Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

My guess would be that applications will have gone up, at least for the one-year taught courses.

But you dont think the DPhil applications will be up as well?

Hey all!

Any admitted fellows in the COMPUTER SCIENCE Masters program would like to share their profiles with me? (either here or by personal message)

I'm an international student graduating this year with a BSc in Computer Science.
I've applied 2 weeks ago and I really need to know who's getting in

I submitted my application around the same time, and received the three questions (two problem-solving and one personal) around the same time. Nothing since then. What is your current status?

Hi all,

I've received an offer to do a DPhil in History at Oxford - more specifically in the economic and social history division - and have some questions about that.

Firstly, the offer is conditional (I'm currently an MA student); is this normal, and how stringently are they going to hold me to the conditions?

What is the relationship between the department and the ESH division? Is ESH largely self-contained, with different requirements and methodology, or is it a more fluid kind of thing? For example, research seminars - are they department wide, or ESH only? [The reasons I ask is that my background is in economics and political science, very little straight history. I did a lot of economic history at the LSE, but there it was different: they had a whole economic history department, with it's own requirements etc. So I guess I'm wondering what it's like to be in a history faculty…]


Despite being in the History department, my supervisor would be an economist. I've heard that these kinds of combinations can be problematic, because economists will expect one kind of methodology and argument, while historians expect something completely different. Can anyone comment on this?


Finally, any remarks in general about being a research student in the history department at Oxford?


I also have some rather specific questions: Does anyone know when I can expect to hear about funding? Do most DPhil students get funding? Does it matter what college I end up in? Will I be expected to move to Oxford for the first year?

I realize this is a lot, please answer whatever you can or are comfortable with. Also, please feel free to forward to any other DPhil students you know…


Thanks in advance...

I'm not fadingwinters (obviously!), but can answer the first bit of this: yes, there are people working on contemporary writers within the Oxford English Faculty. Try poking about on e.g. Academia.edu, that might help you to see some profiles or CVs of current students, and give you a sense of their research agendas. I don't really know how one selects (I presume you mean for a dissertation, as there's less choice, usually, in the taught modules), but I imagine you just have to agree it with your supervisor, and could in theory make a case for any author that appealed. I don't know whether dissertation topics have to be faculty-approved, but if so I would guess it's a rubber-stamping in most cases.

In short, although contemporary stuff isn't among the Faculty's largest subfields, it's definitely possible to do it!

I applied around the same time as you, and I got exactly the same thing - four questions:


The last two questions were like this. I actually enjoyed solving them

Hi!

I applied in late October and got the questionnaire in mid November. After that, it took approx. two months until I received the interview invitation. (It actually turned out, that my interview was supposed to be a month earlier, but there have been some internal issues - Don't worry! This doesn't mean that the department is likely to forget about your application. They will still come back to you, but in some cases it just takes a bit longer. No need to be concerned )

After my interview it took less than a week until I was informed about the outcome of my application!

Good luck with your applications!

Yes, I am! (Mphil)
I want to do the general linguistics part, especially focusing on psycholinguistics/neurolinguistics. I only applied to Oxford, because I really want to go there. The only problem now is money, but I'm working on that...
What is your main interest in linguistics? And where are you from?

I'm Dutch but I finished my bachelor's in the UK last summer and now I'm on a sort of gap year. I want to focus on syntax, a bit of phonology perhaps and language documentation in the end. How about you?

I'm Dutch too! Did my bachelor's in Linguistics and German language & culture at the University of Amsterdam (actually, still, until the summer).
How will you decide between Oxford and Cambridge? (I thought Oxford had more opportunities to study General linguistics, viewing both websites)

Me too , might as well start talking Dutch on here :P

Haha that'd be fun for the rest of us. How do you say 'This Waiting Game Sucks' in Dutch ?

There is no translation for the "game" element, you just wouldn't say that in Dutch.
I would say something like: "het wachten is (erg) vervelend" (the waiting is (very) nerving) or, stronger, "ik word gek van het wachten" (I am becoming mad because of the waiting, literally).
Don't know if the other Dutch people agree with this?

(sorry for taking all your places btw but you are free to apply to Dutch universities too!)

I may put it a little stronger.


The British seem to be very afraid to go abroad. Or as they say 'to Europe'.

I may put it a little stronger.

It's true... for a few reasons. Most of us can't speak any foreign language fluently (or even conversationally). We're also lucky enough to have a handful of the best-ranked and most reputable universities in the world (e.g. Oxford, Cambride, Imperial, UCL, LSE). Only the US really beats us there, and that's exactly where most Brits go for postgrad if they study abroad.

So yeah, we'll reap the rewards of the Anglo-Saxon bias while it lasts. :-)