Applied on the 13th - deadline day - and got invite to Day 1 assessment at Oxford on 19th. There were many interview slots for this week and second week of January but now there's only 9 Jan available.
Contemplating whether or not to find the £250, as I'm pretty certain I won't even make it into the top elite of COMPASS scores.
Diffusion- you don't know if you will be in the in the top elite of test scores, no-one does. Compared to what you will have to pay for the course, this is negligible and would be more than happy to pay it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain from doing it as it would at least give you invaluable practice for future applications.Go for it!