Slightly unusual case!

My son left school at 16 as he was offered a football professional contract with a championship club. He also plays for Wales at u19.

He was at a (good) state school until 16, but missed one day a week for football on day release. He was selected to play in the u19 Euros - so 2 qualifying rounds and the finals round - all 3 weeks out of school at a time. The finals coincided with his GCSE exams so he sat most of them in a hotel in Cyprus! He did well considering 999999875 (5 was PE as he missed the coursework deadline- don’t ask!) He sat some of them straight after a game..

Football scholarships normally do a level 3 BTEC. We advocated (fought) hard for him and asked the club to support A levels with a tutor. First time they have done A levels in 20 years. So he did maths and economics in his one day off a week, plus BTEC level 1 and the other compulsory (pointless) education which all football scholars had to do.

He got AA. He was on for A* but had a couple of disasters, one was a career threatening ACL injury which required an operation and long rehab. He was very down. He was just starting to get time with the 1st team and make his championship debut. There was another issue in the middle of exams which I won’t go into now but will be relevant.

This year he is doing further maths with a tutor in the evenings alongside full time football. All issues resolved so should be online for A* if continues how he has started. He’s very committed now.

Would Oxford PPE even look at him with this very unusual route, taking 3 A levels over 4 years alongside a full time job as a footballer. If he gets an A* and does well in TARA?? Is it worth contacting some colleges for advice?

I know of one example of a similar case, Han Willhoft-King who did 3 A levels over 4 years and is doing Law at Brasenose after he got fed up with football. Otherwise professional footballers don’t really go to uni…

Football is still the plan at the moment, and he is back training with the first team post injury and doing well. But he is getting FOMO from his friends at uni and is wondering about a different route… He would be applying to start at 21.

Grateful for any advice and insight. I was at Cambridge 30+ years ago and husband at Oxford but very different then.

I scored a 1510 on the SAT, but I took the test five times in total. When completing my UCAS application, I entered only my highest score because I wasn’t aware that Oxford required all SAT sittings to be disclosed.

My school has no experience with Oxbridge applications, so I unfortunately overlooked this requirement.

I’ve drafted an email to Oxford’s Undergraduate Admissions Team explaining the oversight and listing all five of my SAT scores. However, I’m unsure whether I should also submit the UCAS Qualification Amendment Form to add the missing scores to my application, or whether emailing Oxford directly with my complete testing history would be sufficient (since no other schools require this).

can someone send countdown timer for deadline of application?

Does anyone know which section(s) will matter the most in the admissions test? I feel as though I had very good Writing Task and CT sections, but not so for the PS.