DPhil college places

Fluffy or anyone - can you tell me why not St Cross?

Unfortunately I got a place there... and I'm in the same boat as the others about having to find private accommodation.

I'm starting my MPhil in October. Is it possible to change colleges when I transfer on to the DPhil?

There's not usually an option to transfer unless your D.Phil and M.Phil are descrete - ie you do an MPhil and then start a D.Phil from scratch. If you're registered on a D.Phil programme as a PRS, the transfer viva is *just* a departmental thing, and not an oportunity to change anything.

St Cross isn't bad as such - it's just very small and doesn't have a lot of money. You do have a punt though

You would be able to change colleges between your MPhil and DPhil because you have to re-apply in effect. Changing colleges during one course is extremely rare though. You would have to have a very good reason I expect. 'I want to go to an old college' is not enough.

I have never heard of a college housing students from another college except occasionally undergrads with summer jobs working for the admissions office/summer schools are housed in different colleges.

I think you should stop whinging. Sooooooo many people are rejected. You are lucky you got in. If you cannot face going to St Cross, withdraw now and let someone else have the place.

You would be able to change colleges between your MPhil and DPhil because you have to re-apply in effect. Changing colleges during one course is extremely rare though. You would have to have a very good reason I expect. 'I want to go to an old college' is not enough.

I have never heard of a college housing students from another college except occasionally undergrads with summer jobs working for the admissions office/summer schools are housed in different colleges.

I think you should stop whinging. Sooooooo many people are rejected. You are lucky you got in. If you cannot face going to St Cross, withdraw now and let someone else have the place.

Sorry, you're right - the MPhil does not automatically lead to a DPhil. I'd have to reapply or get permission from my department. Would I be able to change colleges then?

How many punts do the bigger, richer colleges have?

Question about colleges: do they only/mostly take postgrads who have similar research interests as Fellows at the college? Can/will they accept students who could be studying the same subject as a Fellow or two but not exactly the same research area? e.g. Fellows specialize in British and French history but student's interest is African history.

My future advisor is a Fellow at St Cross so it would all work out nice and dandy except that I'd really love to go to an older, larger college. Is there any way I could still enter the pool now to try get into another college? Would this be really horrible?

If come Sept and still can't get a room at St Cross, and say I hear of available rooms at another college. Would it be possible to contact that college and ask if I could have one of the rooms? If so - would it still be possible to transfer colleges or would that be too late?

Thanks very much!

Bloody hell, my application is *still* at Christ Church. Is that a good sign or a bad sign?

I have the creeping suspicion that my application is slowly growing mould in a locked filing cabinet somewhere...

Oxford sucks!