The Oxford UNIQ Summer Schools Thread

Reply 40

lekky

19

Oh I wish I knew about this last year :frown:

Reply 41

airey_head

micky022

I don't know, but something tells me no. I'm sure I read somewhere that it's for state schools, since private schools are more privileged anyways with regards to universities. I could be wrong, you'd have to check at www.ox.ac.uk/uniq

no no no you're absolutely right. I got an e-mail from Oxford University themselves confirming this. I am so annoyed - private schools are clearly NOT priviledged if their university applicants can't get the same benefits that state schools are getting. :mad:

What happened to Oxbridge treating everyone equally. God, some universities are so full of it! haha

Reply 42

SelfishGiant

8

airey_head

no no no you're absolutely right. I got an e-mail from Oxford University themselves confirming this. I am so annoyed - private schools are clearly NOT priviledged if their university applicants can't get the same benefits that state schools are getting. :mad:

What happened to Oxbridge treating everyone equally. God, some universities are so full of it! haha

Well, to be honest, a great deal of the programme is to give pupils an experience of university life they may not get otherwise - I, for instance, don't know any adults who went straight from school to uni.

Public schools are also much less prepared to submit pupils to Oxbridge, and even the very few that apply, state schools have little to offer in terms of support/help for interviews or testing.

Reply 43

lekky

19

airey_head

no no no you're absolutely right. I got an e-mail from Oxford University themselves confirming this. I am so annoyed - private schools are clearly NOT priviledged if their university applicants can't get the same benefits that state schools are getting. :mad:

What happened to Oxbridge treating everyone equally. God, some universities are so full of it! haha

Riiighhht yes clearly you're the one at the disadvantage. :rolleyes:

Reply 44

username381250

16

I'm applying for Law and History :smile:

Reply 45

SelfishGiant

8

Are all your personal statements the same as a proper personal statement would be?

Reply 46

Revolution is my Name

15

My Statement's still 400 characters over the limit. I might just remove all the spaces, and submit that.

Reply 47

Marisa_Grace

13

micky022

Mine was about 800 under or something. 'I love Law. Yeah, err, that's it. Did I do good?'

I wish I had that many words left :tongue:

. Mine is about 4 under, and even that basically cut out loads of stuff and all the nice touches to it. I'm really displeased with it now :s.

Reply 48

username381250

16

micky022

So am I

I need to get going on my personal statement soon :o:

Reply 49

Orwell

3

Anyone who applied for English Lit, what sort of stuff did you put on your application?

Reply 50

SelfishGiant

8

Orwell

Anyone who applied for English Lit, what sort of stuff did you put on your application?

I was about to ask the same thing, to be honest.

Reply 51

me(:

Anyone else going to apply for maths?? :o:

Reply 52

username381250

16

me(:

Anyone else going to apply for maths?? :o:

I've never even contemplated it. :p:

Reply 53

me(:

Bossa Nova

I've never even contemplated it. :p:

me(:

Revolution is my Name

15

me(:

Anyone else going to apply for maths?? :o:

I might put it as my reserve. Or probably just leave the reserve blank, actually.

Reply 56

goodboy4444

1

has anybody applied for biology????????????or biochemistry??????

Reply 57

walesisthebest

goodboy4444

has anybody applied for biology????????????or biochemistry??????

I am going to apply! What did you get at gcse and what sort of things did you put in your personal statement?

Reply 58

goodboy4444

1

walesisthebest

I am going to apply! What did you get at gcse and what sort of things did you put in your personal statement?

I am an international student ,studying in a uk state school.i did my GCSE equivalent exams in india and got these grades

BIOLOGY-A*
CHEMISTRY-A*
PHYSICS-A*
HISTORY-A
GEOGRAPHY-A*
CIVICS-A*
ECONOMICS-A*
MATHS-B
ENGLISH-B
SANSKRIT-B

currently i am doing Biology,Chemistry,Economics and Maths at AS level.

In your P.S just write y do you want to go to summer school and y have u applied to this course and DO NOT mention about your extra activities as you only have 300-400 words to play around and if take like 200 word saying that you have done this and that u are just going to waste your words and they only want you there for like a week and what they want to know is that if you enjoy the subject u study.If you have done something like lab placement or feild work THAN it is useful to say but saying that you enjoy playing football is not that important.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR APPLICATION.
and you can join the facebook group for this summer school.