Congratulations to our Upper Sixth students on an impressive range of offers from UK, US and international universities.
UK universities
To date, our students have received an impressive total of 770 offers from UK universities including Exeter (74), UCL (68), KCL (68), Durham (65), Warwick (54), Edinburgh (53), Bristol (38), Bath (37), Imperial (26) and Manchester (26).
In total, 25 Sevenoaks students received offers from Oxford and Cambridge, with 11 students receiving an offer from Oxford and 14 receiving an offer from Cambridge.
US universities
US universities continue to be an increasingly popular choice for Sennockians, with 65 applying to a range of colleges this year, including the Ivy League, Liberal Arts colleges, private research universities and public universities.
Our students received 11 offers to Ivy League schools including Brown, Columbia (2), Cornell, Dartmouth (2), Harvard University (2), University of Pennsylvania (2) and Yale University.
Other highlights include highly coveted offers from a wide range of other top universities including University of Chicago (4), Duke University (3), Johns Hopkins University (2), Northwestern University (3), and Stanford University (2).
Top Liberal Arts Colleges also featured, with students earning places at Barnard College, Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, Wesleyan University, Williams College (2).
Some students received multiple offers. These offers are particularly impressive given the number of applications received by US universities. For example:
- Brown received 42,765 applications this year and made around 2400 offers, an admit rate of 5.7%.
- Duke received over 59,000 applications and their admit rate was 4% this year.
- The University of Southern California received 83,500 applications and made 8700 offers, an admit rate of around 10%.
Offers were also received from Barry University, Bates College (2), Boston College, Boston University, Carleton College, Carnegie Mellon University (2), Case Western Reserve University (5), Colgate University, Davidson College, Embry Riddle, Emory University (5), Fordham University (4), George Washington University (2), Georgetown University, Georgia Institute of Technology (2), Hamilton College, Harvard University (2), Ithaca College, Marymount Manhattan College, Middlebury College (2), New York University (4), Northeastern University (6), Oberlin College, Ohio State University, Columbus (2), Pennsylvania State University, University Park (2), Purdue University, West Lafayette (2), Rochester Institute of Technology, Santa Clara University, Smith College, Tufts University (2), UC Berkeley (4), UC Davis (7), UC Irvine (6), UCLA (5), UC Riverside, UC San Diego (13), UC Santa Barbara (3), University of Colorado Boulder (2), University of Georgia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2), University of Massachusetts, Amherst (3), University of Michigan (4), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (4), USC (9), University of Texas at Austin, University of Virginia (3), University of Washington (Seattle), University of Wisconsin (Madison), Washington University in St. Louis (2), and Vanderbilt University.
Other international destinations
Internationally, Sevenoaks students have received from McGill and the University of Toronto, and from European universities, including: Spain (IE); Italy (Polytechnic University of Milan and Bocconi); France (Atelier de Sèvres Art School); Lithuania (Vilnius); and Hong Kong (Hong Kong University).
Students have also been offered places on cross-country and continent dual and triple degrees including the dual degree between Bocconi, Italy with HEC, France; the dual degree between Columbia University, US and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; and the World Bachelor in Business Programme with Bocconi, Italy, the University of Southern California, US and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Our students have also made applications to Australia and Ireland, and with outcomes yet to be announced.
The Higher Education department
The IB Diploma continues to be the gold standard preparation for university, the workplace and beyond. The school is committed to ensuring that each student applies to the course and university that is the most suitable fit for them. Our Higher Education programme aims to support students navigating their post-18 options. Some students who want to combine paid work with study may also want to consider the sought-after degree apprenticeship route, either instead of, or alongside university applications.
Various factors have increased the level of competition amongst students with top grades. We expect the level of competition to continue to be very high for the 2026 university entry cycle.
We look forward to sharing further offers from the UK and around the world as the application cycle progresses.
