Student writes rejection letter to Oxford University
Elly Nowell, 19, of Winchester, wrote the tongue-in-cheek missive as a response to being at an interview and feeling "that subjecting myself to the judgement of an institution which I fundamentally disagreed with was bizarre."
Academics at the college, which celebrates its 564th birthday this year, were quick to dismiss the rejection, stating that ""Of the 10,000 interviews that we conduct over the course of the admissions period it is a very low number."
Nowell's letter follows on from last year's famous rejection of Cambridge University by Franklyn Addo, the Hackney-based teenager who opted for LSE over Cambridge - believed in some quarters to have been over the 'lack of a rap scene' - but later to have been confirmed as a desire to remain in the capital.
Regardless, this latest incident comes as a blow to the Oxbridge insitutions desperate to shake off an elitist image. Nowell now hopes to study at University College, London.
