The 2017 Oxford Decisions Discussion Thread

There was a classics student that got into Merton in the other thread

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Thank you!! Where's the other thread?

Hi I got an offer for Maths+Compsci

I had 10 A*s and 2 As at GCSE.

Subject: PPL (Philosophy and Linguistics)
College: Brasenose
Outcome: Offer on condition of grade 5 in AP Japanese and AP Statistics
How did you find out: Email
How do you feel: my heart won't stop beating at an above average pace

Anyone from Merton? Lonely 😥😥

subject: chemistry
college: Keble
outcome: Unconditional offer
feeling: Super excited to move to the UK

Subject: Law
College: Merton
Outcome: Offer conditional on AAA at A level
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): Email at 10.45 GMT on the 11th
How do you feel?: Ecstatic.

It's not good practice to share your exact interview questions but Oxford do have some example questions on their website (There is a page with questions from all different departments and also some more questions on the computer science website I believe) which were very similar in style to the questions I got asked.

Good luck for your application!

Hey can I PM you?

How do you feel?: Like absolute crap tbh. I didn't even realize how much I'd built my identity around getting in to Oxford. It was the thing that made me push myself beyond my limits and the thing I daydreamed about when things got hard. I've never felt more at home anywhere and I've never wanted anything more. I worked so hard and in my opinion my application was competitive and I had a real chance of getting in but... Now it's all just suddenly blown apart.

Subject: Medicine
College: Merton
Outcome: rejection
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): email
How do you feel?: Like absolute crap tbh. I didn't even realize how much I'd built my identity around getting in to Oxford. It was the thing that made me push myself beyond my limits and the thing I daydreamed about when things got hard. I've never felt more at home anywhere and I've never wanted anything more. I worked so hard and in my opinion my application was competitive and I had a real chance of getting in but... Now it's all just suddenly blown apart.

Jesus Christ, you too? I feel this in my soul. A part of me knows that it's grades (how many applicants don't have GCSEs and only AABB at AS??) so luckily it's something I can work towards (getting A*A*A*A, as my predicted was A*A*AA and was still rejected). But still, it hurts a lot.

My mom says '**** em, **** em' and whilst I agree with her boldness/bravado, it's much harder when you know how hard you've worked and how far you've come.

I suppose the only condolences for us is that at least being rejected now we know that we weren't the most appropriate/best fit for the courses we applied to. And maybe we will be happier somewhere else, and more successful. Much better than being given an offer and not meeting it or dropping out (as a number do each year).

[I keep looking at the MSt requirements.......I should stop doing that]