A weird post from mumsneedwine. And misleading. I was clear to mention entry requirements. Bristol does an awful lot of contextualisation. Its entry requirements, including for medicine when DD applied, were lower than elsewhere. (They have since changed their approach meaning DD and many of her friends would not get in if applying now.) I perfectly accept that vetmed is different. It is only offered by about four/five places so getting a place anywhere is an achievement. This is not true of most subjects.
Entry requirements are worth having a glance at, as is the average score on entry, which can be found on the Complete University Guide tables. One thing that put DS off Bristol was that their contextual A level maths requirement was quite low, and they were not offering a summer school catch up. He was predicted A in FM and wanted a course where he would not have to repeat too much. Hence, if he had had a choice he would have gone for Warwick which had been looking for an A in maths, rather than a B.
Again fit. Sort out what is important to you, and then look to see what each University offers.
I also agree with spacehardware. Bristol has one of the only two medical ethics departments in the country. Unlike Oxford, it is heavily tilted towards the US approach to gender medicine, hosting conferences and the like. The law department also contains its share of US influenced teachers, pushing the barriers in a UK context.
It was a problem for one of DDs peers who was interested in ethics as an intercalation but Oxford does not take external students and though they personally were more interested in disability/mental health rather than gender issues, they were put off by the composition of the Bristol department.
The Jewish thing is real. DD is appalled by some of the stuff she sees on messaging groups, and I know has stuck her head out once or twice to point out something that is unacceptable. (And been "punished" for doing so.) But, like the GC thing, it is difficult. I can understand some of the overseas students not understanding that the UK is, or should be, welcoming to people of all creeds, and I think it would be useful if there were some introductory briefing covering what behaviours are, or are not accepted. (Actually the same would have been useful when I was at University and the only Brit and the only woman on my course.) But actually the problem is far from confined to overseas students. Its like the left of the Labour party. The only think allowed appears to be group think. Not good if you are a woman, Jewish, if you play a lot of sport, or indeed if you don't fit.
Looking back at the posts mumsneedwine repeatedly mentions private or boarding schools as if they are the cause of any problems. Mine only went private because they did not get into a grammar or a selective state school, and we did not want to move, gain religion, or do what most people did and rent in a different catchment. Unfortunately our catchment school, with 93% FSM really could not offer the sort of academic stretch we wanted our children to have. I find the private=rich=posh=entitled=dim MN tropes tedious. Some may be, but there are also plenty of parents who struggle to find the fees in order to do their best for their DC.