Oxford graduate applicants 2009/2010

Do you know which colleges offer onsite accommodation for 1st-year graduates?

St. Cross (but I don't think they have that much), Univ, Linacre (I think), St. Ant's, Wolfson. There may be others, but these are the ones which spring to mind.

Also, I believe they went co-ed last year, so how male friendly is the college?

Thanks.

Heard St. Cross is very poor and the accommodation is so-so.

You are right. I have a friend at St. Cross. He is not very happy with his college.
its location is quite good though

Btw, my friends at LMH, who are 1st year graduates right now, are living on campus. I have been to there once and would recommend you to give it a try. It is a bit far away from the city centre, but the environment is very pleasant. Food quality is above average as well.
It is a big and young college so I guess admissions should not be too keen (correct me if I am wrong).

Do we always get to choose a third choice if we get rejected by our first 2?

I don't know, but I think I remember Angelil saying LMH did. It's not very common, though.

You are right. I have a friend at St. Cross. He is not very happy with his college.

Congratulations nomfundo! I got into the same program off the re-evaluation thing, and was myself very skeptic of it. I am guessing you are definitely going for this program then? I look forward to meeting you next year. If you don't mind me asking, where are you from and where do you go to college?

The New grad accomm on the Western sports ground... Does it mean that it's gonna be very noisy and impossible to study?

I was wondering does anyone know if the social science Clarendon scholarships have been or are in the process of being handed out? not that I have any chance of getting them... but finding out the inevitable is preferable

sorry chochu444: i've had no internet access since at all. i'm visiting my grandmother in durban -- not a wireless signal in sight. in fact, my boyfriend (he's in philly) checked my email and sent me a text to tell me i got in. congrats to you, too! HIGH FIVE! it's funny, cambridge was my first choice initially, but i am starting lean towards the 2-year program at oxford for its depth. i really do hope to meet you in october. i'm from south africa and i graduated from sarah lawrence college in 2007. i did the OPT thing in philly for a year (in the development field). i live in cape town and work as a journalist. where in the us did you go to school? i remember you said you were from nepal.

congrats again. holding thumbs for us both for funding. have you taken any next steps? i'm not quite sure how to go about looking for external scholarships of ox doesn't come through. have you started?

There has been a lot of college talk here, so I wanted to add my two cents: I was at LMH for a year last year and i simply loved it. they have really pretty gardens, close to the wonderful uni parks, and are away from the hustle and bustle of cheap tourism. i had an absolutely amazing time there, and would have gone there had it not been for their poor funding. so if you dont need money from a college, LMH is great. two minors things that you might want to consider though...first, i didnt feel like the MCR and the JCR were very close, in that i hardly noticed and intermingling in a social capacity outside formal events. now this might just have been my experience, but i was fairly social and knew most freshers and most of them didn't really know many grad students. second, there is a REALLY mean porter there who goes out of his way to try and "find" you doing something wrong. oh man, he liked to be on our case all right!

There has been a lot of college talk here, so I wanted to add my two cents: I was at LMH for a year last year and i simply loved it. they have really pretty gardens, close to the wonderful uni parks, and are away from the hustle and bustle of cheap tourism. i had an absolutely amazing time there, and would have gone there had it not been for their poor funding. so if you dont need money from a college, LMH is great. two minors things that you might want to consider though...first, i didnt feel like the MCR and the JCR were very close, in that i hardly noticed any intermingling in a social capacity outside formal events. now this might just have been my experience, but i was fairly social and knew most freshers and most of them didn't really know many grad students. second, there is a REALLY mean porter there who goes out of his way to try and "find" you doing something wrong. oh man, he liked to be on our case all right!

a friend of mine will be studying for a MSC in anthropology at Oxford. She put down Magdalen as her first choice college. Does anyone know what the chances of getting in are or how many anthropology students Magdalen accepts each year? I was under the impression that they prefer more mainstream subjects such as english, history, etc.

thanks!!!

You can get money from Wolfson for things like conference funding, but I don't think they've got any more scholarships beyond those advertised on the admissions web-site. I don't think taking a place without securing some funding will work either, because unless you've got something like a research council studentship (in which case the college will know how to get at their fees), I think you need to provide some sort of proof you are coming up with all the funds you need.