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The 2017 Oxford Decisions Discussion Thread

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Reply 280
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Roju
Original post by emfran19
I'm doing chemistry at Keble! What country do you live in?


Im from Norway :smile:
Reply 281
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kexout
i'm an international applicant from singapore. i did my interview through skype.

subject: geography
college: open (originally st catz)
outcome: conditional offer
how did you find out?: harry potter style, a howler! just kidding, they sent an email.
how do you feel?: puzzled, baffled, shocked- but appreciative
(edited 7 years ago)
Original post by StationToStation
Oh you got an offer???!! Congratulations I'm so happy for you!


thank you so much! <3 I feel really awful that you didn't get one-- i was really rooting for you, fablereader & wolfmoon :frown: I know that comforting words are useless, but I hope you feel better soon, and are happy with whatever uni you choose to go to!
Reply 283
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halq
Subject: Law
College: Keble
Outcome: Conditional offer, AAA
How did you find out? After my postman didn't come today and yesterday I called Keble and they emailed me!
How do you feel? SO shocked and happy!! Never in a million years expected I could get into Oxford! Dream come true :smile:
Original post by tchaikovskyed
thank you so much! <3 I feel really awful that you didn't get one-- i was really rooting for you, fablereader & wolfmoon :frown: I know that comforting words are useless, but I hope you feel better soon, and are happy with whatever uni you choose to go to!


Thanks :hugs:
Original post by StationToStation
Yeah you're right, I know that if I manage to get in somewhere then I don't need to worry about my future too much. I just really really love Oxford so getting rejected hurts. I know it'll get better though. :smile:


Fair enough mate - just don't let it knock you down and affect your performance in exams/revision etc. You'll get plenty of other opportunities; but I know how you feel really, although the uni Im waiting on (most likely gonna get rejected by) isnt as good lol (bath) so im probs gonna feel a bit like this haahah
Subject: Physics (4 year MPhys)
College: St Edmund Hall
Outcome: Offer for AAB in Scottish Advanced Highers
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): Letter (it didn't come in the post yesterday so I had to wait until today)
How do you feel?: Ecstatic! Unfortunately I have a Physics mock exam/prelim tomorrow though so I'm going to have to get back to studying :smile:
(edited 7 years ago)
Reply 287
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ruqayah
Law
Univ
AAA conditional
Email
Original post by azizadil1998
Fair enough mate - just don't let it knock you down and affect your performance in exams/revision etc. You'll get plenty of other opportunities; but I know how you feel really, although the uni Im waiting on (most likely gonna get rejected by) isnt as good lol (bath) so im probs gonna feel a bit like this haahah


I won't! I'll be alright. Best of luck with Bath, I'm sure you'll get an offer. :smile:
Subject: Medicine
College: Wadham
Outcome: A*A*A offer
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): E-mail
How do you feel?: Cried a lot
Subject: Law
College: Wadham
Outcome: Conditional offer
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): Telephone call from one of the Law tutors
How do you feel?: In total shock, completely elated, was not expecting it at all
Original post by CircleBanana
Subject: Medicine
College: Wadham
Outcome: A*A*A offer
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): E-mail
How do you feel?: Cried a lot

Congrats!! Medicine at Oxford, wow!
Great to see another Wadham 🎉🎉🎉
Original post by tchaikovskyed
thank you so much! <3 I feel really awful that you didn't get one-- i was really rooting for you, fablereader & wolfmoon :frown: I know that comforting words are useless, but I hope you feel better soon, and are happy with whatever uni you choose to go to!

I think everyone watching the Oxford threads were rooting for them, brought so much to the whole community, heart broken for you all but I'll know three such kind and bright people will be absolutely fine, and take the world by storm wherever they go
Original post by StationToStation
I won't! I'll be alright. Best of luck with Bath, I'm sure you'll get an offer. :smile:


Thanks:smile:
Subject: Geography
College: Christ Church
Outcome: Conditional Offer
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): Email
How do you feel?: I used to feel like trash. Now I feel like Oxford trash.
Reply 295
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k0g
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International applicant from Singapore!

Subject: Engineering
College: St Hilda's
Outcome: Conditional offer
How did you find out? (Email/Letter/Owl): Email
How do you feel?: Pretty Happy :smile:
Original post by Harvey'sLaw
Congrats!! Medicine at Oxford, wow!
Great to see another Wadham 🎉🎉🎉


Wadham the best.
Original post by StationToStation
Ah oh no :frown: are you thinking of reapplying if you get the grades?

I don't even know what it was for me. In my A2 equivalent exams I got 7777777 while they want 7766. My admissions test score put me in the top 5 people or so in the 1500 that applied. Everyone who read my personal statement said that it was really well-written and mature etc. I had four Oxbridge-style mocks and two of them said I had almost nothing to improve on and two of them said I was good. I'm genuinely really passionate about my subject. Like... was everyone else absolutely perfect? Did I mess up my interviews that bad without noticing it myself?

Yeah my mum got a bit angry at Oxford too lol. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I feel like defending them. Feeling pissed doesn't help with the pain of not having an offer though.

Yep you might be right. Maybe we just dodged a bullet, maybe Oxford just wasn't for us after all.


I might do. If I do get A*A*A*/A*A*A (and yea, I know the requirement is AAA but let's face it w 88% of offer holders getting at least one A* you gotta have these kinds of grades if post-results) I have a couple options.

I could 1) take a gap year and reapply, which I don't really feel like doing. I'm keen to get into university and actually start my life (which, for me involves transitioning and moving away from parents etc). If something major happens (parents suddenly accept me, find a great internship) I might think about that.

2) apply via UCAS, get a reference from my old teacher and apply whilst at Durham/Birmingham. I'd probably only be able to apply to Oxford if I did this (Cam don't like it) and would try to make it as discreet as possible. This is what I feel most pulled too if I don't like Durham or Birmingham for whatever reason (because let's face it they don't like people who just drop out, even if it's because it wasn't challenging enough or whatever).

3) focus on my undergraduate studies, find a research area/topic I'm interested in, see if that matches any potential supervisors, find a way to get funding and apply to the MSt course. The MSt course looks really awesome and it would be a great opportunity - after three years of Durham/Birmingham with a less intense workload, more time to have paid commission work on the side if it pops up, maybe a more fun 'uni' experience - I'd study with tutors who specialise in the field. However, I'd have to think about what other masters courses or jobs to apply to if I didn't get a First/2.1.

And if I don't get A*A*A then I will just do option 3). Honestly, it might give me the best of both worlds: I can get more support at Durham/Brum (I hear the mental health support at Oxbridge is quite lacking), have more free time for working with productions etc and build up maybe some research things and then get the 'Oxbridge' experience and the CV-boosting thing that goes with it. That sounds pretty awesome to me!! :cool:

Did you go to a private school by any chance? I know a person who got rejected for History with 8A*2A GCSE + AAAA AS + top HAT score. I don't think he would have interviewed badly although he might have been overconfident.

I'm feeling a lot better about it now. I knew I would. People get over all kinds of things (I got over getting splashed by a massive brown puddled yesterday - that really ruined my morning!). My teacher told me about friends he had that got rejected that are now Lecturers/Professors at Bath, UCL, Imperial etc. That helped a lot. And maybe you're right, maybe we would have been struggling to make a 2.2. I'd much rather take my 2.1/first from Durham thanks :tongue:

Hey you never know, one of the people who teaches in the Music Faculty at Oxford went to Brooklyn College which would be a middling university by TSR standards (and pretty much unknown outside of NY). I would love to be that guy who gets rejected, gets on the MSt or DPhil and then teaches there xDD They always say success is the best revenge. >:]
Original post by Sherlock1616
If I might ask, what ap classes have you taken prior to the Japanese and Statistics? This is another hopeful applicant form the U.S. I'm hoping to get in in 2019.


I took Calc AB, US History, Human Geography, and Music Theory all at grade 5. I think that might be a bit excessive though, so I'm actually wondering why I have the high conditions.
I am an international student who was rejected by a Oxford (post interview) but accepted by KCL/Durham/UCL.

1. Is it possible to reapply next year, while studying at another Uni (no gap year)?

2. Do U.K. schools have transfers or do you apply to start the whole degree again?

3. Is there anything different in reapplying as a uni student (like a higher standard)?

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