University of Oxford offer-holders' thread 2015

Lol, apparently I'm the first person that my school can remember whose ever gotten into Oxford.

Ah. You're the first person off TSR I've met in real life albeit accidentally !

Thank-you! Do you have an offer for St John's too? (hopefully!)

Nope, pooled to St Catz. Had interviews there so makes sense.

Ahh, it's a shame you won't be at St John's, but well done for getting an offer! Hopefully see you in October

Thank you! See you then! Good luck for the last few months of A-levels

Is there a Facebook group?

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I searched and found this group


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I would avoid joining that. There's nothing official about it. It makes me rather suspicious when things that aren't official claim to be.

Offer from Christ Church//Engineering

Disbelief to be honest, I couldn't define a bloody radian in my interview. Anyone find it funny that we get cleaners for our rooms ?

Same! I think I read through the whole prospectus (including for science courses, which I definitely couldn't have applied for ) quite a few times, plus I have probably spent more time on the Oxford Admissions website since Yr 10 than it would take to actually complete the course itself

I noticed that too! It's funny though, because during interviews quite a few other applicants told me that they hadn't realised that this course existed, and that they might have considered it if they had.

Same! I remember when I was in Oxford when I was 8 or something, I 'decided' I was going to go there (probably mainly because His Dark Materials is set there). When I was in Year 10 (I think) for some reason I just started obsessively browsing the Oxford website and I remember exactly what piece of music I was listening to at that time. I replayed it when I got my offer

I think that's one of the problems with 'niche' subjects. I didn't even know that Earth Sciences existed until I found it in the Oxford prospectus... and thank God for that, it changed my life! There are so many interesting small subjects like Materials Science or Human Sciences or Arch&Anth or CompSciPhil that most people haven't even heard of.

current Oxford students - are Catz and Hilda's still at war with Magdalen?

Is it a problem if you're not on Facebook? I'm not a member and I seriously do not want to join Facebook but I don't want to miss out on any important information...

Is it a problem if you're not on Facebook? I'm not a member and I seriously do not want to join Facebook but I don't want to miss out on any important information...