Masters Requirements?

Hi all, I am a 2nd year student from a London target school (Imperial/UCL/LSE) looking to do a 1 year masters degree at Oxbridge. Currently thinking Cambridge MPhil Finance / MSc Real Estate Finance and Oxford MFE / MSc Computational Finance.

My question is, what grades will give me good chances?

I currently have firsts in all my modules, and plan on keeping it this way. However, I only place in the top ~30%/35% of my cohort.

Cambridge explicitly requires international students (from non-UK unis) to be in the top 10% of their reference group.

Of course being at the top in a competitive Uni is harder than at an average one. So my question is: will not being in the top 10% from a very selective school (acceptance rate on my course is 8%) make me a uncompetitive applicant?

Would appreciate some opinions on this.

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