<p>As in oxford uni in england? I thought they don't accept transfers?</p>
<p>They accept visiting students from abroad for up to a year of study.</p>
<p>PierreMarie, I was actually contemplating doing the same thing for my junior year (I'm a rising sophomore). </p>
<p>Mind if I PM you for details?</p>
<p>xeacon, I didn't say I was going to transfer to Oxford. I'll just be spending my junior year there.</p>
<p>Kash_Money, I think it's a good alternative to transferring. Go ahead, I'll wait for your message :)</p>
<p>Haha okok. My bad for the wrong assumption.</p>
<p>PierreMarie - How hard is it to apply for a year at Oxford?</p>
<p>Current School: Manchester Community College
Entering as: Junior
High School GPA: 2.7ish (uw... i have no clue how to weight it)
College GPA: 3.9X (awaiting grades this semester) through 67 credits
SAT/ACT Scores: 1300 (old system... 750 math 550 verb)
SAT II Scores: hah...
Significant ECs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Highschool (who cares I'm a 30yr old transfer) </li>
<li>USMC
-- many distinguished letters, medals, awards
-- very high pros and cons (military grades)</li>
<li>MCC
-- PTK member
-- Peer Math Tutor (quit high paying job b/c i love math and hate accounting like you have no idea)</li>
</ul>
<p>Applied to: Wesleyan, UConn (its free for me as a veteran)
Accepted: Wesleyan, UConn
Waitlisted: None
Rejected: None</p>
<p>Likely Attending: Wesleyan</p>
<p>majoringbio, it is quite a rigorous process. some top US universities (Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Stanford) have partnerships with Oxford, so getting admitted to Oxford as a visiting student from these schools is pretty much guaranteed.</p>
<p>if you're applying through organizations such as IFSA-Butler, it is less of a burden--but you'd have to spend more. If you're applying through the university's main admissions office/through the Oxford college of your choice, it is almost like the regular application process, minus the interview.</p>
<p>Usually the first thing they consider is your academic record--your grades and your choice of courses and their suitability for the course you want to study at Oxford.</p>
<p>i quote from several students in the student room . co . uk:</p>
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i think the difficulty of getting in really depends on what college you want to go to and how you do it. In order to get into LMH, Catz or Pembroke through Butler or Arcadia it doesn't seem that hard (providing you do have excellent grades, but I presume from the fact you're applying that you do). For some others, the challenge lies in getting selected by their home university (such as the Columbia-Brown-Penn program) and for others applying direct it's really hard to say (how I basically did it).</p>
<p>If you want to go to some of colleges with fewer visiting students that don't take people through programs, I imagine it's harder.
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visiting students are ... assessed to the same exacting standards, if not higher (due to the larger ratio of applicants to places) than normal undergraduates.
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<p>Thanks for the info :)
Do you know if any non-ivy 2nd to 4th tier universities/colleges have partnerships with Oxford?</p>
<p>Current School: American University
Entering as: Sophomore
High School GPA: Top 10%
College GPA: 4.0 at application, 3.9 after spring semester
SAT/ACT Scores: SAT: 2210
SAT II Scores: Chem 770, World History 630, Math II 670
Significant ECs: Successful debater in high school, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, started a progressive magazine on campus
Major Applied For: Philosophy, Arch Studies at Brown as well</p>
<p>Applied to: Brown, UChicago, Pomona
Accepted: Brown, Pomona
Waitlisted: Pending
Rejected: Pending</p>
<p>Likely Attending: Pending</p>
<p>how did u find out about pomona already?????????????????</p>
<p>Email at around 7:30 tonight. Good luck!</p>
<p>i guess i'm rejected................... :(
no email... ur talking about claremont pomona right?
i thought they were not doing emails...
or is it cal poly?</p>
<p>They emailed you? They specifically said they would not email accepted students... That we would all find out by regular mail?</p>
<p>Btw, Guincho if you don't mind me asking where are you located?</p>
<p>i asked el guincho via PM about it and he sent me the email....its true and it looks legit. </p>
<p>I guess i got rejected :(</p>
<p>can you post your email here if that's true?
everyone who applied to pomona is now going crazy because of your post.
I thought they only do traditional mail notifications.</p>
<p>omg... my heart's sinking............................ :(:(
i'm gonna cry</p>
<p>well, im going to post it since it didnt have his/her name on it so i assume that he/she wont mind.</p>
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POMONA COLLEGE</p>
<p>Office Of Admissions</p>
<p>Let me start with a simple, CONGRATULATIONS. We are thrilled to be able to offer you admission to Pomona College as a transfer student.</p>
<p>We had promised to get our decision into your hands by May, 15 and have turned to email to get word to you quickly, with the formal, hard-copy offer of admission already in the mail. A PDF copy of that letter is attached. Because the letter includes important information about enrollment and next-steps I urge you to read the letter carefully.</p>
<p>The admission offer packet will include enrollment information and, if you submitted a financial aid application, a letter from the Office of Financial Aid, as well.</p>
<p>We look forward to working with you.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Bruce Poch
Vice President and</p>
<p>Dean of Admissions</p>
<p>POMONA COLLEGE
Claremont, California
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<p>in the interest of keeping this thread of good use to future transfer students, would it be possible to move this discussion to the (a?) pomona thread. best of luck to all of you, pomona is a fantastic school</p>
<p>Damn it.</p>
<p>W/e. This is how it goes I guess.</p>
<p>Congrats to those who got in.</p>
<p>Sorry I ventured away from the computer for a while. I didn't realize this would simulate such interest. They said in the attached letter that they admitted 10 students this year, so I'd assume they only sent the email to accepted students.</p>
<p>I'm located in Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Current School: UCLA
Entering as: Sophomore
High School GPA: 4.0 W, 3.7 UW from a top private prep school
College GPA: ~3.8
SAT/ACT Scores: SAT: 2300
SAT II Scores: Literature 760, Math IIC 730
Significant ECs: in high school - yearbook editor, events chair for alumni committee, student admissions officer, crisis & support team leader. in college - on various student government committees, floor government, internship at Sony
Major Applied For: Philosophy </p>
<p>Applied to: Brown, Columbia, Georgetown, Northwestern, Penn, Tufts, Yale
Accepted: Tufts
Waitlisted:
Rejected: Brown, Columbia, Yale
Pending: Georgetown, Northwestern, Penn</p>
<p>Likely Attending: Pending</p>
<p>blaghhhh</p>