Oxford Rejection Reason

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You obviously have great scores, but CS is one of the most competitive courses and they have a lot of good applicants. Perhaps there were simply too many other excellent candidates, rather than any failing of yours, or they felt your personal statement was not strong enough.

I'm sorry about your rejection but am sure you will do very well elsewhere!

Thanks for the encouragement! I did request feedback but they usually take till Feb to reply which is so long. My personal statement was filled with supercurriculars though (finishing calc 1 & 2 by grade 9 and getting a max AP calc score by self studying in grade 9, doing calc 3 in uni, doing math competitions like AMC 12, AIME, researching about AI, doing a TED talk on AI which got 12,000+ views, robotics, etc) it seems like personal statement wouldnt be the reason, infact james said on the livestream, they are interviewing "significantly more" so i get that CS is competitive and maybe i wouldnt get an offer but if there have been so many more CS interviews and even then i dont get one, something doesnt feel right

Thanks for the encouragement! I did request feedback but they usually take till Feb to reply which is so long. My personal statement was filled with supercurriculars though (finishing calc 1 & 2 by grade 9 and getting a max AP calc score by self studying in grade 9, doing calc 3 in uni, doing math competitions like AMC 12, AIME, researching about AI, doing a TED talk on AI which got 12,000+ views, robotics, etc) it seems like personal statement wouldnt be the reason, infact james said on the livestream, they are interviewing "significantly more" so i get that CS is competitive and maybe i wouldnt get an offer but if there have been so many more CS interviews and even then i dont get one, something doesnt feel right

Maybe that’s your problem, you filled your personal statement up with talking about super curriculars as opposed to everything else that matters.

Did you talk about why Oxford? Why CS? Wider reading you’ve done around the subject etc?

Thanks for the encouragement! I did request feedback but they usually take till Feb to reply which is so long. My personal statement was filled with supercurriculars though (finishing calc 1 & 2 by grade 9 and getting a max AP calc score by self studying in grade 9, doing calc 3 in uni, doing math competitions like AMC 12, AIME, researching about AI, doing a TED talk on AI which got 12,000+ views, robotics, etc) it seems like personal statement wouldnt be the reason, infact james said on the livestream, they are interviewing "significantly more" so i get that CS is competitive and maybe i wouldnt get an offer but if there have been so many more CS interviews and even then i dont get one, something doesnt feel right

Maybe that’s your problem, you filled your personal statement up with talking about super curriculars as opposed to everything else that matters.

Did you talk about why Oxford? Why CS? Wider reading you’ve done around the subject etc?

Did you just list those or link it to the skills and how they inspired you to study CS?

Are you applying to MIT?

Yep I didn't mention specific unis since it's sent to all. I linked those to CS also and yes, I am applying to MIT also

I know of US students who have rejected Oxford places for MIT ...

I would too, infact MIT was always my top choice, Oxford was my third choice, MIT was first and Stanford was second. But the problem is, it is very unlikely I am getting a place at MIT

I got rejected from Oxford CS pre-interview but I am unsure why. I had a predicted of 44/45 IB (777 HL), around 60 on MAT 1 and 8/10 on MAT 2, I also finished Calculus by 9th grade officially (supercurricular) and also qualified for math competitions like the AIME. I am fine with the rejection but why do I think I was rejected?

Next life make sure to be born to a billionaire, royalty, tycoon, leader of industry, child of academic excellency or a celeb and maybe you can join lmao

any news from mit, stanford, and oxofrd?