University of Oxford offer-holders' thread 2015

Medicine, but the accelerated course how about you?

Yes, it's incredibly expensive for Oxford to interview but they know they're necessary. There are actually multiple meetings held throughout the year at Oxford where leading professors and other people (generally people high up in the admin side of Oxford who know what they're doing - usually statisticians/researchers) to discuss literally every aspect of the current admissions process from admissions tests to the logistics of interviewing people (and how effective these methods are) - so it's always amusing when people ask these kinds of questions, as if Oxford started using this admissions process 400 years ago and they keep forgetting to schedule a meeting to talk about updating it.

an applicant wrote an article in the Nottingham Post criticising the interview system - but idk, I get that the interview system is slow, but Oxford are very aware of that and they generally seemed to try and make it quicker for the applicants wherever they could?

Subject: Physics
College: St Hugh's
Outcome: Offer
Conditions: A*AA, A* in any of maths, further maths or physics
How did you hear? (email/letter/phone/owl): letter
How do you feel? surprised! and a little sad as I won't actually be accepting the offer

Optional extras:
Name: Lauren

Hello fellow physicist!!


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Hello fellow physicist!!


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At least four people from my school now have Oxford offers which is pretty impressive (double last year's number I think) for a comprehensive! We don't usually get so many, particularly not in the sciences.

I'm the only one I don't think anyone expected me to get an offer bc i'm so lazy (y)

Hi! I've been watching this thread for a while and decided to post because I just saw your comment saying that you were intrrviewed at Brasenose for medicine? I was there from 14th-16th for psychology so I reckon you must have been there at the same time as me! And while I'm at it, I don't know how your open offer from Queen's could have come about, but I'm going to take a complete guess and say that maybe Brasenose had underwritten too many offers, and seeing as Queen's is bigger they may have had space to underwrite people from other colleges that didn't have enough room? Like I say, that's a complete guess as I don't know how the system works, but it's the only explanation I can think of.

For the record, I have an open offer from Brasenose for psychology - A*AA at the moment I'm studying psychology, biology and Spanish. Would love to hear from anyone else who was interviewed at Brasenose/Somerville for psychology!

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Hey there! which college have you applied for/had an offer from?

I'm the only person from my school who applied, so everyone's really pleased we haven't sent anyone to Oxbridge in years :P

YAY!! Physicist!! And merton. Congratulations!!


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Just wondering, is there anybody with an offer who will not be firming Oxford?


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Well done! Are you getting an awful lot of admiration from your peers?

Sort of... I'm quite a quiet person on the whole so the attention is a bit embarrassing! It's lovely to have so much support though - everyone's been great

Yes we must have been! I loved Brasenose so much, there was such a buss about the JCR and everyone was lovely Thank you, yeah that would make sense!! Congratulations with your offer too! Maybe we'll even end up at the same college who knows