My tutor missed the early UCAS deadline. Is it impossible to go to Oxbridge?

I’m not an expert on UCAS deadlines but surely if you were so committed to going Oxford OR Cambridge, you would’ve been chasing up this reference for weeks/months.

Seems you left your application quite late to actually submit.

Fingers crossed something can be sorted but surely you realise it was your responsibility to ensure your application (including references) was complete by the deadline.

No, if you miss the deadline, you miss the deadline, your never getting into any university.

Hi. I applied for Oxford university. I don’t expect to be accepted and that isn’t a big issue, however, it is now the 16th October and my tutor still hasn’t written my personal statement.

This is really unfair because I finished my application in August. I told my tutor that I was going to submit it early and I told him that on the 14th September. I submitted my application on the 14th September and since then,

Hold up, is it your tutor that actually had to write your PS or you meant reference.

One other thing, if you knew your deadline was 15th October, why risk it and wait a day before the deadline OR EVEN why did you have to wait until 14th October to send your application to your tutor.

Mostly, you are to blame. if you claim to have finished it by August then at least you would have sent it your tutor by 1st October and then be on his neck about sending it to UCAS, than waiting until 14th and then being on his neck for not sending it.
Kinda irresponsible, don't you think?

But Oxbridgedg isn't the end of the world, there is Durham, Imperial and Warick etc as you go down. Unless you were applying for medicine.

Is it possible for you to ask your tutor to write in the reference it was his fault the application was not in on time?

Maybe ring Oxford and see what they say

Thank you, I will try those.

I meant my reference.

I didn’t wait a day. I waited a month. September and October are in different months.

True.

Hi. I applied for Oxford university. I don’t expect to be accepted and that isn’t a big issue, however, it is now the 16th October and my tutor still hasn’t written my personal statement. Does this automatically rule out any chance of my even being considered by Oxbridge. There is nothing I can do?

This is really unfair because I finished my application in August. I told my tutor that I was going to submit it early and I told him that on the 14th September. I submitted my application on the 14th September and since then, I havent even seen my tutor because of work experience and he missed a lesson. I assumed he had already completed my application and sent it to UCAS by now, but today on the 16th October, I have finally seen him again and now he is telling me that he didn’t even know I submitted the application.

Surely I can’t be blamed for that? It’s completely unfair!!

Hi. I applied for Oxford university. I don’t expect to be accepted and that isn’t a big issue, however, it is now the 16th October and my tutor still hasn’t written my personal statement. Does this automatically rule out any chance of my even being considered by Oxbridge. There is nothing I can do?

This is really unfair because I finished my application in August. I told my tutor that I was going to submit it early and I told him that on the 14th September. I submitted my application on the 14th September and since then, I havent even seen my tutor because of work experience and he missed a lesson. I assumed he had already completed my application and sent it to UCAS by now, but today on the 16th October, I have finally seen him again and now he is telling me that he didn’t even know I submitted the application.

Surely I can’t be blamed for that? It’s completely unfair!!