Specific Course: History of Art
Universities you're applying to: Oxford, UCL, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Warwick
A level / IB / Higher grades: A*A*A
GCSE grades: 9,9,9, 8,8,8,7,7,6
Random question: Wondering if anyone has the interview questions asked last year in order to practice for this years.

Talk about art and why your like a particular painting. Have your own ideas not parrot-fashioned from a book.

If the Professor has written a book, read it before you go in.

(edited 3 months ago)

Reply 23

foul-screenwrite

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Original post by 04MR17

Are you applying to study History of Art at University this year?
Well this is the place for you!
:party:

Post below with details about your...

Specific Course:
Universities you're applying to:
A level / IB / Higher grades:
GCSE grades:
Random question:

Share as much detail as you're comfortable with.

You may also want to have a look at this HUGE LIST of other applicants threads for all the universities you're applying to as well as potential other courses if you're a joint honours student. :woo:

History/History of Art
Applied: ucl, warwick, edinburgh, leeds, york
A levels: history a*, lit a*, economics a*, politics a (achieved)
GCSES: 5s and two 7s
will my gcses stop me from getting offers? i didnt sit my gcses and these were teacher submitted.

Reply 24

AngelikaK

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Are all your A-levels achieved? If so, your GCSEs won’t matter much.

Reply 25

robinnnh

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hii has anyone received an offer to study history of art at oxford? and if so which college? i have been offered a place at lincoln college, probably a long shot of finding anyone else because it’s a small cohort but would be interested to know if anyone has!

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notagna_tsr

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Original post by bagel monster

Which two pairs did you choose? I picked the two pairs of paintings! They were more well known than I had expected : )

i did the ones w the artists (2nd option) and the 4th option (paintings) also lol! mostly bc i love Islamic art and felt i could say something about urban life in the 4th pair

icl i was lowkey shocked when they asked me about it and my answers in my interview tho!

(edited 3 months ago)

Reply 27

notagna_tsr

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Original post by iohara2005

Hey what college in Cambridge have you applied for?

pembroke! waiting to hear back obvs but tbh (controversial?) St Andrews is kind of my first choice and i already had an offer from them for aaa!

Reply 28

iohara2005

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Original post by notagna_tsr

pembroke! waiting to hear back obvs but tbh (controversial?) St Andrews is kind of my first choice and i already had an offer from them for aaa!

I have a St Andrews offer aswell!! Pembroke seems so nice

Reply 29

iohara2005

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How are we feeling for tomorrow!!

Reply 30

notagna_tsr

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Original post by zode83

what shocked me was the amount of well known artists used. I expected more niche stuff I guess. I don't really know though

what I mean by the tripos has changed is that I know its undergone changes and you can see that, as they changed the interview process a bit and gave context to each images. The department told me the tripos is changing when I was at my summer school!

this is so real but i will say i asked them in my interview if they had a sense of what new special subjects they were thinking about offering and/or what new areas they are hoping the dept will be able to teach and they admitted they were understaffed and particularly in Islamic art which was a bit of a bummer tbh. what about the interview process do you think changed though? because i wasn’t expecting to be asked about my exam answers for one and wasn’t sure if that was just a me thing or if they did legitimately change it?

Reply 31

notagna_tsr

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Original post by Jellyfish66

Talk about art and why your like a particular painting. Have your own ideas not parrot-fashioned from a book.

If the Professor has written a book, read it before you go in.

this is irrelevant now but for anyone that happens to peruse this thread in the future i would probs not mention the books your interviewer has written (and hopefully they won’t specialise in the main thing you talk about) because imo they will just be able to scrutinise your answers so much more

Reply 32

Scotney

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Original post by Blobertwiz

My number is 07359034834

Stop going around the site giving out your number.Reported.

Reply 33

AngelikaK

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Original post by notagna_tsr

this is so real but i will say i asked them in my interview if they had a sense of what new special subjects they were thinking about offering and/or what new areas they are hoping the dept will be able to teach and they admitted they were understaffed and particularly in Islamic art which was a bit of a bummer tbh. what about the interview process do you think changed though? because i wasn’t expecting to be asked about my exam answers for one and wasn’t sure if that was just a me thing or if they did legitimately change it?

Very small departments are a thing in History of Art. The only HoA in the UK that doesn’t have severe limitations on the temporal/geographic range of subjects taught by specialists is the Courtauld (which is expanding).