The Oxford 2012 Results Day Discussion Thread

don't be terrified!

0th week starts on Sunday 30th September - most colleges have their (non international) students arriving on the Monday or Tuesday.

Oh my god exactly. No one expected me to get in, they kept congratulating the wrong person for about a week! Getting three A's did not seem at all hard before this happened. I always thought that at least if I messed up I could beg Nottingham to let me in, now it would be an attempt to get to Scotland out of the blue haha. What's your insurance?

Never been so scared of results day, FML.

My insurance is Exeter university (AAB), but although I like it, it's much further away from home, and I'd much rather be at Oxford!

Me. I switch between desperately wanting to go right now, and then being terrified that due to not having done any continuous work since December, I shan't be able to keep up.

Completely irrelevant but if you desire to study Economics and Management in Oxford, are Economics, Maths, Physics and Philosophy good A Level subject choices?

Exeter was meant to be my insurance, but then I accidentally applied for a course with 75 people in it ( I'm clever like that) and they gave me an offer higher than Oxford, lol.

That's exactly how I feel, except, of course, it's been since last June, rather than December for me. I honestly think that by October, I'll have completely forgotten how to write essays, not to mention everything I learned in school.

Exactly! And I got a four page reading list and an essay already so it's a bit scary. I have to email them to say I received it but keep putting it off for some reason...Funnily enough they sent me a " thank you for accepting our offer" and I haven't even accepted them yet, cheeky!

Well, it was last June that I last did schoolwork, but I did some form of work to prepare for interview and wrote a lot of ELAT essays. I really want a reading list so I can just start, my first essay is going to be absolute trash.




I really want a reading list! How long is it? And an essay? What's the essay on? And which college are you heading to? I love their presumption...are you waiting on other choices?

Oh noo! That's kind of funny, I'm guessing the course is so oversubscribed that they really have to up the offer grades! To be fair, for history the grades at Exeter ranged from AAB-A*AA, and I was just lucky I think, to get a lower offer, obviously if I'd been given an AAA/A*AA offer and still got an offer from Oxford then they wouldn't have gotten a look in! My insurance in that scenario would have probably been UEA, which was really nice.

Are you applying for English? Something about the Bronte sisters haha. It's exciting at first, then you realise that even if you do manage to read most of the books, you probably won't be able to remember them too well. It's four pages, seems like about ninety books or so. I'm sure you'll get one in time.
St.Hilda's, you?
I was waiting from Edinburgh for about seven months, only to have my first rejection, haha but I've firmed Oxford now

Does anyone know when the Teddy Hall reading lists are sent out? Sorry, but I can't get a facebook account to join the group so I can't ask there.

I applied for English, yes. Well, I was very keen at the start of this month and bought a whole lot of stationary to make notes. I just need to pick a book and start...I'm very much looking forward to having a focus again.

I was accepted by St. Edmund Hall. I'm not familiar with St. Hilda's... I presume it was a nice feeling to firm Oxford?

Been reading 'Jill' by Phil Larkin. It's a very depressing book about a boy called John (viz. Philip Larkin) from "the provinces" (viz. lancashire) coming up to Oxford and getting his self-esteem throttled by some "braying" toffs cause he can't tie a bow tie. And that's basically the plot of the novel....

It's weirdly compelling tho... i cant get thru three pages without squirming with embarasment at the way John puts his foot it at every possible moment...

Anyhow thought it was relevant for us freshers, and its also a great book if u like cringing repeatedly...

hmmmm how do you tie a bow tie

Been reading 'Jill' by Phil Larkin. It's a very depressing book about a boy called John (viz. Philip Larkin) from "the provinces" (viz. lancashire) coming up to Oxford and getting his self-esteem throttled by some "braying" toffs cause he can't tie a bow tie. And that's basically the plot of the novel....

It's weirdly compelling tho... i cant get thru three pages without squirming with embarasment at the way John puts his foot it at every possible moment...

Anyhow thought it was relevant for us freshers, and its also a great book if u like cringing repeatedly...

I LOVE LARKIN gonna add it to my post-a levels oxford-theme to read/watch list (inc. An Education, The History Boys, Brideshead Revisited)

haha i read brideshead revisited too.

the history boys is a great film! i love how their advice to get into oxford is be intellectually dishonest and come up with ridiculous and original interpretations of history for which there isn't one iota of evidence!