
| 2013 | 1,302 | 648 (50%) | 224 | 17.2% |
| 2012 | 1,226 | 590 (48%) | 218 | 17.8% |
| 2011 | 1,253 | 522 (42%) | 228 | 18.2% |
| 2010 | 1,189 | 533 (45%) | 220 | 18.5% |
| 2009 | 1,097 | 551 (50%) | 216 | 19.7% |
| 2008 | 1,060 | 628 (59%) | 229 | 21.6% |
| 2007 | 1,077 | 594 (55%) | 241 | 22.4% |
What LNAT score do you need for Oxford Law?
An LNAT score of about 32 gives a 1 in 3 chance of an offer, and offer holders for 2025 entry averaged 30.92 on Oxford's own Law-only figure.
Oxford publishes no pass mark for the LNAT, and has said there is no cut-off score. The score that matters here is the multiple-choice score, out of 42.
LNAT papers are not equated, and Oxford applicants' scores move a lot from year to year: the share scoring 32 or more was 0.9% in 2012 and 14.0% in 2025. So the curve below ranks each score within its own year, and a raw score from one year does not mean the same in another.
For 2025 entry, offer holders averaged about LNAT 30.7 on the multiple choice, as the calculator's curve reads it (Oxford's own Law-only figure is 30.92). Oxford's own printed figures for 2025 entry, with Law with Law Studies in Europe included, are 30.96 for offer holders against 24.5 for all applicants.
On the curve, a score of about 32 gives a 1 in 3 chance of an offer, against the 13% average; about 12%, or 1 in 8, of 2025 applicants scored that high. At 25, around the middle of the 2025 field, the estimate is about 7%. At the top of the scale it keeps rising, to about 61% at 38; for 2025 entry, 45 of the 68 applicants scoring 35 or more got an offer (66%).
Oxford's LNAT requirements, averages by year and how tutors weigh the test are in our Oxford LNAT guide.
- Interviewed
- Offered a place
Inside each year, the multiple choice does most of the sorting. For 2025 entry, 73% of offers (172 of 235) went to applicants at or above that year's 75th-percentile score of 29, and everyone below it had a 5.0% offer rate (63 of 1,264). For 2023 and 2024 the shares were 77% and 78%.
A top score is still no guarantee: for 2025 entry, 115 of the 247 applicants scoring 32 or more got an offer (46.6%) and 132 did not. From 2023 to 2025 that group's offer rate stayed between 40.0% and 46.6%, though the group grew from 10% to 14% of applicants, so a 32 is a less rare score than it was.
A low score makes an offer unlikely but not impossible. For 2025 entry, 0.5% of applicants scoring 19 or less got an offer (2 of 393) and 6.2% of those scoring 23 to 25 (18 of 290). The lowest-scoring offer holder scored 16, and 26 of the 235 offers went to applicants scoring 25 or less, out of 943.
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| LNAT score | Applicants scoring below | Interviewed | Offer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 25% | 10% | 2% |
| 22 | 34% | 15% | 3% |
| 24 | 46% | 22% | 5% |
| 26 | 56% | 31% | 9% |
| 28 | 68% | 43% | 15% |
| 30 | 79% | 57% | 24% |
| 32 | 88% | 71% | 36% |
| 34 | 95% | 83% | 48% |
| 36 | 99% | 91% | 58% |
How much does the LNAT count?
Oxford ranks Law applicants for interview on three numbers: the LNAT multiple-choice score, the LNAT essay mark and a GCSE score adjusted for school context. For 2022 and 2025 entry, the years whose reports state the weights, the three counted equally.
For 2026 entry the Faculty's report gives a different formula: 80% on the adjusted GCSE score and 10% on each LNAT score. Applicants without a GCSE score, mostly from outside the UK, are ranked on the two LNAT scores equally.
The only 2026 figures so far, the Faculty's averages, show shortlisted applicants still well above the field on the multiple choice (29.37 against 24.94, close to 2025's 29.18 against 24.5), so how far the change has shifted who is interviewed is not yet clear. We have found nothing on the weighting for 2027 entry.
Our curve comes from earlier years, so for applicants with GCSEs it may overstate how much the score matters now. For applicants without a GCSE score, who are ranked on the LNAT alone, it may understate it.
- Interviewed
- Offered a place
Under the 2024 rules, most of the sorting happens at shortlisting. For 2024 entry, 77% of applicants scoring 32 or more were interviewed, against 25% of those scoring 26 to 28 (89 of 355) and 16% of those scoring 23 to 25 (67 of 430).
The score still matters after the interview. Pooling 2023 and 2024 entry, interviewees scoring 32 or more got offers 52.9% of the time (174 of 329), against 17.6% of those scoring 25 or less (41 of 233).
The essay counts too. For 2025 entry, 39.0% of applicants with an essay mark of 67 or more got an offer (73 of 187), against 1.9% of those at 60 or below (7 of 378). Oxford marks the essay itself, and its marking changed around 2021 and 2022, so essay averages from before and after are not like for like.
The combination matters. For 2025 entry, with 32 or more on the multiple choice, 57.0% of those with an essay mark of 65 or more got an offer (77 of 135), against 15.7% of those at 62 or below (8 of 51). The two marks are only loosely related (a correlation of 0.37).
The calculator asks only for the multiple-choice score. It has no essay field, so your essay is not in the estimate.
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| LNAT score | Applicants | Interviewed | Offers | Offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 or less | 199 | 10 (5%) | 0 | 0.0% |
| 20 to 22 | 252 | 25 (10%) | 6 | 2.4% |
| 23 to 25 | 430 | 67 (16%) | 12 | 2.8% |
| 26 to 28 | 355 | 89 (25%) | 28 | 7.9% |
| 29 to 31 | 354 | 170 (48%) | 73 | 20.6% |
| 32 or more | 235 | 182 (77%) | 94 | 40.0% |
How much does the interview matter?
Law tutors give each candidate one agreed mark from 1 to 5 at each college that interviews them. The Faculty's scale reads 5 as outstanding, 4 as very good, 3 as satisfactory, 2 as weak and 1 as very weak. Data for 2017 and 2018 entry used marks out of 10, so those marks cannot be compared with these.
Candidates are normally interviewed twice at their first college, and about 1 in 4 is also seen by a second college. The figures below use the first college's mark.
Once you are interviewed, that mark lines up closely with the outcome: 97.3% of interviewees marked 5 got an offer for 2025 entry (71 of 73), against 28.2% of those marked 3 (55 of 195). The tutors who give the marks also make the decisions, so read these as past outcomes.
Only 4 of the 140 interviewees marked 1 or 2 got an offer.
Offer holders' first-college marks averaged 4.0 to 4.2 in each of 2023, 2024 and 2025 entry, and their second-college marks 3.6 to 3.7.
For 2025 entry, 134 interviewees were also seen by a second college, and 81 of them got an offer. Overall, 41.6% of interviewees got an offer (239 of 575), and second interviews are allocated after the first round and with priority for the most deprived candidates, so that rate reflects who was chosen for one.
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| First-college mark | Interviewed | Offers | Offer rate |
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| 1 (very weak) | 29 | 1 | 3.4% |
| 2 (weak) | 111 | 3 | 2.7% |
| 3 (satisfactory) | 195 | 55 | 28.2% |
| 4 (very good) | 161 | 104 | 64.6% |
| 5 (outstanding) | 73 | 71 | 97.3% |
UK and international applicants
UK applicants are more likely to get an offer: 14.5% for 2025 entry, against 12.0% for non-EU and 4.2% for EU applicants (4 offers from 95).
- Interviewed
- Offered a place
Most of the gap opens at the interview invitation. Over 2023 to 2025 entry, 34.0% of UK applicants were interviewed, against 27.3% of non-EU and 19.2% of EU applicants. Once interviewed, UK and non-EU candidates converted at similar rates: 40.2% and 36.9%.
For UK applicants the odds have fallen: UK applications rose from 813 to 1,132 between 2007 and 2025, while UK offers stayed between 142 and 203 a year, so the UK offer rate fell from 25.0% to 14.5%.
UK applicants were 62% of all applicants for 2025 entry and received 69% of the offers (164 of 239). For 2026 entry, applicants without a GCSE score, mostly from outside the UK, are ranked on their two LNAT scores, with decisions then adjusted for any school qualifications they have.
The calculator's "Outside the UK" setting pools EU and non-EU applicants, and EU applicants did worse (6.0% against 10.0% for non-EU over 2023 to 2025), so an EU estimate may be high.
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| Applying from | Applicants | Interviewed | Offers | Offer rate | 2023 to 2025 |
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| UK | 1,132 | 400 (35%) | 164 | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| Non-EU | 591 | 163 (28%) | 71 | 12.0% | 10.0% |
| EU | 95 | 12 (13%) | 4 | 4.2% | 6.0% |
State and independent schools
Among UK applicants, the gap between state and independent schools is now small. Over 2023 to 2025 entry, 13.1% of state-school applicants got an offer (356 of 2,717), against 15.8% from independent schools (90 of 571).
The gap was wider in 2007: 23.1% against 32.4%. For 2025 entry alone it was 14.0% for state and 17.0% for independent schools.
- State
- Independent
About 8 in 10 UK offers to state or independent school students go to state-school students: 356 of 446 over 2023 to 2025. Oxford's "Other" school category (247 applicants, 37 offers) is left out of these rates.
UK applicants flagged as disadvantaged got offers at least as often as others. Over 2023 to 2025, 15.4% of those eligible for free school meals got an offer (61 of 396), against 13.6% of others. The area-based flags show 14.0% to 14.4%, against 13.4% to 13.5%.
The Faculty adjusts GCSEs and LNAT scores for context, and gives the most deprived candidates priority for second interviews.
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| Entry | State | Independent |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 23.1% (137 of 594) | 32.4% (59 of 182) |
| 2023 to 2025 | 13.1% (356 of 2,717) | 15.8% (90 of 571) |
| 2025 | 14.0% (125 of 893) | 17.0% (27 of 159) |
Do GCSEs and A-levels matter?
Oxford's standard offer for Law is AAA (IB: 38 points including core with 6, 6, 6 at Higher Level; Advanced Highers AAB, or AA plus an A at Higher). No subjects are required, and Oxford says an essay subject can be helpful but is not needed.
Higher grades go with higher offer rates. Pooling 2019 to 2023 entry, applicants with exactly A*A*A* got offers 31.7% of the time (168 of 530), against 10.1% at AAA (39 of 387).
Oxford does not say whether these grades are predicted or achieved, and applicants with better grades also tend to score higher on the LNAT. Treat them as a guide.
GCSEs count at shortlisting. Pooling 2019 to 2023, applicants with 11 top grades (9, 8 or A*) got offers about 42% of the time (99 of 236 in the rows Oxford shows), and those with 10 about 36%, against about 23% with 9 and 17% with 8. Oxford hides small counts, so the true rates could differ by a few points, and with 8 or 9 top grades could be up to about 10 points higher.
Offer holders are a mixed group on grades. For 2025 entry, the most common GCSE profile among Law offer holders was 10 top grades (40 of them), and Oxford's list of the five most common A-level bands includes 3A*s and A*A*A (35 each), A*AA (27) and AAA (20).
Applicants with stronger grades also tend to score higher on the LNAT, so the calculator counts only what your grades add beyond your score.
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| Best three A-levels | Applicants | Offers | Offer rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| A*A*A* | 530 | 168 | 31.7% |
| A*A*A | 643 | 136 | 21.2% |
| A*AA | 596 | 92 | 15.4% |
| AAA | 387 | 39 | 10.1% |
| AAB | 436 | 38 | 8.7% |
| ABB | 291 | 19 | 6.5% |
Questions about Oxford Law admissions
What is the acceptance rate for Oxford Law?
About 13.1% of applicants got an offer for 2025 entry: 239 offers from 1,818 applicants. Oxford's own published acceptance rate, which counts only those who took up a place, was 10% over 2023 to 2025. For 2025 entry, about 32% of applicants were interviewed, and about 42% of those interviewed got an offer. Law with Law Studies in Europe is counted separately: 30 offers from 313 applicants, or 9.6%.
What LNAT score do I need for Oxford Law?
Oxford sets no cut-off. Our estimate reaches a 1 in 3 chance at about 32 out of 42, and 2025 offer holders averaged about 30.7 on the multiple choice. Scores run differently each year, so compare a score with its own year's field. For 2025 entry the lowest-scoring offer holder scored 16, though 26 of the 235 offers went to applicants scoring 25 or less.
How much does the LNAT count at Oxford?
For 2022 and 2025 entry, the multiple-choice score, the essay mark and a school-adjusted GCSE score counted equally in the ranking for interview. For 2026 entry the Faculty reports 80% on the GCSE score and 10% on each LNAT score. Our curve comes from earlier years, so for applicants with GCSEs it may overstate how much your score matters now; for applicants without a GCSE score, who are ranked on the LNAT alone, it may understate it. We have found nothing on the weighting for 2027 entry.
Does the LNAT essay matter for Oxford Law?
Yes. For 2025 entry, 39.0% of applicants with an essay mark of 67 or more got an offer, against 1.9% of those at 60 or below. Oxford marks the essay itself. The calculator takes no essay mark, so it is not in your estimate.
How are Oxford Law interviews marked?
Tutors give each candidate one agreed mark from 1 to 5 at each college that interviews them, where 5 is outstanding. For 2025 entry, 97.3% of interviewees marked 5 by their first college got an offer (71 of 73), against 28.2% of those marked 3. Only 4 of 140 marked 1 or 2 did.
Is it harder to get into Oxford Law from outside the UK?
Yes. For 2025 entry the offer rate was 14.5% for UK applicants, 12.0% for non-EU and 4.2% for EU applicants (4 offers from 95). The difference is mainly in who gets interviewed; once interviewed, UK and non-EU candidates converted at similar rates over 2023 to 2025.
Do I need particular A-levels for Oxford Law?
No subjects are required for Law, and the standard offer is AAA. Over 2019 to 2023 entry, applicants with exactly A*A*A* got offers 31.7% of the time, against 10.1% at AAA. Law with Law Studies in Europe is different: it needs French, German, Italian or Spanish at B2 level, tested at interview, except for the Netherlands option.
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Updated 25 October 2026 · GhostPrep is independent of the University of Oxford. Figures describe past applicants and are an estimate for planning, with no guarantee of any outcome.