Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

I'm pretty convinced that an efficient compsci department doesn't actually exist... which seems ironic.

Thanks...cant' go without a scholarship though..... which course you will be doing, btw

I'm pretty convinced that an efficient compsci department doesn't actually exist... which seems ironic.

For Brasenose, an MSc in Modern Chinese Studies, and at Pembroke an MPhil in the same subject . Funding will decide where I go. How about you?

Straightforward rejection for MSc Computer Science (no interview/pooling). I saw it coming a mile off though, to be fair.

I wish these unis could just send out a candid and direct rejection notice. They always mince their words so much... Give me the single bullet to the head rather than being shot in the chest repeatedly and slowly bleed to death!

Straightforward rejection for MSc Computer Science (no interview/pooling). I saw it coming a mile off though, to be fair.

I wish these unis could just send out a candid and direct rejection notice. They always mince their words so much... Give me the single bullet to the head rather than being shot in the chest repeatedly and slowly bleed to death!

Straightforward rejection for MSc Computer Science (no interview/pooling). I saw it coming a mile off though, to be fair.

I wish these unis could just send out a candid and direct rejection notice. They always mince their words so much... Give me the single bullet to the head rather than being shot in the chest repeatedly and slowly bleed to death!

Straightforward rejection for MSc Computer Science (no interview/pooling). I saw it coming a mile off though, to be fair.

I wish these unis could just send out a candid and direct rejection notice. They always mince their words so much... Give me the single bullet to the head rather than being shot in the chest repeatedly and slowly bleed to death!

i don know what to say but i fully understand your feelings....hope you get over with it soon....good luck with your other application

Oh no! I'm really sorry you got bad news.. They probably saw something in your application to have you hold out while they were giving out offers, though.
If it's any consolation I think that's the way I'm headed too.
You've still got your other applications though, and will probably go somewhere awesome, so don't let it knock your confidence

Sorry : (

I would'be actually liked my reply to have been a bit longer. I want to know why they rejected me. For the second time. I am obviously doing something wrong when it comes to Oxford and although I don't mind the rejection per sé, I am seriously curious.

I totally understand. The rejection itself doesn't bother me (I've had worse, including a plain weird one from MIT). Just want to find out the main reasons really! I think it's only fair after paying that hefty application fee. Glad I did not waive the right to view recommendation letters now too.

Cheers, anyway.

You can do that ?

Waive the right? Sure. Some referees prefer this... fortunately not mine. At least they didn't say so.

Yeah... cheers anyway. I think that's optimistic to presume that there was something good about my app, but I sort of doubt it. My grades probably just weren't good enough.

What stage is yours at currently? You got the interview at least? :-)

Well they're being incredibly cheeky and STILL haven't emailed me. The application deadline was like 6 weeks ago. *sigh*
Where else have you applied to?

Very cheeky! You had the same deadline as me eh? Normally I'd try to encourage you by saying they're still considering your application, but after my recent experiences I'm inclined to think they leave rejectees to last... You might want to get a bit firmer with admissions. In any case, fingers crossed for you!

I sort of wanted to move away, given I did my undergrad in London and had enough of it. Hence all my others are US unis. (Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon... not exactly ones likely to accept me!) So I'm mainly prepared to get zero offers.

So sorry to hear about these bad news... I really hope you'll get an offer that will make you happy in the end.
Did you look for your program on the grad café results page? US unis are annoying in that they very often wait until very late to reject people, so the website is a good tool to see at what stage of the admission process various programs are. It can be quite heartbreaking though when you realize that they've already invited their 5 or 10 favourite candidates for interview week-ends...

I didn't look at my programme on The Grad Cafe website. In fact, I hadn't even heard of it before, but thanks for drawing it to my attention! I just signed up and posted on the "2012 applicants & results" forum thread. I couldn't find anything specific for computer science.