Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

Thank you! I will reply to your PM when I am on my computer. :smile:

Does anyone know how much funding they like you to show if you applied for a part time program? I will be traveling to Oxford from the US 2x a year for a week each. (Really it works out to be 4x in the first year...Oct, Feb, July, Oct).

That sounds pretty intense! Do you know of a cheap airline?!*

*I ask, not entirely disinterestedly, as my future parents-in-law live in the states. Yay regular long-haul flights.

Reply 2981

Rams

Original post by RadiantJewel

Got an email offer for Oriel College, my first choice. Very excited!

Congratulations!

Reply 2982

Rams

Original post by k.i.ivanov

We should most definitely! :smile:

I put my first choice on St Cross, yet I got a place at Wolfson (much to the horror of many people around here :wink:

). Maybe not ideal but, I believe, still a superb place to spend your time while at Oxford! :smile:

At any rate, I very much look forward to meeting you - for the time being we should maybe exchange contacts? I will PM you (only if I first figure out how haha) :smile:

Hey...I got a place at Wolfson too! I was pretty disappointed at first because I was hoping for an old and traditional college. But I've now made my peace with it- dont care much for the buildings but I like the look of the grounds. I'm glad that couple accommodation is also in the college so I can now feel like a part of the place. Have you applied for accommodation yet?

Reply 2983

Rams

Original post by ExeterHistStudent

I think love is in the air ^

Hahaha...

Reply 2984

BallofNerves

Hello everybody,

I read a few pages back that there is an internal deadline for colleges to decide on applicants who have expressed a college preference, with that deadline being the 20th of April (today). I was wondering - is this only applicable to certain applicants? I.e. those who applied by a given deadline/to a particular faculty/received an offer by some particular date? Or is it applicable across to board to all graduate applicants? (This seems odd to me?)

I got my offer e-mail approx. four weeks ago (having applied by the January deadline), so I wasn't expecting a college offer for another few weeks... but then I am not sure how that works with the whole internal deadline business.

Thank-you in advance for any thoughts :smile:

Reply 2985

ACC_21

Original post by BallofNerves

Hello everybody,

I read a few pages back that there is an internal deadline for colleges to decide on applicants who have expressed a college preference, with that deadline being the 20th of April (today). I was wondering - is this only applicable to certain applicants? I.e. those who applied by a given deadline/to a particular faculty/received an offer by some particular date? Or is it applicable across to board to all graduate applicants? (This seems odd to me?)

I got my offer e-mail approx. four weeks ago (having applied by the January deadline), so I wasn't expecting a college offer for another few weeks... but then I am not sure how that works with the whole internal deadline business.

Thank-you in advance for any thoughts :smile:

I've been wondering the same thing, I also got my offer about 3 weeks ago. I think maybe the deadline for the decision could be today, but we will be INFORMED next week/future weeks? I highly doubt there is a deadline on which all college offers must be sent out... seems strange and if it was true, I would have thought they would have mentioned it on the application quide where it says 8-10 weeks... :/

Reply 2986

ACC_21

That said, I'm tempted to call the college I applied to this afternoon and just ask if they have any idea when decisions will be made !

Reply 2987

h3l18

Original post by Palinurus

My idea is that it means exactly what it says. Unconditional offers can be made to those still completing, one can speculate freely as to why your department may have done this.

Thanks for the reply!
I just hope they won't change their mind after getting my results... :frown:

Original post by Mackenzie123

Thank you! I will reply to your PM when I am on my computer. :smile:

Does anyone know how much funding they like you to show if you applied for a part time program? I will be traveling to Oxford from the US 2x a year for a week each. (Really it works out to be 4x in the first year...Oct, Feb, July, Oct).

It might be worth asking, but I don't think that travelling costs are included in the financial undertaking.

Reply 2989

BallofNerves

Original post by ACC_21

I've been wondering the same thing, I also got my offer about 3 weeks ago. I think maybe the deadline for the decision could be today, but we will be INFORMED next week/future weeks? I highly doubt there is a deadline on which all college offers must be sent out... seems strange and if it was true, I would have thought they would have mentioned it on the application quide where it says 8-10 weeks... :/

Ah yes, you have a good point re it being mentioned officially on the application guide. Seeing the post on here was certainly the first time that I heard about the whole deadline thing. And admittedly, it got me a bit worried :s-smilie:

Original post by ACC_21

That said, I'm tempted to call the college I applied to this afternoon and just ask if they have any idea when decisions will be made !

I also considered sending an e-mail to the college/dept for clarification, but I don't think I should do that until I hit the 10 week mark :tongue:

And so the e-mail vigil continues...

Best of luck, and thanks for the reply!

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ACC_21

yeah I'm not sure if I should call.... don't want to annoy them! I keep telling myself I should just be thrilled to have an offer and not be so impatient about something as trivial as which college I'll go to...

I just feel like I need to know where I'm going to make it all seem real and to complete the "what I'm doing next year" picture

Reply 2991

Palinurus

Original post by BallofNerves

Hello everybody,

I read a few pages back that there is an internal deadline for colleges to decide on applicants who have expressed a college preference, with that deadline being the 20th of April (today). I was wondering - is this only applicable to certain applicants? I.e. those who applied by a given deadline/to a particular faculty/received an offer by some particular date? Or is it applicable across to board to all graduate applicants? (This seems odd to me?)

I got my offer e-mail approx. four weeks ago (having applied by the January deadline), so I wasn't expecting a college offer for another few weeks... but then I am not sure how that works with the whole internal deadline business.

Thank-you in advance for any thoughts :smile:

Hey

I'm not really convinced in the idea of this internal deadline either. What function would it serve? And why now, when some departmental admissions decisions have only very recently been made?

Also, I am not sure it makes sense: some people will have been rejected from college x and then sent to college y, who in turn will have to assess them in relation to their current candidates/admits for the particular course; some people, for various reasons will be rejected multiple times; and applications will be lost and misplaced on the way; so to think that colleges could all have finalised their decisions by now seems a little surprising. Potentially it just applies to one particular college.

I suspect as with a lot of things at Oxford college decisions are probably not centralised in any substantial way, but have much more to do with when the relevant fellow for the particular discipline a) receives the applications, and b) has time to assess them all.

But, nota bene, I have no insider knowledge, just a predilection for speculation.

Reply 2992

ACC_21

Coming from a university with perhaps the worst administration in the world, I have VERY low expectations of colleges/departments doing things soon, or on time.

Reply 2993

Palinurus

Original post by threeportdrift

It might be worth asking, but I don't think that travelling costs are included in the financial undertaking.

In my experience as an international applicant, travel costs aren't included: colleges presumably regard travel home as an optional extra. How you cope when you're not at Oxford is none of their concern.

But I'm not sure about the overall financial requirement for the MSt Literature and Arts: your college, if you have been assigned one by now, will send you a financial guarantee form which will quote a precise figure. Alternately the Oxford fees and funding search website would be able to give you a pretty accurate figure.

Reply 2994

Palinurus

Original post by h3l18

Thanks for the reply!
I just hope they won't change their mind after getting my results... :frown:

To my knowledge there is no precedent for that - unless of course you fail to complete your degree. Don't do that.

Basically they are saying that your achievements so far are sufficient to be admitted to your chosen program; potentially also they are keen to secure their numbers by not putting in place a hurdle that a certain proportion will not cross.

Reply 2995

k.i.ivanov

Original post by Rams

Hey...I got a place at Wolfson too! I was pretty disappointed at first because I was hoping for an old and traditional college. But I've now made my peace with it- dont care much for the buildings but I like the look of the grounds. I'm glad that couple accommodation is also in the college so I can now feel like a part of the place. Have you applied for accommodation yet?

Hey Rams,

I am also very much at ease with Wolfson being the college that has offered me a place! :smile:

it's truly a piece of heaven away from the hustle and bustle of the town centre :wink:

As to the accommodation provided on-site, there's plenty of choice and I remember distinctively I had a hard time filling in the form (so yes, I've applied already!) :smile:

How about you? Are going for the newer buildings or the slightly less state-of-the-art ones?

Reply 2996

k.i.ivanov

Original post by Klackalica

I was really hoping for this one... :frown:

I know the feeling..

Reply 2997

HLS

Just to clarify the position as I understand it. The internal College deadline for applicants from the January cohort was today. This is what I was told by my college preference (who rejected me - the bastards!).

I do not know what deadlines are applied to November or March cohorts. If your college preference rejects you, then your application is returned to your department who must place you with an alternative college. Since I would imagine there are quite a lot of rejections, and a lot of applications with no preference indicated, this process may well take time. Especially if an application is rejected by more than one college (as I rather suspect mine will be!).

There is probably a good reason the University's website says 8-10 weeks for College placement but possibly may take longer.

I am not expecting to hear back anything soon. I was accepted by the faculty at the end of March and so I rather suspect I am unlikely to hear back now until May at the earliest, possibly even June. However I am in no rush.

It is a very great pity we cannot express second/third preferences.

Reply 2998

ACC_21

maybe today was the internal deadline for your particular college (do you mind me asking which) ? anyway we will find out soon!

Reply 2999

fifrildi

This calendar suggests that the inernal deadline for the first choice college for January applicants is today. Apparently the final college decision deadline is the 4th of May, although judging from my experience last year, this is only a very rough guide...

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