Oxford A100 2023 entry Applicant and Offer Holders thread

are the interviews mmi or panel?

All of my other universities have given me a portal to sign into. Oxford hasn't. Is this the case for everybody?

All of my other universities have given me a portal to sign into. Oxford hasn't. Is this the case for everybody?

I got an email from Oxford yesterday saying they've received 1713 applicants this year, which is less than both 2021 and 2020. When the number of applicants dropped from 2020 to 2021, the mean bmat score to be shortlisted also dropped. So would it be fair to assume that the mean score will decrease further this year, since there are less applicants than 2021?

That's probably reasonable; what are you hoping to get?
Also, what were the numbers for each year?

Yep, same here. My other options are ucl, kings and st andrews.

Thank you. Pretty similar to my options, the only different is i'm applying sgul not st andrew's

Oh nice! I'm having second thoughts about London though... what made you want to apply to kings and UCL?

Applicants:
2019 - 1766
2020 - 2054
2021 - 1864
2022 - 1713

Mean shortlisted BMAT:
2019 - 61.8
2020 - 68.0
2021 - 65.8
2022 - tbc


Idk what I'm hoping to get because the section 2 killed me. If I scrape an interview, I'll be over the moon.

Loved UCL so much when i went for the open day. I also liked KCL the most out of the UCAT unis that I looked at. Living and studying in London just seems really cool to me.

oh that's great! so is your order roughly oxford, kings, ucl, george's?

thanks!

oh yes section 2 was an absolute nightmare :/
tbh though my school is a grammar and about 50 of us took the bmat this year and absolutely everyone felt like they failed section 2, so I reckon the boundary won't be as high this year. You probably did better than you think

Oh damn 50? That's a lot. Yeah I got to a grammar school as well and some of the smartest people I know came out of the exam and said they failed that s2.

I wonder how people from previous years found it. Do you know anyone who took it before?

Also it's great that you've got two favourite unis! I know some people from ucl med and they love it! I'm currently struggling because I love Oxford so much more than any of the others, which is a terrible mindset because the chance of getting an offer is so low :/

What colleges did you all apply to? I applied to St Hugh’s. Not too optimistic as BMAT Section 2 sucked the life out me. Section went well, so I am confident with that. I really hope the cut off is lower. One of the guys at 6med predicts the boundaries every year, he’s been right for the past two years and this is what he has predicted.

I put in an open application and in the college allocation email it said I would hear more from my college by the end of October, but other than the email with the application stats, I've not heard from Oxford again, has everyone else received communications from their college directly? Is anyone else waiting to hear from Hertford?