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Mention that in your personal statement.

For them extra credits.

Yes. But filled with the riff raff from the poly up the road

Are you talking about how about 30% go to another university to do the clinical years? Since I highly doubt Oxford would kick out 30% of the medics they recruited

Perhaps. A friend of my sister is a 2nd year medic, and according to her (the medic) the bottom 30% of people are removed from Oxford after second year exams before they can begin their third.

It is also possible that my sister misunderstood and relayed incorrect information onto me, which is why I ask here because it does seem difficult to believe

Perhaps. A friend of my sister is a 2nd year medic, and according to her (the medic) the bottom 30% of people are removed from Oxford after second year exams before they can begin their third.

It is also possible that my sister misunderstood and relayed incorrect information onto me, which is why I ask here because it does seem difficult to believe

Perhaps. A friend of my sister is a 2nd year medic, and according to her (the medic) the bottom 30% of people are removed from Oxford after second year exams before they can begin their third.

It is also possible that my sister misunderstood and relayed incorrect information onto me, which is why I ask here because it does seem difficult to believe

Not a chance that this is right - the completion rate in the 3-year Medicine BA (pre-clinical) is well over 90%, like all of Oxford's courses. My money would be on the 30% referring to the fact that it is after the second year exams that people apply for the clinical stage of the full medical degree, which are years 4-6. The Oxford clinical school doesn't automatically admit everyone that is registered for pre-clinical medicine. People who don't progress to clinical study in Oxford (about 30% is plausible) end up doing clinical study in London - some actively choose it. Cambridge used to be an option but I think they've recently decided to stop participating.

Perhaps. A friend of my sister is a 2nd year medic, and according to her (the medic) the bottom 30% of people are removed from Oxford after second year exams before they can begin their third.

It is also possible that my sister misunderstood and relayed incorrect information onto me, which is why I ask here because it does seem difficult to believe

Perhaps one should add, the reason why not everyone can do the clinical stage in Oxford is that there aren't enough ill people in Oxford. The John Radcliffe is a district general hospital for a relatively small city with a relatively young population. It isn't a big enough hospital to absorb more clinical med students.

The JR and Addenbrookes used to exchange some students with, I think, no net gains either way but Cambridge has called that off.

Could someone please tell me how Oxford balls work? Is it just music + alcohol + fancy dresses? Do people attend those a lot?

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Just think of it like going to dinner with a few mates and having some drinks afterwards, but paying up front. That way £100 or whatever seems pretty normal.

going into third year, i didn't think i could still be taken aback by things other Oxford students describe as "normal", but there you go

Just think of it like going to dinner with a few mates and having some drinks afterwards, but paying up front. That way £100 or whatever seems pretty normal.

Oh dear, might've expressed myself wrong. What I mean by 'pretty normal' is 'something which isn't absurdly extravagant given the frequency with which such events occur'. Obviously it's not the sort of thing you do every day but at the same time it isn't something that only the super-rich can do at Oxford.

Could someone please tell me how Oxford balls work? Is it just music + alcohol + fancy dresses? Do people attend those a lot?

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yeah I get what you mean, but I do the dinner and drinks thing fairly often during term with my chums (who are picky) and i've never come close to dropping £100 on a single night

paying £100 for a ball ticket then more £££ for clothes etc still doesn't really register as normal to me tbh and i think a lot of students do feel this way though there is a lot of peer pressure wrt balls especially as they are portrayed somehow as an essential part of The Oxford Experience....