Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

On my strand the course conveners' 'supervision' loads are unevenly divided for administrative reasons, but like I said it's mostly an administrative convenience. We do have individual meetings with both conveners, once in the autumn to discuss dissertations and supervisors (you can suggest a supervisor), and then once in the spring to go over the results from the first C Course essay -- and possibly there'll be another post mortem for the spring essays in Trinity, I don't know about that.

The real business end has been my dissertation supervision; my supervisor is also my potential DPhil supervisor, and we're in what I think is fairly close contact -- a couple of email exchanges a week, at least. Formal dissertation-related supervisions are meant to be limited to four over the whole course, but I have also had perhaps half-a-dozen sustained one-to-one chats over all sorts of academic stuff with my supervisor. But from what I hear levels of supervision are pretty variable: I think to some extent I got lucky in terms of what I'm interested in.

I think most of us decided our B Course topics (though not the exact titles) early in the spring. Everyone worried about it, which is natural, but -- touch wood, because I haven't had the mark for the essay back yet! -- it isn't too bad. It's just an exciting new set of skills, and at least on my strand our teachers were keen to give examples of good topics and made an effort to check everyone's ideas before we actually handed our titles in. I suppose as a medievalist I have a tribal obligation to remark here that if you're not doing the medieval strand you might be intimidated by your B Course but really shouldn't be: at most, you only have one or two centuries of book production to master!

I noticed this morning that the Weidenfeld page states this:

'All candidates who have been shortlisted for interview have now been contacted.'
http://www.ox.ac.uk/feesandfunding/prospectivegrad/scholarships/university/weidenfeld/

Did not receive any news as well. Sad times, but I might still be pulling Oxford off by combining a massive student loan at home and support from my family.

Thanks that's good to know! I do find the B-course a bit daunting due to unfamiliarity no doubt. One or two centuries sound all right (the long 18th century spans over most of that anyway ), but bibliography?? *shudder*

In addition to what has been said:
You can not apply for University accommodation until you are accepted by the college.

Anyone know if someone got accepted by two graduate courses, will the college offer be the same?
I have an college offer from one of the courses but have to wait till late april to know the admission result for the other one(Two courses are under the same department)
I called the graduate office, and the staff said that I should get offer from the same college for both courses. But when I contact the college of my first course, they said that two applications are sepearately considered, and it cant't be guaranteed that I can have offer from this college for that second course.
I am really confused now
Anyone know the answer or anyone here has the same experience/problems?

Thanks that's good to know! I do find the B-course a bit daunting due to unfamiliarity no doubt. One or two centuries sound all right (the long 18th century spans over most of that anyway ), but bibliography?? *shudder*

Btw everyone, am I imagining things or has this thread suddenly assumed another name?

Probably channelling my fiancé (who is a third year Early Modern English DPhil student), but.... bibliography is really important!!

R.e. the name, I'm not sure! Did it used to be 'applicants'? Or am I getting confused with the Cambridge thread?

I'm surprised the uni agrees to sending the decision letter as a .pdf in an email upon an applicant's request, yet colleges stick to a no-communication-unless-by-post measure. Definitely agree, it seems troublesome to non-UK students, and even ones who are: most UK unis were just on their Easter breaks, and many headed home to other parts of the UK or abroad, while correspondence sat at their term-term address. I guess it's not a huge problem unless in a college letter there is some kind of looming date by which you need to confirm you accept your place there?

Probably channelling my fiancé (who is a third year Early Modern English DPhil student), but.... bibliography is really important!!

R.e. the name, I'm not sure! Did it used to be 'applicants'? Or am I getting confused with the Cambridge thread?

Yes I'm sure you're right and Bibliography and the B course, like medicine, will all be good for me in the end.

Thread name: for a few hours it seemed to morph into 'Oxford DPhil please help!'. Bizarre. I hope I'm not going bonkers.

If you are going bonkers, it will stand you in good stead for fitting in at Oxford!!

Good on you! Does getting shopping delivered cost extra? I hate going shopping at the supermarket.

Thinking about it I probably spend around £25 a week on my proportion of our weekly shop. I often find that other costs build up though! - midday cup of coffee, going to Hall with friends - though those are optional extras, of course. Socialising is definitely the most expensive thing about Oxford!!

Is that really the case? I'm overseas and have had my college offers come by email.

I think a lot of people, particularly as they approach grad school, would be shifting address with a certain amount of frequency, so I agree that this apparent letter-by-post policy is pretty obsolescent.

Of course, from the colleges' perspective there is no rush to notify you, particularly as they don't usually require confirmation until much later in the year, and above all given that one is not usually in a position to reject a college offer without also rejecting one's university offer.

Again may I ask which college that was? I'm doing an informal survey of techy vs archaic colleges.

the delivery is between 3 and 5 pounds so it's not much :-)
I guess socialising it expensive everywhere but if i know i have a certain budget i'm able to stick to it. why doesn't the college believe me

Christ Church.

now that we're speaking of the English Options, does anybody know more about the core C Option for the English and American strand? I can find descriptions of all the other options, except this one...