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Original post by medbh4805
nein. they must accept you this time :fuhrer:
i will not tolerate anythign differnent


I concur :love:

also happy birthday! :cake:
I wish Oxford would hurry up and put some information about the new Psychology & Linguistics course online :bebored:
Original post by Mr Inquisitive
Putting too much pressure on the whole process; it wasn't required at all, and just made exams much more gruelling. :redface:

At least you haven't taken it as one of five to A2, the exam is just death (in the sense that it's so unforgivably boring!) :frown:


Ah right, well at least this way you can smash your exams with somewhat less pressure, and apply next year knowing you've already got kickarse grades. :smile:
Original post by Welsh Lady
I wish Oxford would hurry up and put some information about the new Psychology & Linguistics course online :bebored:


Aren't you a 2012 tabber :eek: ?
Original post by Kidioteque
Fair enough, but it's designed so that there's very little preparation you can do. :redface:


Ah right, I'll look into it later :P.

Have you read any Law books yet?
Funny how eager us, the 2012 people, are... Taking over the thread and exerting our influence already compared to the virtually non-existent 2011 lot on last year's thread :ahee:
Original post by Defragmentation
Ah right, I'll look into it later :P.

Have you read any Law books yet?


Good good :tongue:

Not many, just What About Law?, The Law Machine and bits of stuff by Immanuel Kant. I'll do a lot more over the summer :smile: Have you?
Original post by Brand New Eyes
Aren't you a 2012 tabber :eek: ?


Yes, got rejected for Cam 2012 :frown:
It was me who opened the Cam applicants thread, so that's why you might know me :wink:

But as I'm from Germany I'm in the lucky position to be able to start uni here this autumn and reapply nevertheless :biggrin:
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Original post by Welsh Lady
Yes, got rejected for Cam 2012 :frown:
It was me who opened the Cam applicants thread, so that's why you might know me :wink:

But as I'm from Germany I'm in the lucky position to be able to start uni here this autumn and reapply nevertheless :biggrin:

Weren't you interested in music at one point?
Also, what made you switch over to the dark light side ? :smile:
Original post by Welsh Lady
Yes, got rejected for Cam 2012 :frown:
It was me who opened the Cam applicants thread, so that's why you might know me :wink:

But as I'm from Germany I'm in the lucky position to be able to start uni here this autumn and reapply nevertheless :biggrin:


Haha that's exactly why I know you! What did you apply for this year?

I may be jumping ship too :h: (towards the dark bright side)

:woo: switchover.

Ah but that means you might waste your first year!

:/ also curious as to how you're welsh? :tongue:
Original post by Brand New Eyes
Haha that's exactly why I know you! What did you apply for this year?

I may be jumping ship too :h: (towards the dark bright side)

:woo: switchover.
Ah but that means you might waste your first year!

:/ also curious as to how you're welsh? :tongue:


Well, I wanted to apply for Oxford in the first place because I fell in love with the city and uni instandly when I visited the place some years ago.
But then I couldn't really decide on a course and found the Education course at Cam which isn't offered at Oxford :rolleyes:
However, to console you: I like Oxford better than Cam :tongue:

And yes, I was interested in Music at a joint honour's subject at one point, but decided to apply for History in the end.

I wouldn't mind going to a uni in the UK after one year here in Germany, because I'd really much rather study in the UK (preferably Oxbridge) and the fees here are very low :tongue: And I'm still quite young for going to uni anyway.

Haha, my nickname is confusing, I know :^_^: I chose it while I was in Wales as an exchange student. I had such an amazing time there :biggrin:
Anyone here want to do Chemistry? :tongue:

I visited Oxford last month for an admissions talk on Chemistry etc. and looked around at a few colleges too; it looks beautiful! :smile: And the tutors seemed hilarious and into their subject, and they seemed a bit crazy but that was fine by me because I could see myself getting on with them. Wishful thinking, perhaps. :tongue:
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Original post by Kidioteque
Good good :tongue:

Not many, just What About Law?, The Law Machine and bits of stuff by Immanuel Kant. I'll do a lot more over the summer :smile: Have you?


I haven't even looked at what books are available aha :P - I'll have to do a lot of reading in the Summer!

I don't know how you've managed to read Kant, it's like he aims to be pretentious and obnoxious!
Original post by Defragmentation
I haven't even looked at what books are available aha :P - I'll have to do a lot of reading in the Summer!

I don't know how you've managed to read Kant, it's like he aims to be pretentious and obnoxious!



Aha, I only really read those two so that I could make a better judgement about whether or not Law was for me. It helped.

However I don't think there's much of a rush, and there'll be ample time during summer to do so :smile:

As for Kant, I don't think I could read any of his books cover to cover, but he's good to dip in and out of. I'm planning to focus on him in my EPQ as he pioneered categoric reasoning and did some really interesting work how to 'locate' morality - the topic I'm considering writing about. :smile:
Original post by Kidioteque
Aha, I only really read those two so that I could make a better judgement about whether or not Law was for me. It helped.

However I don't think there's much of a rush, and there'll be ample time during summer to do so :smile:

As for Kant, I don't think I could read any of his books cover to cover, but he's good to dip in and out of. I'm planning to focus on him in my EPQ as he pioneered categoric reasoning and did some really interesting work how to 'locate' morality - the topic I'm considering writing about. :smile:


Oh dear God, I studied Kant's duty ethics for the morality topic in Philosophy. Probably the worst theory that I studied (this is bearing in mind that I also read about VIRTUE ethics).
Original post by Nag o ma Scylla
I feel like a neglectful parent now …

not at all stalking this thread though I'll be on my year abroad when the 2013 people start, crazy :eek:


Nah it's cool, it turned out fine for us :smile:

And you could look forward to being a college parent to someone in my year.
Original post by RampantLion
I'm a Law offer holder and my best advice at this stage is to read 'What about law?' Out of all the extra reading I did, it was the best. It's excellently written, and introduces you to thinking about what sort of questions you should ask yourself when looking at cases. It is also good for seeing if you actually want to study a law degree.

My interviews were entirely based on cases I was given 20 minutes beforehand, and most people I spoke to from other colleges applying for law, had to at one stage look at a case. So it's worthwhile familiarising yourself with this sort of material. Take a look at bailli.org as well for some actual judgements if you have time. An interesting shortish one to start with is probably the CTB case (famous injunction case involving Imogen Thomas and that footballer :wink: haha)

As for some more Jurisprudence/philosophy, take a look at Michael Sandel's online lectures called 'Justice'. He's a Harvard professor and this is the most popular class at Harvard I think. It's about 12 lectures that are very easy to watch. It's incredibly interesting, well presented and addresses some good legal principles as well as covering stuff like Kant, Bentham, Mill etc.


Those lectures are where I got my inspiration for my EPQ aha! "The Moral Side of Murder" and so on.
Original post by RampantLion
I'm a Law offer holder and my best advice at this stage is to read 'What about law?' Out of all the extra reading I did, it was the best. It's excellently written, and introduces you to thinking about what sort of questions you should ask yourself when looking at cases. It is also good for seeing if you actually want to study a law degree.

My interviews were entirely based on cases I was given 20 minutes beforehand, and most people I spoke to from other colleges applying for law, had to at one stage look at a case. So it's worthwhile familiarising yourself with this sort of material. Take a look at bailli.org as well for some actual judgements if you have time. An interesting shortish one to start with is probably the CTB case (famous injunction case involving Imogen Thomas and that footballer :wink: haha)

As for some more Jurisprudence/philosophy, take a look at Michael Sandel's online lectures called 'Justice'. He's a Harvard professor and this is the most popular class at Harvard I think. It's about 12 lectures that are very easy to watch. It's incredibly interesting, well presented and addresses some good legal principles as well as covering stuff like Kant, Bentham, Mill etc.


I am also a Law offer holder and I agree with pretty much everything there. I'd also highly recommend the book 'The Rule of Law' by Lord Bingham. It's very modern (2010) and is written by one of the most, if not the most, influential judges of our time. You'll find it very accessible and it covers a lot of the law from the ground up, so that by the end of it you have a great grounding in some of the most important principles of legal thinking. Indeed, its subject topic is arguably the very basis of a liberal democracy.

For reference, in my two interviews, I was not given anything beforehand. I was presented with an imaginary scenario and we discussed the various implications as the scenario was changed. You had to be very aware of what you were saying and pay extra attention to detail, which makes it an interview approach different in style but similar in difficulty to one with a case on paper in front of you.

I'd add that if you want keep up to date with developments in the legal world, visit this website often: www.guardian.co.uk/law. It's the only free subsection of a newspaper that you can access online. Also, find a particular area of law that interests you and look at some of the blogs that are available on it (e.g. mine is international law so I look at www.opiniojuris.org from time to time). They give you quite a fresh outlook on current legal issues, and having a 'specialist' area gives you an easy thing to talk about in your personal statement.

But really the most important thing at this stage is to make sure that you get the grades. Without them, you will be really stuck - not just with struggling to get to Oxford but also to any other reasonably decent law school as they all have similar entrance requirements. Don't let any wider reading or whatever take over from your primary academic study.

Good luck!
Original post by Welsh Lady
Yes, got rejected for Cam 2012 :frown:
It was me who opened the Cam applicants thread, so that's why you might know me :wink:

But as I'm from Germany I'm in the lucky position to be able to start uni here this autumn and reapply nevertheless :biggrin:


Wir werden bestimmt feste Freunde sein :cool:

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Yeah so some people here have already meldeten sich bei mir to ask about interviews, and just to say I am that elusive creature: a linguist. I follow this thread with interest :cool:
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Original post by Reminisce
Funny how eager us, the 2012 people, are... Taking over the thread and exerting our influence already compared to the virtually non-existent 2011 lot on last year's thread :ahee:


:lolwut:

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