Oxford medicine applicants 2017

Btw, can Oxford make you stay another day for more interviews, or is that just for other courses? Because I have an interview at Newcastle on Wednesday.

Not for medicine no.

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How did your interviews go?

When do we hear back from colleges about offers??

Well, it's really hard to guess. I found them fairly interesting but I know that some of them did not at all go well...
What about you?

I found them so difficult!! I got so many questions wrong...

January 11th

Thanks, how do you know this?

I heard they used to give out decisions almost as soon as they made them but they moved it to January as it was ruining people's Christmases! They're trying to be nice really

Lol. It would be the opposite wouldn't it? Keeping people in limbo ruins your Christmas, surely?

All decisions will be made I think today for you guys? And they used to send out all decisions by Friday, but it was a huge strain on the administrators and I think a few mistakes may have been made (oops) and that's the actual reason its moved to after Christmas, I believe.

As an aside: Oxford are also seriously fast at exam marking. For medical finals, you get your result two hours after the last exam. Its quite a day

I heard they used to give out decisions almost as soon as they made them but they moved it to January as it was ruining people's Christmases! They're trying to be nice really

If they like you you should be fine. The BMAT is really just a hurdle to get to interview and scores seem really random. If you did well for your school you should be fine

Agreed. Oxford seems using a systematic approach of pA* and BMAT adjusted scores in shortlisting candidates. Indeed, from the previous posts, some failed to be shortlisted with high scores and some can get interview place with low scores (combined 58%). Scores seem really random.

How did we all find the interviews? My first one was horrific but the other three I found okay... so yeah. I don't know really. I think my chances of getting in are very slim.

But they do look at the BMAT scores after they decide upon the initial rankings after the interviews

Same. My first one was beyond awful, but I felt I did better with each successive interview (practice I guess?). My first interview will definitely rule me out from my first college. My final interview could help for my second college but there were so many strong candidates on the day so ... a very small chance.




Where did you get this info from? I thought it was totally based on interview performance