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Oxford PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Students and Applicants

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Reply 2640
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ben_l
I recently graduated with a first-class degree in English from Manchester and am thinking about senior status PPE at Oxford. Anyone know anything about this/anyone who has done it?
ben_l
I recently graduated with a first-class degree in English from Manchester and am thinking about senior status PPE at Oxford. Anyone know anything about this/anyone who has done it?


I would recommend scouring the Oxford site for info on this, and if there is little there, then how about contacting a tutor or admissions secretary from a college you are interested in?
Reply 2642
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hobnob
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ben_l
I recently graduated with a first-class degree in English from Manchester and am thinking about senior status PPE at Oxford. Anyone know anything about this/anyone who has done it?

You realise that as a second BA you wouldn't be eligible for any government funding, don't you? That means you'd have to pay college fees (about £5,200 per year) on top of your tuition fees. And since government subsidies for second degrees were withdrawn last year, the fees for second BAs could potentially rise above the £3,000 odd of the regular fees. In the most optimistic scenario, you'd be looking at about £23,000 (£10,500 in college fees, £6,500 in tuition fees and about £6,000 worth of battels) for those two years for which you'd have to self-fund - and that wouldn't even include food and any other expenses you might have.
Unless money really isn't an issue, I'd think twice about this if I were you...
Reply 2643
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pf1
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ben_l
I recently graduated with a first-class degree in English from Manchester and am thinking about senior status PPE at Oxford. Anyone know anything about this/anyone who has done it?


http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/how_to_apply/graduate_applicants.html

Finances are an issue, though note that Harris Manchester offer bursaries.
pf1
http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/how_to_apply/graduate_applicants.html

Finances are an issue, though note that Harris Manchester offer bursaries.


Sorry for being off-topic here, but I what does it mean by this?

Senior Status exempts students from the First Public Examination, thereby entering students directly into the second year of the degree.


Does this mean that candidates are

a) not required to take First (end-of-the-year) University examinations?
OR
b) not required to take entrance exams such as an Interview, written exam(TSA), written works, so to speak.

I'm a bit confused about the word 'public'
Thanks in advance. :smile:
Reply 2645
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pf1
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Jong Il Kim
Does this mean that candidates are

a) not required to take First (end-of-the-year) University examinations?
OR
b) not required to take entrance exams such as an Interview, written exam(TSA), written works, so to speak.


It means the former. The application process is the same. 'Public' means the official, part-of-your-degree, all-students-have-to-do-it examination rather than just internal college papers like collections.

If you do a degree with Senior Status, you effectively start the course in the second year. So in the case of PPE, you would probably do only two of the three subjects.
Reply 2646
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ben_l
hobnob I do realize this yes. I expect to take on significant debt no matter what I do postgraduate but I am eager to do something worthwhile, this seems like a good option
Yay Warwick offer :biggrin:
Reply 2648
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Mike_P
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everestek
Yay Warwick offer :biggrin:


Wow, gratz! Well done :biggrin:.
Thanks dude...have you heard from anywhere yet?
I want an offer :frown:
Reply 2651
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Mike_P
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No, =(. This wait is really getting me..

London Prophet:
:P
I see you wanna do PPE over again?
Would a current student (or perhaps a fellow prospective student) be so kind as to tell me what metaphysics is, in the context of freedom (Berlin and MacCallum)? I've read what the internet says it is, but I'm having some difficultly grasping it in this context. Thanks.

(I don't feel it justifies a new thread.)
London Prophet
I want an offer :frown:


lol
Reply 2654
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Talexe
Metamorphosis_S
Ooh do English, Maths, History and German. Those are my exact subjects (but with Philosophy as well).
They're well good.
But check in a couple of weeks in case I get rejected, then maybe rethink those.

Thanks! They're still my most likely options. Also, my school makes everyone do Critical Thinking as a fifth AS, but not much need to bother with that. I'm also probably going to get involved in DofE and volunteer work in the sixth form.

Any advice from PPE applicants, students or graduates is appreciated! :yep:
Dan-IW
Would a current student (or perhaps a fellow prospective student) be so kind as to tell me what metaphysics is, in the context of freedom (Berlin and MacCallum)? I've read what the internet says it is, but I'm having some difficultly grasping it in this context. Thanks.

(I don't feel it justifies a new thread.)


I don't think metaphysics is closely related to the issue of freedom; it is more to do with explaining why and what things are. But it can also be extended to the question on whether we have free will, or if our every action is predetermined by nature and circumstance.
lazzarus
I don't think metaphysics is closely related to the issue of freedom; it is more to do with explaining why and what things are. But it can also be extended to the question on whether we have free will, or if our every action is predetermined by nature and circumstance.


Ye, in the context it seems to be whether free will is genuine, but that doesn't always seem to be the case, which is making it quite confusing.

Thanks for the help.
Dan-IW
but that doesn't always seem to be the case,

huh?
lazzarus
huh?


Well, it's not always interchangeable with that aspect of the concept, or at least it doesn't seem to be. It's a quite confusing book, so I shan't worry about it too much.
Oh I see. What book is this?

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