Ask me Anything: UNIQ (University of Oxford)

Hey guys, ask me questions about UNIQ - the University of Oxford's access programme for Year 12s!!

I'm unsure if you can answer this, but do people who don't meet the prioritised criteria have much of a chance?

if i got into theology and religion but am not considering that course any more as it was a second choice ( but might still do something philosophy related ) would it still be useful to go ?

I'm unsure if you can answer this, but do people who don't meet the prioritised criteria have much of a chance?

i was wondering that too xx

if i got into theology and religion but am not considering that course any more as it was a second choice ( but might still do something philosophy related ) would it still be useful to go ?

definitely! i got my second choice (linguistics) and i ended up loving the summer school, and then i decided to apply for linguistics for uni, and it's now something i am looking forward to studying this year

I am in the same situation as you! Just accepted the invite for Linguistics and was wondering if you had any tips or reading recommendations beforehand! Thank you so much!

hey ! just wondering whether travel costs are paid by oxford or not ?? cause it’s super expensive from where i am haha

Bathroom facilities vary from college to college and within colleges, some rooms are ensuite but many have shared facilities - one bathroom or shower room to every few rooms. Oxford college accommodation can be spartan. The buildings are often old and the money is mostly spent on teaching, research, and/or stopping the roof from falling off. Do not expect fancy digs, but look out of the window - Oxford!
There is a coin-operated laundry in every college.

wait ure serious?
how do people live there if its like that?

I am serious. I think that you might have a think about your First World middle class assumptions. Millions of people across the World live without clean water, let alone en suite bathrooms, and even in the UK many people live in crowded flats with limited facilities; but that by the by.
The oldest quadrangle in Oxford dates from the fourteenth century (it's in Merton College). In my first year (in another college), I and another undergraduate lived in a large and beautiful set of three rooms which had not changed much the seventeenth century, when the college was built. There was one toilet and a bathroom four floors below. That was a while back. Nowadays, there are more toilets and more bathrooms, but by no means all of the student rooms have en suite facilities. Old colleges have buildings ranging from medieval to built last year. More recent colleges have buildings ranging from the C19 or C20 to built last years. The type of rooms and the facilities available vary a lot.
The accommodation and the food at Oxford and Cambridge tend to be cheaper than they are at other universities. The colleges subsidise the costs. The colleges will provide you with three meals a day if you want them. They used to make your bed for you but don't do that any more. The idea is for the students to focus on academic work first, having fun second, and not to worry much about daily chores.
The rooms are often a bit basic and they may be a bit drab, but step outside of your room and, look, there is the Radcliffe Camera. And you can go into it. Look, there's your tutor, the World's Number One expert in your current module. That's the deal.