Oxford Economics graduate applicants

Hello, I received my offer for the MPhil in Economics on March 17. I was wondering if anyone heard back about funding decisions / college allocation.

I was quite persistent in emailing them regarding funding as I have a funded offer elsewhere, and they said the department has not considered me for funding. I haven't heard from colleges yet.

Did you apply to Nuffield?

Got into Brasenose college. No word on funding yet. Got rejected by Nuffield. Is the college allocation random if you get rejected by college of choice? In addition, did anyone here about funding ?

I am unsure about the randomness of the college allocation. I think it may be matched to your interests mentioned on the statement. I haven’t heard back from my college yet... did you get rejected and then they offered you a place elsewhere automatically?
For funding I received this email on April 1:
“It has been brought to my attention that the funding part of your offer letter has been generated incorrectly. Please do not worry, this does not affect the place you were offered on the MPhil Economics Course at the University of Oxford. Please find a corrected version of your offer letter attached with the funding section amended.”
which means that I will not be given any funding.
Hope it helps!

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I got an email a few days after being accepted by the uni saying that my application to Nuffield was unsuccessful. A few days after that I got an email from Brasenose college saying that I got a place there. It was not like I was rejected by Nuffield and given a place somewhere else instead at the same time. I asked about funding and they replied that my application has been "nominated" for departmental funding and that they will inform me about their decision soon. Saw a post above where the person said that everyone should have been notified by Wednesday about funding, and I did not get any email so I guess I was unsuccessful to secure funding.

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I got an email a few days after being accepted by the uni saying that my application to Nuffield was unsuccessful. A few days after that I got an email from Brasenose college saying that I got a place there. It was not like I was rejected by Nuffield and given a place somewhere else instead at the same time. I asked about funding and they replied that my application has been "nominated" for departmental funding and that they will inform me about their decision soon. Saw a post above where the person said that everyone should have been notified by Wednesday about funding, and I did not get any email so I guess I was unsuccessful to secure funding.

Congratulations for your offer! I was a little bit surprised because I was thinking that Brasenose was a popular choice and hard to get in unless you chose as first-choice. Are you under any special occasion connected to the college? And was it two to three days after the rejection from Nuffield that you got the email from Brasenose? Sorry for asking direct questions...

If your GPA means you're among the top 5% of your cohort then that's probably good enough. However, they do probably expect at least GRE 165Q since they write that explicitly.

Hey thanks for replying!
Unfortunately, I live in a very remote part of India and retaking the GRE would mean a lot of travelling for me. Is there any way I could possibly improve my chances?
Also, I am probably not among the top 5% of my class. Could be top 15 though. However, I was the state topper in class 12 (did not mention this anywhere though).

There are 5 components to the application so if you can't do anything about some then work on the others. Also, there's no need to stress really. It's not uncommon to start a master's as an international student when you're 24 so it might just be worth taking some maths and research assistance/work before applying