Oxbridge Admissions: Names and Numbers
In the previous piece we explained how to read a list of admissions results: look for the sums, watch the geography, tell a loud name from the right university. Now — our own list. Read it by the same rules; we won't smo
In the previous piece we explained how to read a list of admissions results: look for the sums, watch the geography, tell a loud name from the right university. Now — our own list. Read it by the same rules; we won't smooth anything over.
And the caveat any such text should open with: below are offers, that is, invitations to enrol. Each graduate will study at one university, and a strong graduate always holds several offers. Why the system works this way we've already discussed.
And one more thing, to keep the reading honest: everything below is for a single graduating class — 2026 (the 2025/26 admissions cycle). It is a snapshot of one season, not the school's cumulative record across the years.
The sums first
A scholarship is the one line impossible to inflate: it is a financial decision by an admissions committee with no reason to pay a school from Tashkent a compliment. In this cohort, scholarships went to seven of our graduates:
- Antonina Ten — University of California, Santa Cruz: $40,000 (plus £2,000 from the University of Leeds)
- Rafa Nareswari — University of Toronto: $60,000; Hong Kong Polytechnic University: full tuition
- Bobur Kayumov — Iowa State University: $48,000
- Milana Normukhamedova — University of Glasgow: £10,000 (plus 20% from Middlesex University Dubai)
- Farikha Khidoyatova — University of Birmingham Dubai: AED 269,844
- Doniyor Eshonkhujayev — University of Leeds: £6,000
- Elbek Alimov — American University of Technology (Arizona State University): 30% of tuition
Each of these figures says the same thing in different currencies: a university looked at a child from Tashkent and decided it was willing to pay for them.
The right university, not just the loud one
Overall rankings only work inside academic disciplines — beyond that, a profession begins. This cohort holds admissions that won't impress anyone scrolling QS from the top down, and those are the ones we're proudest of:
- Maryam Demyanova — Gobelins Paris, the number-one animation school in the world. For a future animator, a bigger win than Oxford.
- Bekhruz Rashidov — Les Roches, second in the world for hospitality management.
- Ikram Yusupov — aerospace engineering: University of Edinburgh, King's College London, Queen Mary University of London.
- Mayuri Kuzminova — industrial design at Eindhoven University of Technology, the engineering capital of the Netherlands.
- Regina Imamalieva — a Pre-Med track in the US, The College of New Jersey: the long road to medicine, begun the right way.
Such trajectories don't appear in the final year. Animation, aerospace, medicine — these are profiles grown over years, and each of them once began with a "who do you want to be" conversation, asked in good time.
Geography
Seventeen graduates — ten countries across three continents: the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, China, the UAE, Turkey. Behind each country is its own application algorithm: the Dutch system is nothing like the British; the American demands essays and a portfolio; the Hong Kong one lives by its own calendar. When the children of one school scatter this widely, it isn't luck — it means they were guided through several systems in parallel. And why the same school grades are read in Toronto, Hong Kong and Amsterdam alike — the first piece in this series.
The whole list — not just the showcase
We ourselves advised asking a school about the middle of the class, so we publish not a selection of the best but everyone we spoke about this season:
| Graduate | Field | Offers |
|---|---|---|
| Regina Imamalieva | Pre-Med | The College of New Jersey (US) |
| Mayuri Elizaveta Kuzminov | Industrial Design | Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) |
| Arina Sereda | — | KU Leuven, University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Laylo Nigmatova | Marketing & Business | University of Wollongong in Dubai, Heriot-Watt University, Özyeğin University, Middlesex University Dubai, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| David Kokora | Economics, Finance & Global Law | University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University, University of Nottingham, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| Antonina Ten | — | UC Santa Cruz ($40,000), University of Leeds (£2,000), University of Nottingham, University of Exeter, University of Essex, Royal Holloway |
| Elbek Alimov | Business & Technology | American University of Technology / ASU (30%) |
| Ikram Yusupov | Aerospace Engineering | University of Edinburgh, King's College London, Queen Mary University of London |
| Bekhruz Rashidov | Hospitality | Les Roches (#2 QS Hospitality) |
| Nikita Podyalyuk | Business Management | Penn State, Arizona State, Rutgers, Pace University (US) |
| Farikha Khidoyatova | Business Management | University of Birmingham, Birmingham Dubai (AED 269,844), University of Nottingham, University of Exeter, Queen Mary, Heriot-Watt, University of York |
| Jonathon Yang | Business Administration | York University (Canada) |
| Rafa Rasikha Nareswari | — | University of Hong Kong, University of Toronto ($60,000), HK Polytechnic (100%), University of Alberta, CUHK, City University of Hong Kong, Erasmus Rotterdam |
| Maryam Demyanova | Animation & Digital Arts | Gobelins Paris (#1 in the world), UWE Bristol, University of Hertfordshire |
| Milana Normukhamedova | AI & Computer Science | University of Glasgow (£10,000), Birmingham, Leeds, Southampton, Durham, Twente, Wollongong, Heriot-Watt, Middlesex Dubai (20%) |
| Bobur Kayumov | Economics & Finance | University of Manchester, King's College London, Bristol, Iowa State ($48,000), Michigan State, Penn State, Purdue |
| Doniyor Eshonkhujayev | Finance | University of Exeter, University of Leeds (£6,000), Queen Mary, Liverpool, Essex |
What stands behind the table
Every row had one thing in common: at the end of school, several acceptances lay on the child's desk, and they chose for themselves — the country, the profession, their own future life. None of them bent a dream to fit the shape of a certificate.
If you're reading this table through the eyes of a parent of a seven-year-old — come to us with those same five questions, including the one about the middle of the class. We'll have something to answer.
