Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

I think richard feynnman would not care about your question ..

The physics genius?? Did you know that he was turned down by Columbia as an undergrad ??!!

Hi all,

I've just had some very upsetting news regarding my application for an MSt in General Linguistics & Comparative Phililogy at Oxford, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.

I have submitted my online application through embark two days before the deadline and then received an email from the embark system that said my transcripts were missing and that I should submit them through the inquiries form on the uni's website (and nothing further). So I uploaded them there again with a note that I these were apparently missing though I could see them in my submitted form.

However, 15 minutes ago (i.e. seven days after the deadline has passed), I received the following reply to my inquiry: "We regret that this document does not meet the requirements stipulated in the Application Guide for an official transcript, i.e. visibly and indelibly certified by the issuing institution, and was therefore insufficient to complete your application for the deadline. "

Now the transcript I submitted was an intermediate transcript, and as such comes from our department and not on the university paper (though it still states all the marks and department, student numbers etc.). I asked at registry here before specifically if there are intermediate transcripts available from the registry, but the official transcripts are only issued after the degree is awarded. So, as I am still a student that would be the most official document I would get at any time.

Obviously I feel very upset about this now, and I wonder whether anybody can offer any advice. Is there any way to get them to reconsider the application? And if so, would that affect the funding as well (as there are obviously funding deadlines too)? And if that is not the case, have I wasted £50 to be told a week late that my application was not complete in the first place? I am not even sure whom I should speak to there...

Obviously I feel very upset about this now, and I wonder whether anybody can offer any advice. Is there any way to get them to reconsider the application? And if so, would that affect the funding as well (as there are obviously funding deadlines too)? And if that is not the case, have I wasted £50 to be told a week late that my application was not complete in the first place? I am not even sure whom I should speak to there...

Thanks guys. I will try to find out who the admissions contact for that course is and what they say. If that doesn't help directly I'll ask our department's administrator whether she would call them on my behalf. Oh, I hope this is going to straighten out somehow... :-/

I think richard feynnman would not care about your question ..

I think that's an extremely important criterion; I applied to Trinity mainly because of the yum grub .

In fairness it is probably better than my criteria of how good the food is!

Hey, I chose Balliol at least partially because Lord Peter Wimsey "went" there.

Oh dear. I hope they cleaned up afterwards...

Just an addendum to my previous post to say that (like a couple of other people, it seems) I finally got an email this morning from Graduate Admissions to confirm that my MSt English application is complete and will be assessed as part of the 20th deadline - it's been just over a week since I sent it in, so I guess they had a load to sort through which were submitted last minute before the deadline!

Anyone with a college offer yet?

Haha, if only you had posted this message a week ago. I'd have picked Trinity as my first choice then.

Thanks guys. I will try to find out who the admissions contact for that course is and what they say. If that doesn't help directly I'll ask our department's administrator whether she would call them on my behalf. Oh, I hope this is going to straighten out somehow... :-/

I submitted an open application and got my college offer a couple of weeks ago.

Mansfield College for me. I don't mind which college I go to but in hindsight, I would have picked a college that had graduate accommodation in Oxford itself, but oh well!

I'm happy with Mansfield though. I think a smaller college will suit me.