2017 Oxford Prospective Students

I loved it! Fell in love with the all over again; ir's really motivated me too...I've done a lot of M.A.T. prep in the past week. I loved Somerville and St. Hugh's the most out of the colleges I saw. I thought the tutors in St. Peter's were absolutely lovely but the actual college didn't appeal to me as much so I don't know what to do....
What about you?

I loved it! Fell in love with the university all over again; ir's really motivated me too...I've done a lot of M.A.T. prep in the past week. I loved Somerville and St. Hugh's the most out of the colleges I saw. I thought the tutors in St. Peter's were absolutely lovely but the actual college didn't appeal to me as much so I don't know what to do....
What about you?

Absolutely loved it! Oxford is an amazing place - I'm worried I've fallen in love with it a little bit too much and I'm now far too attached for my own good, but, y'know. Applying to either Brasenose, Oriel or Univ to study History and Politics.

And that's where the confusion comes in. I'm really worried about applying for joint honours because I've been told it's much harder to get a place etc., which makes sense because there are less places available for joint courses. So I'm absolutely terrified to apply for History and Politics even though it's the course I love, and might just apply for History because I love both subjects so much that I'd happily do either separately as well. But I'm really not sure because my heart does say History and Politics, but realistically I'd probably have a better chance at getting a place for single honours History and Oxford has always been my dream.

I am thinking to apply to St. Hugh's for biological sciences. I am an international student so I was not able to visit it.
Could you please tell me more about it!

P.S. Which course?

Same, I absolutely loved it. Merton and Corpus were my favourites, but my teacher did warn me they're harder to get into. Apparently he more meant that in a 'minimising chances of getting pooled' way rather than a 'getting into the university' way though, so I'm not feeling too bad about it.

My teacher has also been running sessions to help people prep for uni admissions, so this week I've been doing a STEP I paper, which I've actually found pretty hard. *cries*

Absolutely loved it! Oxford is an amazing place - I'm worried I've fallen in love with it a little bit too much and I'm now far too attached for my own good, but, y'know.

Hi!
I'm hoping to apply to study history at Oxford, does anyone have any advice on how to prepare for the HAT?

Are you applying for maths? I absolutely loved the lecturers at the maths talks, thought their sense of humour was hilarious...
I'm international so I've been trying to teach myself C1 & C2...our syllabus doesn't cover calculus until the last 2 months of your last year :/
Hoping to try some STEP 1 and UKMT papers then, and then start past MAT papers at the end of August...are you doing anything else to prepare?

Is it actually true that applying to less well heard of colleges does not improve your chance of getting in?

I know that if Oxford think you're good enough then you will get in and be pooled etc but surely you're more likely to get into a new less famous college than Christchurch etc?

can someone explain?


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Hmm, I applied for PPE at Hertford. Didn't get in - apparently my TSA was "excellent", philosophy and politics interviews good, but economics wasn't enough.

I talked to a guy from a university I might now attend, he holds a PHD from Oxford - his first response was to laugh at me for even trying to get into Hertford. "You don't apply to Hertford if you want to do PPE, you apply to Lady Margaret Hall" was his exact reply...


[On the other hand people DO study at the cool colleges, lol, so it certainly is possible to get in, but the best colleges will probably attract the best candidates.]

Is that implying that Hertford is really hard to get into? Or LMH is much better?

S/he's implying that Hertford is hard to get into, which may be true - I've not seen the stats - but it won't make you less likely to get into the university, it just means you're more likely to be reallocated to another college. Viridiana is probably mistaken if s/he thinks that applying to Hertford made them more likely to be rejected.

I've heard that for medicine, the successful candidate had a mean pA*s of 0.94. I only took 10 GCSEs and got 9A*s and an A. That would give me a proportion of 0.9 which is less than the mean. Does that mean I will be at a disadvantage?

Did you do well in your GCSEs?

Pretty good for my region but not tsr :'D
6A*s, 3A's, 1B

Which A Levels are you doing?

Maths, Further maths, Physics, Chemistry

Which course do you plan to apply for?

Physics bc it's amazing

Do any particular colleges interest you? Why?

I have absolutely no idea - any will do I guess

What are your hobbies?

manga/anime, everything sci-fi, badminton, reading, interneting, does physics count as a hobby? haha

If you were given a place next year, what would you do for the rest of that day?

Internally cry then shout it out to everyone I know - wait no, everyone I come across haha

I'll join the crowds - I'm a first year physics student at St Hugh's, feel free to ask me anything