The Open Secret Podcast: How People Really Get Into Oxford, Cambridge, and the UK's Top Universities for Postgraduate Study

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Getting into Oxford, Cambridge, and the UK's top universities for postgraduate study can feel like there's a secret code that everyone else was handed and you weren't. There is. It's just that almost no one says it out loud! The Open Secret is the show that says it out loud. Hosted by Dr Claire Bergstrom Johnson, a Clarendon Scholar, Oxford DPhil graduate and clinical research fellow, this podcast pulls back the curtain on how people actually win places and full funding at the world's most competitive universities. And Claire knows both sides of it intimately, because before the two fully funded Oxbridge offers, she received 19 graduate rejections in total. When she finally got in, she was the same person with the same grades - just a completely different rebuilt approach. Since then, she's helped thousands of applicants across more than eighty countries, and she's read the real successful postgraduate applications almost no one els