Oxbridge Admissions Club

Why I kept my rejected applications…

Comment “TOOLKIT” below and I’ll send you my entire Application Accelerator Toolkit, filled with the successful examples and insider guidance that have helped over 50% of my students get accepted to their dream Master’s and PhDs! 👇

(PS - do you notice how a lot of these mistakes are based on what they tell you to do for a successful undergraduate application? I learned the hard way that undergraduate and postgraduate applications are REALLY different when it comes to what committees are looking for! That’s why learning from someone’s who done this successfully before was invaluable)

If you got rejected this cycle, this is the plan I’d follow if I were starting over right now with a December deadline in my sights 👇

Everything you need to do each step of it properly is in my Toolkit, including my personal statement playbook, supervisor outreach scripts, recommendation letter strategies, and much, much more!

Over 50% of my students have used it to get accepted to their dream Masters or PhD 🤩

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Kind of a vulnerable post today!

I built my Scholarship Database because of a specific kind of 1am - laptop open, seven tabs of fragmented funding sources, a manually-built spreadsheet, and the slow sinking realisation that I was about to spend hundreds of hours of my life searching for money that someone, somewhere, actively wanted to give me. 🫠

I did win my funding eventually. But I haven’t forgotten what those nights felt like!

This Database is what I wish I’d had then. It contains 300+ curated postgraduate scholarships, one searchable workspace, and my special notes on extra eligibility criteria that will increase your chances of winning the scholarship.

Comment “DATABASE” below and I’ll send you the link to it!👇

Most rejected research proposals fail in the first paragraph…

Most funded ones earn the offer in the first paragraph.

This is the difference!

Save this carousel for when you sit down to draft yours, and if you want my Research Proposal Power-Pack (with the actual proposal that won me my fully funded Cambridge DTP, plus many more winning examples across the sciences and humanities)…

Comment “PROPOSAL” and I’ll DM it to you!👇

I got 20 rejections before getting accepted to both Oxford & Cambridge with full funding, here’s exactly what changed ✨

Sharing this because I get DMs every week from brilliant applicants sitting inside their first rejection cycle, usually half-convinced they don’t belong here! Please read this if that’s where you are. The cycle is not the verdict! 🫶

If you want everything I learned between round one and round 2, my Toolkit is exactly that - the personal statement strategies, the templates, the supervisor outreach playbook, the recommendation letter approach and so much more!! Comment “TOOLKIT” below and I’ll send you the link 👇

Nobody hands you the unwritten rules when you decide to apply to Oxford or Cambridge.

You’re just expected to figure them out - or already know someone who has.

Most applicants don’t find out these things until after a rejection (or several).

I found out the hard way too, which is exactly why I talk about them so openly now!

The application is a learnable skill. It just helps enormously to learn from someone who’s already been through it.

(And even more so, someone who knows not just what DOES work, but also what DOESN’T work - and WHY!)

That’s the whole reason Oxbridge Admissions Club exists.

Which slide hit closest to home? Tell me below 👇

I’ll never forget the moment this clicked for me after years of rejection. 🤯

It was literally the only thing that actually changed between my 10+ rejections and a fully funded Oxford offer (besides a little more experience).

Comment “SHIFT” below and I’ll send you the whole thing - warning: it’s a lot, but it’ll be so worth it 👇

There’s something a lot of the most successful and resilient patients I see now in the rare disease community say about their diagnosis -

How it’s easy to think “look at all these horrible things this disease has done to me.”

But instead, they tend to stand back and say, “look at all the amazing things that have happened BECAUSE of this disease!” (Like my friend Clive at )

More than one person has acted impressed that I’ve made her disease the focus of my entire career, because I could sit here and just be hella resentful towards her for “ruining” our childhood (lol, as if it was her childhood 😅)

Though it’s caused me multiple emotional scars I’ve admittedly carried well into adulthood (and I still battle with), I’ve always preferred to look at Maegan’s and my story the same way as she and the community tend to:

Maegan is the best thing that ever happened to my career, and probably to me generally.

It’s given me so many challenges and opportunities to fight for others and become a better, stronger human in the process.

It’s shaped who I am fundamentally as a person: when I see people in need of help, and know that I’m in the position to help them, I can’t NOT help. It’s genuinely a compulsion!

(Which is why it actually makes COMPLETE sense that I started Oxbridge Admissions Club. 😅)

She’d probably find that equal parts hilarious and heart-warming. 💙

I just know that one of these was yours too. And that’s exactly why I chose to post it. 💛

10 rejections, then 2 fully funded offers, then over £1 million in grants & fellowships 😭

In all seriousness, none of that happened because I suddenly got smarter or more impressive between round one and round two.

It happened because I finally understood how Oxbridge postgraduate admissions ACTUALLY works.

And then I did the specific things that work, in the right order, with the right framing.

I’ve put all of it, including real successful applications from real admits - into my Application Accelerator Toolkit for Master’s & PhD applicants.

Comment “TOOLKIT” below if you want me to send it to you! 👇