Oxford undergrad college reallocation ?

Hi, I recently got an offer to study Japanese at Oxford and I'm really excited. I'm just confused though, because I got reallocated to a college I didn't apply for 😅 Initially I had sent in an open application and then was allocated to Wadham. Did the interviews, didn't get invited to a third one, but my offer is from Hertford. I'm not complaining, just confused lol. Did anyone else get reallocated despite not sitting a third interview ?

Hi, I recently got an offer to study Japanese at Oxford and I'm really excited. I'm just confused though, because I got reallocated to a college I didn't apply for 😅 Initially I had sent in an open application and then was allocated to Wadham. Did the interviews, didn't get invited to a third one, but my offer is from Hertford. I'm not complaining, just confused lol. Did anyone else get reallocated despite not sitting a third interview ?

Nice!! I applied for Persian at Pembroke initially, but ended up being pooled to Wadham. I think some colleges specialise in certain AMES courses, like Wadham which specialises in Persian. Whilst I did do a third interview, I was speaking to a 4th year Persian student and he said that in his cohort everyone got automatically reallocated to Wadham for convenience so maybe this is the case?