Does Oxford have overflow applications at this time or am I being lied to?

Hi! First year history undergrad at Oxford here. I commute back and forth from Oxford to my home city pretty regularly for some societies I’m maintaining and while I was there I met somebody a year younger than me, let’s call her Stephanie, who seemed pretty keen on the fact that I was going to Oxford (as did her mum, who is clearly One Of Those parents and has been trying to toady up to me and my mum since about the autumn.) Stephanie herself seems quite nice but a little bit too sycophantic around me if that makes sense? However I thought nothing of it until the past month or so when she’s been telling me that she applied to Oxford too, for entry in MT25, and only just had her interview literally last week and is now waiting to hear back. I’ve asked her several times about why it’s happened so late because to my knowledge the admissions process is over by January?? And she’s been very flippant/evasive about how oh she doesn’t know haha! until literally this week when she told me she thinks that the college had too many applications so they’re having overflow interviews at the moment. I’m pretty sure I’m being lied to, but does anyone know if Oxford actually does this?

TL;DR: does oxford ever do interviews in March or is this person full of it?

Reply 1

PS Reviewer

Did she say what subject and college she applied for?

Reply 2

Stiffy Byng

Perhaps this person has applied for a Foundation year. The undergraduate admission process has finished, but the Foundation year places are still up for grabs

Reply 3

mayabee8

Original post by PQ

Did she say what subject and college she applied for?

LMH, for history and politics if I remember correctly?

Reply 4

mayabee8

Original post by Stiffy Byng

Perhaps this person has applied for a Foundation year. The undergraduate admission process has finished, but the Foundation year places are still up for grabs

Good point, will enquire that

Reply 5

BetaVersion2.9

Astrophoria foundation year interviews were held recently.

Reply 6

Stiffy Byng

The person you mention might feel a bit shy about being a Foundation Year candidate. There would be no reason to feel shy, because the Foundation Year scheme exists for good reasons, but people may feel embarrassed about socio-economic and educational disadvantage. It is of course mere accident that makes one person more or less privileged by circumstance than any other person.