Commenting on the undergraduate applicant statistics released on Wednesday 24 October, UCAS Chief Executive Mary Curnock Cook said:
'These figures for applicants to Oxford, Cambridge, medicine, veterinary and dentistry courses are encouraging. Not only are they up against last year but also on 2011. Although this is a subset of applicants for higher education at the highest levels of achievement, I remain optimistic about overall demand in the 2013 cycle.'