Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

I'm indecisive as to actually life decisions at the moment!

It's a toss up betwee the MSc in Social Anthropology and the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy....

Current PPE student at Oxford, so I don't know whether to embrace my International Relations side or not!

Same here, life decisions: work or study?

By the way I know quite a lot about Global Governance and Diplomacy: applied there last year and got in, know two students who are on the programme, met one of the lecturers on the programme only 2 weeks ago and spoke a lot about the programme, if you want any information from an insider's point of view I may be able to help... anything you haven't found out by yourself already being in Oxford, that is.

Indeed. But as I don't have anything lined up for the latter just yet it's leaning towards the easy (albeit expensive!) option!

I can't decide whether I'm more interested in the academic side of Anthropology or IR.

I'm super interested in the global influence of sport, which is something that's applicable to both degrees - either the concept of sport as an identity label, or sport as a purveyor of social norms/a diplomacy tool.



Ooh very interesting. Did you not take up your place?

It looks pretty awesome, not gonna lie.

It looks pretty awesome, not gonna lie.

Oh I had forgotten, you probably already know it but I was told in these very same words that even Oxford undergrads who apply to GGD and don't have a 1st (or a predicted one) usually don't make it. The cut-off level is extremely high, no matter where you come from they want students with a 1st. I don't know how flexible this policy is, and once you get in their offer is probably going to be a 67/68% only, but as far as predictions go that's what I was told they're looking for, no less. Good luck!

Don know what to do.....in a deep stress at the moment...

Almost the same boat.

An admissions tutor replied my email on 10th, "we were impressed with your application and you should be hearing from us soon."

I'm glad they were impressed, but I don't know what to expect. Maybe I shouldn't expect anything, so I won't be disappointed lol.

Okay thanks for that. The cut off for a 1st for PPE is only 67.5% anyways, and hopefully I should hit that... so I'll put down a predicted 1st and see how we go. I assume if I get an offer, they'll give me one conditional of hitting a certain percentage/getting a first anyways.

The irritating thing about being an Oxford undergrad is that we do literally nothing towards our final grade until our finals in summer of 3rd year. Meaning I have literally no transcript to speak of.

We do University exams at the end of first year, but they don't mean a lot, and there is no correlation between achievement at prelims in 1st year and achievement in finals of 3rd year...

So I have nothing but references to prove I could hit a first. Grr.

I would be surprised if an undergraduate/masters application managed to impress a famous academic.

Just received an email from my department with a conditional offer! Applied back in early October and heard back via email on the 20th. My program is MSc Environmental Change and Management. Just thought I would post in case any one is wondering about when they might hear back.

So you probably wont receive any emails back until early January now! =(

ahahaha you just reminded me now that when they sent us our offer letters they were all signed with "we have been most impressed with your excellent academic record... -stuff about looking forward to having you etc etc-"
I don't think they really are impressed tbh...I would be surprised if an undergraduate/masters application managed to impress a famous academic.

I got my offer two days after the interview.

The graduate administrator broke up on the 20th though (as I tried to email her and got an out of office reply until the 3rd of Jan), and I think its the same with all administration staff. So you probably wont receive any emails back until early January now! =(

Aw Xristina don't you think that's a bit harsh?! . I guess as long as you impress them enough that you get an offer that's what counts - sounds like this is the standard way they word offers, but there's actually something quite nice about that.