Oxford 2020 Applicants official thread!! (Part 1)

Honestly, I can't wait. But let us not forget, if we do end up receiving an invitation, after the interview, there's another wait until the 14th of Jan haha I think that one will be worse than this one.

Honestly, I can't wait. But let us not forget, if we do end up receiving an invitation, after the interview, there's another wait until the 14th of Jan haha I think that one will be worse than this one.

@BrasenoseAdm what time do submissions close for written work on Sunday Britain time?

Honestly, I can't wait. But let us not forget, if we do end up receiving an invitation, after the interview, there's another wait until the 14th of Jan haha I think that one will be worse than this one.

Hola jackbarney,
Good question. As a specific time is not stated, we would say midnight.

Brasenose Admissions

she means that if they have 10 places, there will be around 30 people interviewed and it'll be hard to remember everyones name and face etc when deciding who to give places to

do offers come during the weekends, or is like an off for admission tutors as well? idk but someone said that they don't ever come on weekends, just wanted to confirm...

they can do - but they won't from Oxford

oh ok thanks, but how come not from Oxford?

Do you get sent an acknowledgment of the submitted written work bc I submitted mine yesterday morning and now I’m paranoid they haven’t received it!

My college did send me an acknowledgement email 1 minute after I submitted my written work

Ahh rip do you think I should send a follow up email?

Has anyone here heard back from Warwick/ucl/imperial for biochemistry/biosciences xx really nervous here
Applied on 13th Oct only heard from Manchester biochem

Hi, I pretty much failed the PAT (Don't tell me everyone thinks they did badly blah blah because I genuinely have 0 chance of reaching the interview cut off mark) and I was wondering how good your grades/ bad your mitigating circumstances have to be to get a chance for an interview, I'm predicted A*A*AA and have GCSEs 999997776 so I'm pretty sure I'm not an excellent applicant since it's pretty average for oxford but I had some family issues which meant I literally could sleep for day leading up to the PAT and had to take days off school. I don't want to tell my school this info for no reason and since it's not a medical issue concerning me then I'm not sure if my score would really be reconsidered, what are the chances of me getting an interview invite?

Each department usually releases an admissions feedback document where they explain how they shortlisted applicants for a particular year of entry - I’ve found one for Physics on Balliol’s site (although the stats seem to be university wide and not just for the college)

I couldn’t find anything specifically about how they’d take into account grades, as they said they primarily use PAT scores, but they wrote that “We took into account medical certificates and letters drawing attention to adversities in applicants’ personal lives that may have affected candidate performance or ability to participate in the tests”, so it’s definitely a good shout to inform the college you applied to of your mitigating circumstances! They even continue “79 applicants below this cut-off whose application forms showed other evidence of excellence or mitigating circumstances were also short-listed”, so definitely hang in there, not all is lost!!!

The full doc is https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/physics_pat_2018_report.pdf

Do you get sent an acknowledgment of the submitted written work bc I submitted mine yesterday morning and now I’m paranoid they haven’t received it!