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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?
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just out of interest to potential applicants, why do you want to transfer?
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
Oh dear. Final nail in the coffin I think.
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
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
) 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.
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!
If you mean Stuart, anyway, yes he got in.
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
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!
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