Why do published Oxford totals differ?
Because they count different things, and need not count the same people, even when they carry the same year. Applications, offers and acceptances belong to an admissions round, while a school’s own list of where its leavers went is a record of a leaving year. So anyone puzzling over an Oxford total should ask what it counts, and which year it means, before setting it beside another.
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