Getting into Oxbridge for Postgraduate Study

ha ha ha ha...wassup alfie? nice name.
I had a goldfish called alfie once.

I intend hopefully to apply next year for the comparative government course + will be working with NGOs, MPs in Parliament for the next six months, along with other political things. Do oxford or cambridge ask for an example of your work ?

Oh my goodness, I didn't even realise there was a postgrad forum...
Now do I feel stupid

Feel free to join our bitching about the 14-year-old aspiring accountant on the Cambridge forum.

Slightly off-topic, but that thread seems to have turned into a little bit of a slanging match...

Hello,

Im not in here for any advice into applying at Oxbridge for postgrad, but the OP of this thread has been made into a Wiki page here.. If the links in the thread are updated, could they also be updated in the Wiki too, in case myself, RK, or anyone else doesn't spot them?

Ta very much

Hmm, to be honest, I think some of those threads aren't really as helpful and authoritative as the wiki format makes them look. This thread, for example, is listed under "subject specific threads", so people reading the wiki article will most likely assume that it will contain specific information about applying for postgraduate degrees in English. But unfortunately it doesn't. It's just a thread in which somebody considering a joint undergraduate degree was asking whether he would have a chance of being accepted for a postgraduate degree in English - and the replies he got were rather woolly and hardly English-specific.

I know, but wouldn't it be much better (in the long run, anyway) to turn the actually relevant bits of information into a proper coherent wiki article instead of just having a long list of links to threads which may or may not contain useful information? Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising you. My point is just that people respond differently to this sort of post when it's a post and when it's been wikified. In a forum thread, I'll put up with a post that's a little meandering and not always to the point, but from a wiki article I tend to expect a lot more in terms of clarity, relevance and accuracy. So I'm not sure whether wikifying threads like this one is really the way forward...

The wiki article is good in the sense that now all those links are there people will at least be able to find the threads that may be relevant.

If you have any ideas for an article that you feel would add to the post graduate section of the wiki then you could make a start on it yourself. If you don't have time to do that (which would be completely understandable as most people are very busy) then if would be great if you could post your idea for the article and what would be included in it in the about wiki subforum as then hopefully someone else will see it and be inspired and create the article for you

Fair enough, but they could have found them through a simple forum search, no?

Well, my idea would be to rewrite the article so it actually contains the information you're led to believe it contains by looking at the table of contents...

Not if they wanted to find information on a wide range of topics searching for a thread on each and sorting through the results could take days. You have to remember that this is just a starting point it is going to be added to over time. Eventually hopefully some of the links will link to articles some to comprehensive posts. This particular wiki article is currently working as a kind of index directing people to the relevant information.

If you think that the article contains some links which aren't relevant then please let me know which ones specifically so that I can look into fixing it (which may mean removal or finding another source).