With this year’s UCAS application process now completed, the Upper Sixth are receiving a variety of offers from their chosen universities.

72 students have applied for university this year. This includes 64 students from the current Upper Sixth cohort and 8 students who are in their gap year and applied during this cycle. Just over 91% of our current Year 13 cohort have applied for a place at university this year. Over half of the applicants have already received all of their decisions, with all of the remaining applicants having heard back from at least one of their choices.

67 students (93% of those in this year’s cycle) have applied to a Russell Group university with 53 (79%) having so far received at least one Russell Group offer.

We are also delighted to announce that 5 students have received offers for Oxbridge courses (four University of Oxford offers and one University of Cambridge). This year-on-year increase in places goes somewhat against the grain with regard to the publicised reduction in Oxbridge places offered to independent school pupils in 2021.

Students have continued to choose wide-ranging courses from Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience to Speech and Language Therapy, Accountancy and Finance to Anthropology with Innovation and all manner of subjects in between.

This year’s Lower Sixth students are already looking at destinations, courses and subject combinations for 2022. With over 50,000 undergraduate courses available in the UK alone, we encourage the students to look beyond the most popular courses and institutions and spread their choices to find a course, subject and location that will truly allow them to flourish, as they venture beyond BGS.

The Bridge team said: “We have been incredibly impressed with how this year’s Upper Sixth have coped; managing the demands of their university applications amidst all of the uncertainty over the arrangements for the end of the school year, the ongoing impact of the pandemic and the added challenges of learning from home. It is heartening to see their achievements to date and we are delighted that they are now reaping the rewards from their hard work.”