The "I've been pooled" thread

My saq remains inactive. the distress of this all is subsiding, i'm kind of bored of it instead! a good thing probably but no doubt panic willlllllllllll return

What the hell!? I can't login to the SAQ now, after my college had changed to New Hall. It does say "System error" instead of "application no longer active" but I have no idea why it doesnt work

AHHH who knows what all this means - I'm bored of collecting new crumbs of information every two minutes!

coffee27: hehe I don't think what happened to you will affect anything...sounds like a genuine error, but that raises questions like, who's been tampering with your name?

I thought you cannot get "pooled" in Oxford? I assume they either give you an offer or rejection unlike Cambridge where there is a pool for colleges to look through. I always thought an Oxford pool was when you didn't get into your 1st choice college but another college accepted so there is no waiting unlike Cambridge.

It looks like there are two phases to the pooling - the initial one where colleges grab who they are most interested in, calling them for interview or making an offer directly, and then the second phase where they fill up the last remaining places (like for where someone is rejected after a pool interview). I'm guessing (and it's only speculation), since interviews begin tomorrow, the first stage is over, so files are going back to colleges.

silvertine: i don't think it's possible that i made a mistake.. UCAS form is correct and my oversea application is double checked by my referee and couple of my friends also looked at it so if there was a mistake, it should have been spotted. Maybe i made a mistake when i was filling up SAQ... though it's very unlikely. no one would split his name by mistake.... i'm thinking the computer automatically split up my name cause my first name has two words in it. Typical korean name.. what to do..

My SAQ is now active (was inactive before), and my college is still stated as the one I was pooled from (Clare). Any idea what that means?

That sounds logical. However I guess if a college takes in x number of applicants for a second round of interviews, but none of them were good enough, they might still draw from the pool. So nothing's lost yet!

no i was thinking that it was a genuine error on their part, not yours ...which led me to the question of who's been tampering with the name... you could take rnshan's advice and thrust a bribe, although, they might put you in a 'bribe pool' hehe

no i was thinking that it was a genuine error on their part, not yours ...which led me to the question of who's been tampering with the name... you could take rnshan's advice and thrust a bribe, although, they might put you in a 'bribe pool' hehe