2017 Oxford Prospective Students

Hi BrasenoseAdm, I don't manage to get an offer from Oxford this year but feel obliged to say a BIG THANK YOU for all your input.


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Heyy guys,

Uncertain whether I want to apply to Cambridge or Oxford yet

~13A* and 2A (including short course GCSE's)

~My a levels are maths,further maths, additional further maths (self taught), economics and German

~Either Maths or Maths and Stats

~Related activities: UKMT team and individual challenges, UKMT mentoring schemes, Royal Institute maths scheme, tutor maths to GCSE, cam STEP scheme etc

I think I could have received a higher raw mark for some GCSE exams if I hadn't gone on TSR so much. However, regarding the distribution of revision time between different subjects and exam according to importance and difficulty, I ended up executing that perfectly.

Mixture of different reasons. I wouldn't mind talking about it tomorrow.

i took 3 AS exams in yr 11 and bc i was so annoyed at my school at making me take them i put 0 effort in. i got As but with low UMS (all <90). thank god oxford don't see ups grades so an 83% is no different to a 99% at AS to them.

also i regret not putting more effort into my gcses. i've always been smart so i guess i kind of new i'd do well without much revising but now i look back and think if i had tried harder would i have got straight A*s? lots of girls in my year got straight A*s and i wish i had tried as hard as them. also av. A* percentage is 90% (can't remember where i read this) which i missed out on. :/

anyways have any of you already started thinking about your PS? i recently realised i have nothing impressive to put on there.

You are a genius,. Can you show me the path to enlightenment?

I am applying to a summer school, where I need a personal statement so I've written a shorter version of it

Realised I can't fit everything I want to in :/

Heyy guys,

Uncertain whether I want to apply to Cambridge or Oxford yet

~13A* and 2A (including short course GCSE's)

~My a levels are maths,further maths, additional further maths (self taught), economics and German

~Either Maths or Maths and Stats

~Related activities: UKMT team and individual challenges, UKMT mentoring schemes, Royal Institute maths scheme, tutor maths to GCSE, cam STEP scheme etc

No need for despair, I only found out my subject existed around this time in your life and only made the final decision to study it the summer before I applied. You've still got more than enough time to get your teeth into your subject and as always, GCSEs are not everything

do/did you go to private school?

do/did you go to private school?

What about you?

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Did you ever find yourself in a rush to catch up with people who knew about Earth Sciences before you did?

Yeah they were such a nice bunch of people! Shame there wasn't anything like the same participation in humanities threads

Yeah, I moved to quite a famous/ prestigious school for sixth form, so I guess it is its reputation that attracts lecturers. It's an amazing opportunity though, one I'm really grateful for. It wasn't easy to get in and when I go to all these lectures I'm thinking, this is why I came to this school. Mind you, not all the lectures are from lecturers per se, some our from old students who have gone on to do post-grads, or in the case of history, people who have actually lived through it.

I wouldn't worry about it though, there is plenty of time to go to lectures and this number isn't really the norm, it's just because my school is pretty academic. Besides, it's what you do with lectures that counts. That's why I'm trying to develop my literary interests based on lectures I've been to, so I can show depth in one particular area

this thread is so dead compared to cambridge 2017... its the 2016 thread all over agin.