Are my AS grades Oxbridge material?...

For my AS grades last year I got AAAC, I got the C in Chemistry and A in Physics, Art and Maths. I dropped chem for Y13 this year, but my A in Maths and Physics are low A's and Art is a mid A. I mean I haven't even started by personal statement and want to apply for Oxford but Oct 15th is around the corner. Would applying for Oxford just be a joke and take up space from a more likely offer as they probably wouldn't take me up. I want to engineering and possibly civil engineering specifically.

If we were discussing this in August, I'd say give it a go. However, given that the deadline is in 2 weeks and you've not even started your PS, I wouldn't bother, you've left it too late. Spend your time improving your application and maybe you can apply post-A2 if your results are really good.

But whether your results are brilliant or not, oxbridge,lse,imperial,ucl,warwick dont do adjustments right? So can you still have a chance to get in if you achieve the grades or better the requirements but werent predicted these and/or werent made a conditional?

When I say post-A2, I mean applying for 2016 entry. Those universities don't to adjustment (certainly not Oxbridge or Imperial).

So if your predictions arent in line with requirements is it better not to apply now and if results are entry healthy then apply on results day because you havent been rejected already.

For the most competitive courses, the standard offers they make are probably going to be relatively easy to achieve for most applicants. If you don't think you will easily achieve their standard offer, then no, it's probably not a good idea to apply.

Whats the worst if you do unrealistically apply? Can other unis become put off by this?
I do believe I will get the standards but the predictions arent overly friendly.

Yeah I wouldn't either. The applications for oxbridge are supposed to be about finished by now tbh
For engineering other unis are better anyway.
But yay for civil engineering I'm doing it too

If we were discussing this in August, I'd say give it a go. However, given that the deadline is in 2 weeks and you've not even started your PS, I wouldn't bother, you've left it too late. Spend your time improving your application and maybe you can apply post-A2 if your results are really good.

Cool, what draws you to civil engineering, why do you want to do it?

15 days are seriously too few to complete the PS, unless you don't care about its quality!

It's your choice in the end, but you should really re-consider about Oxford. It's risky as it is with a perfect PS (irrespective of whether they care about it or not -another uni may care a lot and actually reject you on the basis of your PS alone!)

15 days are seriously too few to complete the PS, unless you don't care about its quality!

It's your choice in the end, but you should really re-consider about Oxford. It's risky as it is with a perfect PS (irrespective of whether they care about it or not -another uni may care a lot and actually reject you on the basis of your PS alone!)

Yeah I wouldn't either. The applications for oxbridge are supposed to be about finished by now tbh
For engineering other unis are better anyway.
But yay for civil engineering I'm doing it too

Is it though? TBH I think I wrote essentially the whole thing in 1-2 evenings, and then polished it for a week.

I spent maybe 5 hours on my PS and got into Cambridge. Tbh 15 days is more than enough to do one.

I actually have a friend who wrote her PS with a hangover about 5 days before the deadline last year and she got an offer for Arch and Anth! It can be done but the OP needs to be quick, efficient and spend hours a day editing and thinking carefully about their language etc. I personally spent about 6 weeks on mine so they are cutting it short for sure!

That is definitely not a good idea though.