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Transferring from Oxford to Cambridge

Is it remotely possible to transfer mid-course, say after the first set of exams? Or would you have to reapply and start from scratch?

Thanks.

Reply 1

hobnob

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splatr

Is it remotely possible to transfer mid-course, say after the first set of exams? Or would you have to reapply and start from scratch?

Thanks.

As both universities don't normally allow transfers, I'd say no. You'd have to reapply.

Reply 2

Helenia

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Also given that the courses are generally very different, it'd be pretty much impossible. It's not a case of two places offering exactly the same stuff.

Reply 3

username80328

just out of interest to potential applicants, why do you want to transfer?

Reply 4

ravenous_soup_dragon

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I met someone at my English interview in 2005 at Pembroke who was in a similar situation: he was studying Law at Cambridge and tried to switch to English there, but they wouldn't let him so he dropped out, and reapplied to English at Oxford instead. He said that there was no way Oxford would let him transfer straight over - he'd have to go back to the beginning. I thought it was pretty brave of him - he was a second year who had left all his friends to start afresh and there was no guarantee he'd get in that year at Pembroke either.

Reply 5

Epicurus

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So did he get in?

Reply 6

Drogue

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As said, you'd have to reapply. Transfers don't happen.

Reply 7

ravenous_soup_dragon

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Epicurus

So did he get in?

I don't know - I didn't that year. He said he was quite happy going to Middlesex or something if he didn't - although he said that his parents might kill him, after leaving Cambridge. I thought it was really refreshing tbh, there are so many nutty people at interview who are all 'OOOOH I MUST MUST MUST GET INTO OXFORD OR ELSE!'

Incidently, there was a girl I met at interview this year (a post applicant, like me) who was incredibly pissed that her interview didn't go very well and her and her mother spent the whole interview period stalking the admissions tutor to see if she could have another chance..... :s-smilie:

Reply 8

Teebs

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Her mother was with her at interviews... Oh dear...

Reply 9

Phil.Murray

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ravenous_soup_dragon

Incidently, there was a girl I met at interview this year (a post applicant, like me) who was incredibly pissed that her interview didn't go very well and her and her mother spent the whole interview period stalking the admissions tutor to see if she could have another chance..... :s-smilie:

Oh dear. Final nail in the coffin I think.

Reply 10

Jonesy_LJ

Lol why on earth would people do that? What sort of thought process would you have to go through?

*hhhmmm I need this person to like me in order to get in. What can I do to endear myself to them? I know! I'll stalk them accompanied by family members!*

Reply 11

chocolatebear

theoretically you can transfer after 3 years in medicine, since the pre clinical and clinical courses are separate, i dunno how often that happens though

Reply 12

Drogue

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That happens a lot, but that's not a transfer. The clinical is a postgrad programme, so it's like doing a BA at one and then an MPhil or PhD at the other.

Reply 13

Helenia

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Drogue

That happens a lot, but that's not a transfer. The clinical is a postgrad programme, so it's like doing a BA at one and then an MPhil or PhD at the other.

It's fairly common - around 25-30 Cam students go to Ox (fewer the other way round, but that's just because we have more students :p:

) each year - but it's a separate (graduate) course; you couldn't transfer from 1st year Med at one to 2nd year at the other.

Reply 14

Elles

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Drogue

That happens a lot, but that's not a transfer. The clinical is a postgrad programme, so it's like doing a BA at one and then an MPhil or PhD at the other.

To get another bachelors - albeit in an exciting 'M' & 'Ch'. Bring on the bonus MA... :p:

Reply 15

Helenia

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Elles

To get another bachelors - albeit in an exciting 'M' & 'Ch'. Bring on the bonus MA... :p:

I'm mostly excited cos on MA day we get to wear our nice pink fluffy hoods while everyone else is in boring black & white BA ones :biggrin:

Reply 16

Elles

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Helenia

I'm mostly excited cos on MA day we get to wear our nice pink fluffy hoods while everyone else is in boring black & white BA ones :biggrin:

Why must you torment me with the fact I should have chosen '-Bridge' for this very purpose?! :bawling:

Reply 17

shinyhappy

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ravenous_soup_dragon

I met someone at my English interview in 2005 at Pembroke who was in a similar situation: he was studying Law at Cambridge and tried to switch to English there, but they wouldn't let him so he dropped out, and reapplied to English at Oxford instead. He said that there was no way Oxford would let him transfer straight over - he'd have to go back to the beginning. I thought it was pretty brave of him - he was a second year who had left all his friends to start afresh and there was no guarantee he'd get in that year at Pembroke either.

How odd, I was just about to post about that guy, he got in anyway!

Reply 18

shinyhappy

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If you mean Stuart, anyway, yes he got in.

Reply 19

ravenous_soup_dragon

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shinyhappy

How odd, I was just about to post about that guy, he got in anyway!

Ahh...I thought his name was Stuart!! Excellent - I've kind of been wondering about whether he did or not for a year! I'm really glad he did, he definitely seemed a person with his head screwed on unlike the rest of us...I needed the extra year to mature myself and apply for a subject I actually wanted to do :tongue:

Haha with the girl this year I think she kind of decided that all bets were off (because she was a reapplicant like me, so no reapplying there) and that she would stalk with her mum in desperation. Actually she expressed surprise at the fact that people don't stay with their mums at Oxford interviews because Cambrige ones parents tend to go with their offspring (?) I felt really sorry for her tbh, I loved St. Anne's and I would have been devastated if my interviews had been as crap as my Pembroke one the year before (the tutors were brutal - as other TSR members have testified) I felt a bit done over at Pembroke because I only had one horrible 20 min interview and she had one 20 min one with the Oriental Studies faculty who also ripped her to shreds.

Sorry that last bit is a bit off topic btw - but I'm so glad that Stuart got in! :smile:

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