I'm not saying that CTC's selection is better than Oxford's, I'm simply saying that we are not comparing apples with apples. Oxford will have far fewer aplicants for the APP course simply because the applicants are expected to have their funding already in place. The funding required is huge; very few people are going to be in a position to apply for this course.
CTC offers the funding as a result of selection, even though it is still in the form of a loan. Most of CTC's students will be pretty much guaranteed a job with one of the contract sponsoring airlines. Therefore CTC will have a vastly greater number of applicants to whittle down to a manageable number.
Scroggs