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If you got an interview then you are oxbridge material. It means your grades and PS were good enough that they could see you here from those. I
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The interviews are designed partially to see if you would fit into the teaching style here, and partially so they can compare applicants more directly. You might have done really well and there could just have been loads of strong applicants this year. They might also have felt your discomfort and stress and felt like you wouldn’t enjoy it here, because of the amount of pressure, high expectations etc. It probably isn’t that you couldn’t do the academic work here, just that they had lots of good applicants to choose from or that they didn’t think you’d be happy in this environment. If you applied again in a year, with a bit more life experience and hopefully a bit less pressure from school, it is possible you’d get in. So many of my friends here got in second time around.
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I love it here, but I’ve also done study placements at other unis and I loved it there too. Remember that you will enjoy other courses and other places as well as Cambridge, and that going to a uni that suits your personal needs and your personality is way more important than going to a uni with a reputation largely built on its age and Money.
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Interviewers are just people and they do make mistakes sometimes. Also, you’re also only human and your performance in a 20 min interview cannot represent the full extent of your ability. Be kind to yourself - you got an interview at Cambridge. That is amazing in and of itself. You’re no less intelligent and no less worthy of success because of this. So many factors can be in the mix that you cannot know how it really went - I ended up pretending to be a mushroom very briefly in one interview when I couldn’t remember the French word for mushroom because of the stress and I didn’t want to go back to English. I felt it went terrible, but turns out I got quite a high score in that interview. There’s no way of knowing what they were thinking in that time, so if you can, try to make your peace with that. The interviewers know you’re not stupid, they know it’s stressful and they know that everyone they interview wants a place really badly. Everyone’s just doing their best with the limited time and resources available with which to differentiate between candidates.
1.
If you got an interview then you are oxbridge material. It means your grades and PS were good enough that they could see you here from those. I
2.
The interviews are designed partially to see if you would fit into the teaching style here, and partially so they can compare applicants more directly. You might have done really well and there could just have been loads of strong applicants this year. They might also have felt your discomfort and stress and felt like you wouldn’t enjoy it here, because of the amount of pressure, high expectations etc. It probably isn’t that you couldn’t do the academic work here, just that they had lots of good applicants to choose from or that they didn’t think you’d be happy in this environment. If you applied again in a year, with a bit more life experience and hopefully a bit less pressure from school, it is possible you’d get in. So many of my friends here got in second time around.
3.
I love it here, but I’ve also done study placements at other unis and I loved it there too. Remember that you will enjoy other courses and other places as well as Cambridge, and that going to a uni that suits your personal needs and your personality is way more important than going to a uni with a reputation largely built on its age and Money.
4.
Interviewers are just people and they do make mistakes sometimes. Also, you’re also only human and your performance in a 20 min interview cannot represent the full extent of your ability. Be kind to yourself - you got an interview at Cambridge. That is amazing in and of itself. You’re no less intelligent and no less worthy of success because of this. So many factors can be in the mix that you cannot know how it really went - I ended up pretending to be a mushroom very briefly in one interview when I couldn’t remember the French word for mushroom because of the stress and I didn’t want to go back to English. I felt it went terrible, but turns out I got quite a high score in that interview. There’s no way of knowing what they were thinking in that time, so if you can, try to make your peace with that. The interviewers know you’re not stupid, they know it’s stressful and they know that everyone they interview wants a place really badly. Everyone’s just doing their best with the limited time and resources available with which to differentiate between candidates.
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