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What the 19 schools have published about Cardiff University: applications, offers, acceptances and where leavers went, each counted separately.
The figures below come from school publications and admissions tables. We haven’t yet written an introduction to Cardiff University or checked its website; this page describes what those sources report rather than speaking for the university.
Keep source-era label; no merger or programme equivalence inferred
Where leavers went
The 2026 list is from MCS Oxford. 1 of the 20 destination mentions of Cardiff University give no count, so a mention alone doesn’t tell you how many went.
Cardiff University appears in 39 of our records from 13 schools, 2001–2026.
| What it counts | Mentions | Schools | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Destinations (where leavers went) | 20 | 9 | 2001–2026 |
| Unclear which stage this counts | 14 | 7 | 2003–2025 |
| Acceptances | 5 | 1 | 2007–2011 |
These count mentions, not pupils, so the rows don’t add up to a total and we don’t turn them into percentages. 14 mentions don’t say what they count; we list them as unclear rather than guess.
By school
| School | Mentions | Years | Newest list of where leavers went |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton College | 1 | 2011 | 2011 |
| City of London School | 2 | 2015–2023 | 2015 |
| Downe House | 1 | 2025 | No dated list |
| Harrow School | 5 | 2001 | 2001 |
| Latymer Upper School | 7 | 2018–2021 | 2019 |
| Magdalen College School | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
| North London Collegiate School | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 |
| Radley College | 3 | 2003–2007 | No dated list |
| St Mary’s School Ascot | 1 | 2018 | No dated list |
| St Paul’s Girls’ School | 4 | 2016–2020 | 2020 |
| St Paul’s School | 5 | 2016–2023 | 2023 |
| Wellington College | 5 | 2007–2011 | No dated list |
| Wycombe Abbey | 2 | No single year | No dated list |
An offer may come with conditions; a destination tells you where a leaver actually went. Schools publish different amounts of detail, and their lists can overlap. That makes these figures useful for following a school’s history, but unsuitable for ranking feeder schools.
Questions
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.
Read the answer: Why do published Oxford totals differ?