Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

Just got an offer for MSc computer science. Good luck for guys who are still waiting.The offer rain is approaching..LOL.

I phoned and asked. The decisions have all been made but they need to be signed off by the Director of Graduate Studies or something, which takes time.

History Department results probably due next week apparently.

Do you mean results for the funding competitions please?

Thanks for letting us know.

In completely unrelated news, I'm suddenly very nervous.

All this talk about the decisions for other subjects just makes me want a time frame for when the English decisions come out. Keep trying to remember that English is "late March" and history is "mid-March" but it's not really helping my nerves!

Agreed! I don't believe other universities would get away with such a vague decisions calendar. If they did, I'd push them to pin down their decision dates but when I tried that with Oxford they said 'mmm...mid or late March...' so didn't really help.

I'm applying for English & American Lit stream, how about you? I got rejected from Cambridge last week (my research proposal didn't seem to match up to anyone's interests there) so crossing my fingers for Oxford.

No this is purely the decision over who is set to be admitted. Funding will not be announced until April I was told.

All this talk about the decisions for other subjects just makes me want a time frame for when the English decisions come out. Keep trying to remember that English is "late March" and history is "mid-March" but it's not really helping my nerves!

I'm applying for English & American Lit stream, how about you? I got rejected from Cambridge last week (my research proposal didn't seem to match up to anyone's interests there) so crossing my fingers for Oxford.

Great thank you.

Yes absolutely! The suspense is killing.




Sorry to hear about Cambridge; all the best for Oxford .

Did you apply to English too? Which stream?

Did you apply to English too? Which stream?

@Chipper I applied to New College. I grew up near Oxford and know some well, some not so well, and places like New College & Wadham really struck me as being traditional/beautiful looking but laid back in attitude. How about you?

I would be very pleased to even get a place. However I think the chances of my getting funding are pretty much none-existent!

This is my exact mindset/conclusion.

What's your area?

Economic & Social History. There is so little funding around for this course, and that which there is (ESRC) is not very well targeted so you have PhD and MSc applicants competing for the same funds. Unlike the AHRC, they do not have dedicated Research Preparation Masters funding, which is a pretty stupid idea.

This is the only funding I might conceivably get. The chances of getting Departmental/Clarendon funding are so remote as to not be worth considering.

That said a partial scholarship from a College would help massively.