Delta research
Each briefing takes a single course or a single question, sets out the evidence behind it, and says plainly what that evidence does and does not support.
Publication programmePapers below have been produced and circulated privately. Public editions will be posted here as they are released. Until then a copy can be requested.
Ninety-one per cent of applicants reached interview, so almost the whole decision rested on the language tests and the interview, where placed candidates led the shortlisted field by roughly five to eight marks.
Request the paperPerformance recordings and written work are marked by faculty assessors and passed to interviewers, but they carry no weight at shortlisting, where 86 per cent of the field advanced.
Request the paperOffer holders declared 5.71 grade 9s on average against 4.97 for those not offered, a real separation but a narrow one, and A*AA behaved as a floor rather than as a signal of strength.
Request the paperPublication standard
A briefing is worth publishing when a reader can follow it back to the evidence and disagree with it on the evidence.
Every substantive figure keeps a clear route back to the institution or dataset that published it, and the cycle it describes.
Published fact, derived analysis, and interpretation stay explicitly separate, and uncertainty is stated rather than implied.
Each paper closes by saying what the finding changes for a student, an adviser, or a school, and what it does not change.