Oxford Applicants for 2012 Entry

When you go to interview at your chosen college, or the college selected for you if you made an open application, everyone will be assigned one other college where you will have at least one other interview.
For instance, I applied to Keble, but also had an interview at University College because everyone has at least one somewhere else.

That's not actually true. Some people are only interviewed by one college. Last year, a friend and I were both interviewed at Balliol but nowhere else. I don't know how they determine who gets interviewed at a second college. He got an offer and I didn't, so I don't think it has anything to do with how well you perform.

It may depend on the subject, but certainly for Computer Science what I said holds true.
EDIT: And the person I was addressing is applying for Maths and Computer Science.

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/admissions/ugrad/Frequently_asked_questions#Why_do_I_have_interviews_in_two_different_colleges.3F

Does anyone know when decisions go out if you applied by the 15th October (not sure if that date is just for Scottish applicants), on the website all I could find was a "around the end of January" deadline if you'd applied by some date in november. I'm probably being an idiot, far too worked up.

The Oxford application was due October 15th for all applicants. I believe you find out about whether you've recieved an interview around the middle of November. The interviews take place in the weeks preceding Christmas and then the results are sent out before they leave for Christmas break. You should then receive it end of December/beginning of January, depending on how long the mail takes.

In the UK, you should find out before Christmas (unless we have huge amounts of snow, like happened last year but in that case they may well email)

In the UK, you should find out before Christmas (unless we have huge amounts of snow, like happened last year but in that case they may well email)

Oh god, the snow last year was AWFUL! I hope like hell it doesn't happen again....

Oh god, the snow last year was AWFUL! I hope like hell it doesn't happen again....

haha I can see there being even more snow than we had last year

That makes me feel a little bit better!

At the moment I have just been flicking through a grammar book aimlessly. I feel like it is not adding more to what I know, I want to actually do some practice ones but I have nowhere to get them from :/

At least if it snows this year they'll know to just email us

haha I can see there being even more snow than we had last year

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Did you make an open application?

When you go to interview at your chosen college, or the college selected for you if you made an open application, everyone will be assigned one other college where you will have at least one other interview.
For instance, I applied to Keble, but also had an interview at University College because everyone has at least one somewhere else.

As far as I know you cannot change your college after you have applied, but then again I never looked into it. You can look on the website/email admissions and they will be able to give you a clear answer.

Where is my acknowledgement -_-

OMG i LOVE the picture in your sig!!



no no I'm just worrying if my college will be changed one day because I don't want it to change... they said in the acknowledgement that my college is already confirmed, but I wonder if it means it won't change no matter what or it's still subject to change, because I really don't want to change college...

oh will international applicants be interviewed 2x too, if they choose to be interviewed through phone?

If you get invited for an interview, you will be interviewed at your selected college. However, you might get interviews at other colleges and might receive an offer from another college if your college will not be able to offer you a place (if it has too many qualified candidates). So yes, you can be moved to another college, but it either that or not Oxford at all..

will that be the case for internationals who can't make it to the UK, too?

Well academically can be assumed, all the tutors are preposterously good at something in their field, and generally across the board.

They were just really nice, interesting, and engaging.
The questions were tough obviously, but were interesting. My Univ interview was the only one where we discussed the areas of CS that are of interest to me, but in an academic capacity. In that, it wasn't just like "What are you interested in" as an icebreaker, the maths and logic problems were set around areas of particular interest to me. It was very enjoyable, and I learned a lot.

I'm pretty sure.. The interview process shouldn't change because of that.. Although, I might be wrong

I actually wonder how long interviews are and how many (academic) questions they ask. anyone knows where to find more info on this? I'm applying for Maths&CS if that's relevant.