Oxford Graduate Application 2012/13

The other day I told one of my mates that I received an offer from Oxford. He said that postgraduate applications to Oxford, especially the masters, were not very competitive. I was given a link to admissions statistics, and honestly I was a bit shocked.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/facts_and_figures/graduate_admissions_statistics/index.html

My response was "If most applicants are very good, then admission statistics don't tell much." He doubted me, "Is that a fact or a hypothesis?"

By the way, he's Harvard-educated. And I am not sure if I want to get back at him. *sighs*

I just read back and saw your posts - huge congratulations on your scholarship! Do you think you will end up going to Oxford, or do the other options tempt you too?

Nothing in the post here yet. I think I'll piss myself if I get funding.

The other day I told one of my mates that I received an offer from Oxford. He said that postgraduate applications to Oxford, especially the masters, were not very competitive. I was given a link to admissions statistics, and honestly I was a bit shocked.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/facts_and_figures/graduate_admissions_statistics/index.html

My response was "If most applicants are very good, then admission statistics don't tell much." He doubted me, "Is that a fact or a hypothesis?"

By the way, he's Harvard-educated. And I am not sure if I want to get back at him. *sighs*

The other day I told one of my mates that I received an offer from Oxford. He said that postgraduate applications to Oxford, especially the masters, were not very competitive. I was given a link to admissions statistics, and honestly I was a bit shocked.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/facts_and_figures/graduate_admissions_statistics/index.html

My response was "If most applicants are very good, then admission statistics don't tell much." He doubted me, "Is that a fact or a hypothesis?"

By the way, he's Harvard-educated. And I am not sure if I want to get back at him. *sighs*

Hi, has anyone received offer from department of engineering sciences?

Not only Harvard, if you check the statistics you will be amazed to see the large volume of applications the US universities receive per academic year. Now do you think all of the applications worth mentioning in terms of talents and qualifications? i don think so. I am going to throw some cents regarding this.

Just explaining what happens in my country, if you ask someone studying undergrad and has a plan for higher studies he/she would say 'US'. Its more of a dream kind of thing than a logical thoughtful answer. They do not have much ideas about universities in other countries but they tend to read anything about US in medias. When they pass uni save money for GRE+Application fee for 10 Uni and work hard for the GRE. To do all these some of them take 2/3 years even. Then they make that shot for USA. Now this is the common scenario for most of the students here which certainly decreased in last 3 years because of lack of funding. Those who moved to UK went there for two reasons: they like to start a degree immediately and they have the backup from family for it.

There are a lot of forums for US university applications, Euclid(i think cant remember clearly) is one of them. there people upload there profile and the universities they applied to and the decisions. Regardless of how their profile look like many students applying high profile US universities and getting rejected. I think there are only 3 students from my country in Oxford at the moment (according to guardian) and so far i know they are duel passport holder (british) and i never heard anyone from here applying Oxford even though i knew people applying in Princeton, MIT,Stanford and getting rejected.

The other day I told one of my mates that I received an offer from Oxford. He said that postgraduate applications to Oxford, especially the masters, were not very competitive. I was given a link to admissions statistics, and honestly I was a bit shocked.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/facts_and_figures/graduate_admissions_statistics/index.html

My response was "If most applicants are very good, then admission statistics don't tell much." He doubted me, "Is that a fact or a hypothesis?"

By the way, he's Harvard-educated. And I am not sure if I want to get back at him. *sighs*

Hi, has anyone received offer from department of engineering sciences?

I expect a lot from Oxford, especially if I have to loan LOTS of money to pay tuition fees. I want to be educated in an intellectually stimulated environment (e.g. enjoyable class discussions), and that somewhat depends on the quality of my year's intakes. I want to be pushed. To be challenged.

I hope studying at Oxford is not the biggest mistake of my life. LOL. Anyway I think I'm going to take the risk despite what the admission statistics say!

To quote a phrase of a person I talked to privately:
Oxford, you'd better be worth it!

It's really hard to compare. My undergrad was top 10 in the US, and for English is also in the top ten for graduate study. They only accept students to do their PhD. Last year there were 8 students admitted... but they get full funding from the university. It's just really different. That's why people who are really qualified still apply for ten or more schools, because it's such a crap-shoot. At least that's what the head of our department told us in the meeting about PhD applications. Don't let your Harvard friend get you down, it's just completely different.

Seems logical.....all i can say from my course's perspective I would have loaned full costs (which is huge) if possible to study there. pity, i have no loan options .....

I was so pathetic that I asked my parents to use our house and land as a collateral just in case I need to loan.

I'm so ashamed of myself, imagining the worst-case scenario, in which everyone in my family is forced to leave our house but I'm still in debt. Haha. And considering my field (social policy), they have good reasons to doubt my ability to repay the loan! Loaning to study an MBA makes sense. Loaning to study stuff you're passionate about does not, financially. Maybe I'm crazy lol.