<p>Are there any CCers here who applied/ going to apply to Oxford?</p>
<p>Do I have to take the admission exam if I already have good test scores? Is it mandatory? How can I prepare for the E&M interview? They sound scary to me lol. Any advice appreciated :)</p>
<p>Thanks, and good luck/congrats.</p>
<p>I'll be applying next year. Thankfully I don't have to take any kind of admissions exam as I'm doing IB diploma. I don't know about the interview, I think it depends on your intended major.</p>
<p>i applied for modern history</p>
<p>the interview was pretty grueling...i was given a text, i read it and made notes, and then discussed with a lady who had a humongous reputation among scholars pretty much anywhere...made me kind of nervous</p>
<p>there was some chit chat though.....i had to take the HAT-History Aptitude Test, and send in written work as well</p>
<p>i received an ego boost in the mail a few weeks later, but decided that going abroad to study wouldnt be so great for 4 whole years</p>
<p>wow whatever... i am jealous :) I applied for Modern history and politics... and was rejected. I had to go have an interview in Vancouver, but it wasn't nearly as scary as i thought it would be... you just read a passage and then they ask you questions about it, but the interviewer was nice and then she asked me questions about why i wanted to go to oxford. Of course, i didn't get in so i could have really tanked the interview. </p>
<p>I also had to take the HAT, which wasn't that bad either, kind of like the free response section of an AP. We never get our scores though so i don't know how i did. </p>
<p>I think i didn't get in for a number of reasons: my subject is relatively small, and i applied to a pretty selective college (magdalen) instead of an open application, which is apparently easier. also, my written work was really bad because the history class i took junior year didn't require very many papers, so i didn't really have anything good to send in :(. also, my school doesn't offer APs, so the only APs i had taken were self-study which i got 4s on... and i think they like it if you have alot of APs w/ high scores on them. </p>
<p>Enough justification for my rejection :). anyway, oxford is amazing but be prepared for a much more intense and confusing application process.</p>
<p>I got in to Oxford for Law and I'm going there.</p>
<p>Which school at Oxford is the least selective for E&M? How selective is Exeter?</p>
<p>I applied as an international student, and was advised by my school to apply OPEN, and not to any specific college - unless you visit, or have any specific reason to want to apply to a certain college, I'd suggest an Open Application as the way to go.</p>
<p>shoot you got in to oxford? for law? just a Q (im interested in going to oxbridge for laws too..) where are you from? <em>the whole commonwealth thing</em> really, how was the interview? i sorta fell in love with the Bodleian liabrary virtual tour, neat.</p>
<p>The interview is plain insane.</p>
<p>My cousin applied for engineering and they asked his VERY wierd questions. Two I remember were:</p>
<p>1.) List 21 uses for a brick.
2.) Reasons he would NOT attend Oxford.</p>
<p>They're pretty creative :D</p>
<p>Apply for your grad, unless your parents can pay all your tuition.
I did a summer program there under oxbridge academic programs and stayed at Pembroke...but id say the nicest college is New College or Magdalen</p>
<p>prop, I am a student in Singapore. Go for it! If you have any specific qns feel free to PM me.</p>
<p>I thought my interview went well - I think its a pretty major factor. I was pretty nervous, not sure what to expect, but its exactly what they tell you. You read an article for 15-20 mins cant rmb exactly how long now, and then the tutor discusses it with you. </p>
<p>She asked open-ended questions with a view to looking at how you think, so I told her what I thought. I had no law-specific knowledge, but it is pretty much common sense. She asked a couple of questions about me as a person, but no far out, left field questions. though I did hear of another such question to my friend for engineering at cambridge.</p>
<p>Actually keenya, Oxbridge is relatively cheaper than US unis. Not only Ivies, but Oxford works out cheaper than, say, Berkeley. tuition is GBP 10000, living half that, and in most colleges you get guaranteed housing throughout.</p>
<p>ahluwalia, don't forget the college fee - this year's costs, including airfare, books, meals, room, and spending money added up to about $39,500.</p>
<p>Klanman, here is the link for last year's admissions stats - you can see numbers and percentages by college and by subject - a number of useful charts. There are also a few threads in The Student Room about E&M applications.</p>
<p>propapanda, law is, as you probably know, very competitive - check the charts in the admissions statistics. You might want to go to The Student Room to the Oxbridge forum and start reading the threads from law applicants for more info.</p>
<p>Yes keenya, but comparatively, i am quite sure UK is overall cheaper that US.</p>
<p>KlanMan: You asked in your OP whether you have to take the admission exam if you already have good test scores. The answer is yes, if it's a subject that sets an exam or test (not all do, but E&M does; there's a specimen on the OU website). </p>
<p>I believe that all colleges are pretty competitive for E&M as it's one of the most popular subjects relative to places available. In any case it would be evened out by the university's pooling system, so if some colleges are oversubscribed they will pass some of their candidates over to colleges that had fewer applicants. As ahluwalia said, many overseas applicants put in open applications. The only thing is, if you are female (I assume by your name that you're not!) that increases the chances that you will end up at St Hilda's, which is the only remaining single-sex college.</p>
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<p>Tution is very cheap compared to those of Ivy League schools. I heard it was around $15k.</p>
<p>for international students, fee is GBP 10000.</p>
<p>for law there is a compulsory exam called LNAT check out <a href="http://www.lnat.ac.uk%5B/url%5D">www.lnat.ac.uk</a></p>
<p>OP, I applied to Oxford this (or last, rather) year for the Engineering, Econ, and Management program. The focus is - by LARGE - on your test scores and interview. They don't even ask for your transcript (yeah...***?). To prepare for interview where they give you something to read to start discussion with (mine was on seminconductors), read magazines/journals on your topic.</p>
<p>It worked out fairly well for me and I got in, but I chose Princeton instead.</p>
<p>Thanks, but anyone have some insight for E&M?</p>
<p>How much is the tution at LSE?</p>