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"A 19-year-old university applicant has sent a &amp;#039;rejection letter&amp;#039; to Oxford. Elly Nowell from Winchester, who recently attended an interview at Magdalen College, said that the experience left her feeling like &amp;quot;the only atheist in a gigantic monastery&amp;quot;. In the letter, Nowell parodied the university&amp;#039;s own rejection letters, telling the institution that it &amp;quot;did not quite meet the standard&amp;quot; of other universities she had visited.  She wrote: &amp;quot;I have now considered your establishment as a place to read Law (Jurisprudence). I very much regret to inform you that I will be withdrawing my application. &amp;quot;I realise you may be disappointed by this decision, but you were in competition with many fantastic universities and following your interview I am afraid you do not quite meet the standard of the universities I will be considering.&amp;quot; Nowell gave the university an option to &amp;quot;reapply&amp;quot;, adding: &amp;quot;While you may believe your decision to hold interviews in grand formal settings is inspiring, it allows public school applicants to flourish... and intimidates state school applicants, distorting the academic potential of both.&amp;quot;  She then went on to criticise Magdalen College&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;traditions and rituals&amp;quot;, as well as the gap between &amp;quot;minorities and white middle class students&amp;quot;. Nowell, who now hopes to be accepted to University College London, told the BBC: &amp;quot;It was while I was at interview that I finally noticed that subjecting myself to the judgement of an institution which I fundamentally disagreed with was bizarre. I spent my entire time there laughing at how seriously everything was being taken.&amp;quot; A spokesperson for Oxford said: &amp;quot;Of the 10,000 interviews that we conduct over the course of the admissions period, it is a very low number [that complains].&amp;quot; &amp;gt; University blasted for live sex show in class &amp;gt; 99-year-old enrols at university "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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