Editing Oxbridge (section)

==Criticism==
[[File:Eton_College.jpg|thumb|[[Eton College]] is one of a number of schools that send a disproportionately large percentage of students to Oxbridge.<ref>{{cite web|date=2018-12-07|title=Eton and Westminster among eight schools dominating Oxbridge|url=http://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/07/eton-and-westminster-among-eight-schools-dominating-oxbridge|access-date=2021-12-15|website=The Guardian}}</ref>]]
The word ''Oxbridge'' may also be used pejoratively: as a descriptor of [[social class]] (referring to the professional classes who dominated the intake of both universities at the beginning of the twentieth century),<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert David Anderson |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-820660-6 |title=European universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sf6NeT3045IC&pg=PA135 |page=135 |access-date=2009-03-22}}</ref> as shorthand for an [[Elite#Educational elite|elite]] that "continues to dominate Britain's political and cultural establishment"<ref name="guardian_20080316_1" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Oxbridge Blues|newspaper=The Guardian|url=http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/carole_cadwalladr/2008/03/oxbridge_blues.html|author=Carole Cadwalladr|date=16 March 2008}}</ref> and a parental attitude that "continues to see UK higher education through an Oxbridge prism",<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/jan/20/oxbridgeandelitism.schools |title=Down but not out |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |author=Eric Thomas |author-link=Eric Thomas (academic) |date=20 January 2004 |access-date=2009-08-28 | location=London}}</ref> or to describe a "pressure-cooker" culture that attracts and then fails to support overachievers "who are vulnerable to a kind of self-inflicted stress that can all too often become unbearable"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/elizabeth-davies-the-overpressured-hothouse-that-is-oxbridge-437155.html |work=[[The Independent]] |title=The over-pressured hothouse that is Oxbridge |quote=Two recent deaths have brought the issue of Oxbridge students' mental health back to the surface |date=21 February 2007 |access-date=2009-02-02 |author=Elizabeth Davies |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207064542/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/elizabeth-davies-the-overpressured-hothouse-that-is-oxbridge-437155.html |archive-date=7 February 2009}}</ref> and high-flying state school students who find "coping with the workload very difficult in terms of balancing work and life" and "feel socially out of [their] depth".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_/ai_n17191156 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207084117/http://findarticles.com:80/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200612/ai_n17191156/pg_1 |archive-date=2009-02-07 |magazine=[[The Spectator]] |date=2 December 2006 |author=Charlie Boss |title=Why so many state school pupils drop out of Oxbridge |access-date=2024-01-20 |via=[[BNET|Bnet Business Network]]}}{{void|Fabrickator|comment|this is best available version on wayback, at least the link to the second portion of the article works}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The [[Sutton Trust]] maintains that the [[University of Oxford]] and the [[University of Cambridge]] "recruit" disproportionately from eight schools ([[Westminster School]], [[Eton College]], [[Hills Road Sixth Form College]], [[St Paul's School, London|St Paul's School]], [[Peter Symonds College]], [[St Paul's Girls' School]], [[King's College School]], and [[Magdalen College School, Oxford|Magdalen College School]]).<ref>{{cite news|date=2018-12-07|title=Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools'|language=en-GB|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46470838|access-date=2020-10-24}}</ref> They examined published admissions data from 2015 to 2017 and found that, out of the 19,851 places during the three years, the eight schools accounted for 1,310, whereas 2,900 other schools with historically few admissions to Oxbridge accounted for 1,220.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46470838|title=Oxbridge 'over-recruits from eight schools'|publisher=[[BBC News]]|first=Sean |last=Coughlan|year=2018 |access-date=1 March 2009}}</ref>