Oxford second college interview - law

Has anyone heard? Is it a good thing to get second college interview?

Reply 1

My first interviews were with Lincoln and I haven’t receive anything, yet. I heard it could be good or bad but also not sure. If anyone knows please share.

Reply 2

margot_07

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Original post by Alla***

My first interviews were with Lincoln and I haven’t receive anything, yet. I heard it could be good or bad but also not sure. If anyone knows please share.

Apparently all the law professors met at the faculty yesterday so will be sending out any second college interviews today. Can be good or potentially bad thing no way to tell I don’t think. I had my law interviews at Lincoln too earlier this week so now waiting too! 🤞🤞

Reply 3

Anonymous #2

Original post by Anonymous

Has anyone heard? Is it a good thing to get second college interview?

focus on the fact that if they’ve offered you another interview, they clearly think you could be good enough for an offer! they wouldn’t waste their time on giving a second interview to someone who performed very badly.

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Anonymous #1

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Original post by Anonymous

focus on the fact that if they’ve offered you another interview, they clearly think you could be good enough for an offer! they wouldn’t waste their time on giving a second interview to someone who performed very badly.

Yeah, I am actually hoping to receive second college interview that means at least I have a chance to be pooled. But no news yet!

Reply 5

Stiffy Byng

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Roughly one in four offers of places will be made by a college other than the college applied to.

A rule for lawyers: do not seek to draw inferences when you have no evidential basis on which to do so. If you don't know, you don't know.

To put it in US TV lawyer show terms -

"Objection: speculative."

Reply 6

Anonymous #3

I had my first college interviews on December 9 and 10, where I met with both a professor and a PhD candidate. I just received an email inviting me for a third interview with another college, but I'm unsure if this is a positive sign. Does this mean that the first college isn’t interested in me?

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Anonymous #4

Original post by Anonymous

I had my first college interviews on December 9 and 10, where I met with both a professor and a PhD candidate. I just received an email inviting me for a third interview with another college, but I'm unsure if this is a positive sign. Does this mean that the first college isn’t interested in me?

What time did you receive the email? When is the 3rd interview?

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Anonymous #1

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According to Oxford website if you didn’t hear from them by 10am today you don’t have a third interview. Third interview is scheduled for tomorrow.

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Anonymous #5

Original post by Anonymous

I had my first college interviews on December 9 and 10, where I met with both a professor and a PhD candidate. I just received an email inviting me for a third interview with another college, but I'm unsure if this is a positive sign. Does this mean that the first college isn’t interested in me?

Me too. I’m so nervous now because I don’t know what it means. But it’s alright. Best of luck!

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Anonymous #4

Original post by Anonymous

Me too. I’m so nervous now because I don’t know what it means. But it’s alright. Best of luck!

What time did you receive the email?

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Stiffy Byng

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Original post by Anonymous

I had my first college interviews on December 9 and 10, where I met with both a professor and a PhD candidate. I just received an email inviting me for a third interview with another college, but I'm unsure if this is a positive sign. Does this mean that the first college isn’t interested in me?

It is a positive sign. It does not guarantee success, but it shows that you are still in contention for an offer.

It might be, for example, that college A has eight places and you are its ninth best candidate, and college B is interested in your application.

The aim is to make offers to the top ten percent or so of all applicants, across the University. About one in four offer recipients will be receiving the offer from a college not applied to.

But to speculate is pointless. Do your best at the interview. Good luck!

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Anonymous #6

Original post by jazleen12

Wow thanks for the motivation mate. I only had 2 interviews, no third one.

Anyone any idea if 3 rd interview did not go well, does this mean no place? It was very challenging do think I have blown it

Reply 13

Stiffy Byng

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Original post by Anonymous

Anyone any idea if 3 rd interview did not go well, does this mean no place? It was very challenging do think I have blown it

Nobody can answer that question except the people who interviewed you. I know that it's tough, but now you can only wait.

People sometimes under-estimate or indeed over-estimate how they have done. Being put under pressure might well be a good sign. The interviewers will sometimes push hard, to bring out the strengths in a candidate. They are testing for potential and do not expect candidates to be perfect. If you obtain a place, you can expect tutorials to be challenging.

Best of luck!

Reply 14

Anonymous #3

Finished my 3rd law interview (first 2 are from chosen college, this one is from another college).
The interview format are quite different. The first two, no pre-reading, but are questions challenged by prof/tutor. The third one, they send me pre-reading 30 minutes earlier, a very long one with 10+ pages. I think I did better in the 3rd one.

I did research on the admission statistic, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/Law%20Admissions%20Report%202024.pdf

2125 applied, 598 invited to interview, 241 offers were made: 190 for Jurisprudence and 51 for Law with Law Studies in Europe.
157 received 2nd college interview, 73 were made an offer. 24 of these offers were made by College 2.

Finger cross...

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Anonymous #3