Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

*4 people each year.

In vino veritas!

yeah I wish that was enough. I have been getting very positive feedback throughout the year, I even presented a paper at a postgraduate conference, my proposal was a topic very important for my subject, my supervisor really wanted to work with me etc etc + I already had the AHRC and I still did not get it for a PhD. I did not do anything "wrong", it's just that when there are way more people than places you just cannot know. And it is weird cause last year it was Cambridge that did not offer me anything, and now it's the opposite.

So I was notified by the Dep't I applied to that I wasn't accepted, rejected or waitlisted. They said that "we are as yet unable to inform you of our decision. This is because although your application has been assessed, a decision has not yet been confirmed." Has anyone heard anything similar to this? Good or bad thing? Thanks for any help.

The amount of AHRC funding available is apparently quite a bit less this year (not that there was a lot before), so I'm sure it's more about that than about anything you did/didn't do. I'm really sorry, though. Good luck with CHESS.

oh really? is this just in Oxford or in general? and do you know why? what department are you?

Thank you for your kind words though I really do hope for Cambridge as they gave me an amazing supervisor.

Hi everyone!

I've applied for a DPhil by the November deadline and received an acceptance letter from the department by late January. Two days ago I decided to email the college of my preference since it was the tenth week without hearing a word from a college.

Yesterday I received a response saying the delay was due to an error in the University computer system, so my application wasn't available to the college.

In the afternoon, I received an acceptance email in which the amount required as financial guarantee was indicated. I'm expected to return the financial guarantee form by 20th June 2012.

I'm now wondering if I've been considered for the Clarendon fund or for the other scholarship I've applied to.

I also have another doubt. I'm expecting to get funding in my home country, but the results will only be available in August/September. Can I use the resources of a relative as a financial guarantee and then, if don't get the scholarship, decline the offer in August/September? Do I have to pay anything meanwhile?

Sorry for the length of this post.

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know if colleges require an acceptance sooner than the stated faculty deadline? I listed my term time address in my application, but will be at home for the next three weeks. Just don't want a letter with a college offer to go ignored for three weeks and me miss some kind of internal acceptance deadline!

lol, nunc est bibendum

(but to forget, not to celebrate )

You studied Economics? There is an Economics paper you can take.

I expect I'll completely humiliate myself in the exam but if one does not try one does not succeed!

So anyone else still waiting on their possible Political Science offer?!

Based on gradcafe I conclude that IR offers have been out, but cannot find any news on the msc/ mphil in Political Theory and Political Science. Anyone over here already received an offer?

So anyone else still waiting on their possible Political Science offer?!

Based on gradcafe I conclude that IR offers have been out, but cannot find any news on the msc/ mphil in Political Theory and Political Science. Anyone over here already received an offer?

yep same here

I have an offer for the MPhil: Political Theory. I was told about it accidentally by Oxford's Accommodation Office, and the Department itself confirmed the offer when I emailed them.

It's nice to know I'm accepted, but I'm going to decline the offer in favour of LSE once I get the official letter. I reckon someone on the waiting list wants this more than I do.

So when do you guys expect the 'real' offers to go out? Or do you think @Ruire, that most people that have been accepted already have been cobtacted?

The department seemed to indicate they will try to contact everyone until the 30th of March (this is based on the replies two people here got when they directly contacted the politics department). I am stuck between the wish to contact them regarding my application directly and the notion that perhaps I shouldn't bother them if they're seemingly having delays.

Nah I visited the Politics and IR department when I was in Oxford and I spoke to a lady who works at the reception - she told me they can't give me any information about my specific application but that responses are being sent out this week (02.04-06.04) so there is still significant hope. You (we, rather) should also have our spirits lifted by the fact that thegradcafe results (for IR at least) listed only rejections for the MPhil (although one or two acceptances for the PhD) so perhaps they are sending rejections first. Perhaps there is no method at all to the madness and we are over-analyzing it.
Obesa non cantatur.

ok, currently a bit too surprised to understand what this means, but got an email from the graduate funding administrator saying that my application for Weidenfeld scholarship is "currently being considered". They wouldn't be doing this unless I had been offered a place on the course or would they? (seriously, why are they doing everything backwards?)