Oxford graduate applicants 2009/2010

Yes.

Not that I'm aware, but presumably there'll be a natural limit to how many courses you can apply for. And you'll have to pay the application fee for each application, of course.

You can, but there's a risk that your application for one course will be seen by someone who knows you're also applying for another one.

Thanks. Then may I ask do you have to put the same college for all applications?

I am just wondering whether one can apply to more than one graduate course at Oxford. If so, is there a limit as to how many masters programme you apply to? Can you apply to more than one masters programme within the same Faculty/Department? Thanks!

Thanks. Then may I ask do you have to put the same college for all applications?

I have a very stupid question: how do I accept an offer?
Should I send a letter or would an email be ok? Should I write to the director of graduate studies or to my supervisor? And is there any specific form I should use?

Neither. You need to get in touch with your college (either through forms they sent you with your offer or via email). If you haven't got a college place yet, you'll have to wait until you do.

I only received the offer letter from the Department of Sociology, it says:

"This offer is not subject to any academic conditions but please confirm if you wish to accept this offer or not by 31 July 2009"

Completely random and a side note - but does anyone here think that they will continue or start to play a sport at Oxford?

How much time realistically can you have in a graduate program to devote to a sport?

I am just thinking this through. I want to keep active while in school, but I am unsure as to the time constraints.

Generally speaking it shouldn't be a problem to be a member of at least one sports team, even if you are on quite a tight schedule, but it depends on your course and also on what level you want to play at. Obviously there's a vast difference in time commitment between, say a blues rower and someone who rows in a college VIII and only has two outings and one land training session per week...

Have received my college offer and because I have tricky family-medical circumstances, Graduate Admissions suggested I let college know about my situation.

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I'm surprised and pretty disheartened that they just don't answer messages - both Graduate admissions (who are presumably much busier than a single college) and department reply to emails within 24 hours.
In the normal office scheme of things the general consensus seems to be that emails should be answered preferably within 24hrs and max 3 days - or an out of office response sent if the person's away...

What would you do? The answer to my query determines accommodation arrangements I have to make (from overseas) for my family - it's not like I'm asking them what their bar hours are.
Should I email the ST again, email the Secretary again - or try someone else?
Rant over, thanks for any ideas

From limited experience (when I was contacting prospective Colleges prior to applying), it varies from college to college as to who you should contact regarding non-academic issues (accommodation, health etc). They may be trying to find the best answer to your query as well (hence the potential delay).

Do you have any way of getting at a cheap international call if it is urgent? At least then you can ask who you should talk to.

Thanks Swift, I guess I could give them a call in a couple of days but I'm pretty upset about this at the moment and don't know if I could control my irritation on the phone - for now anyway. I think it's unlikely in this case that they're looking for a good answer as my query is pretty simple and it's not them that will be giving me accommodation - I'm sorting that out independently. Am thinking of contacting something called the Student Advisory service (who, ironically, say that they guarantee a reply within 1, and never more than 2, days)...