<p>I have never considered applying to Cambridge or Oxford, so I would like to learn about the process and rules. I am a terrible college student looking to transfer to a top tier university within the next couple years. </p>
<p>I understand it is nearly impossible to Transfer to Cambridge or Oxford, but I heard that a college student can apply as a first year undergraduate. Almost as if the student is at a prep school preparing for Cambridge or Oxford. Does anyone have any knowledge about that?</p>
<p>Both unis have clear instruction on their websites, including for internationals such as yourself. However, I know that you got a 1.6 at EMU and transferred to UMich( Dearborn)-- that’d be a sign that applying to unis like OxBridge are completely unrealistic for you. UMDrbrn is a respectable place. Focus on doing well there.</p>
<p>Never have doubts, T26E4. Did I have doubts when applying as a transfer to Michigan, no. Also, I never met Michigan’s transfer requirements and was still granted admission. Never have doubts.
Sorry, but Nether Univ website answer my question, and nether do you. </p>
<p>Is OxBridge a nickname for Oxford and Cambridge?</p>
<p>I understand it is nearly impossible to Transfer to Cambridge or Oxford, but I heard that a college student can apply as a first year undergraduate. Almost as if the student is at a prep school preparing for Cambridge or Oxford. Does anyone have any knowledge about that?</p>
<p>Yes, Oxbridge (no capital B) is the common umbrella term for referring to Oxford and Cambridge.</p>
<p>I think this is the page you’re looking for:
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<p>There’s nothing to stop you applying, but I’m afraid I have to chime in with those suggesting you are unlikely to gain admission based on the information you have divulged. Oxford is looking for the very best students, not those who admit to being “terrible”.</p>
<p>You can only apply to Oxford OR Cambridge.
You do apply as a freshman.
You will need to have your application (UCAS website) ready by October. Then, if you make the first cut, you’ll have to sit a very long essay exam. Then, if you do well on that exam, you will have an “interview”, which is a long oral examination about everything you know related to the subject you intend to study at the university, plus anything they feel like asking you. You need to read at least 12 books on your subject, you will find a bibliography on each subject’s webpage. (You can only apply for one subject).
You need to read these websites carefully and sift through the requirements: which subject can you “read” (major in) based on what your best subjects are? If they require Calculus BC and you stopped at Algebra 2 or Precalculus, cross out these majors.
Before you can even consider applying, you will need 5 AP scores of 5 (the exact exams are required, and depend on the subject you wish to study; most will require English language or English literature, plus the subject you intend to study, plus 3 others). So you need to register for that and start studying for these 5 AP classes; the exams are in May.
You also need to familiarize yourself with the “college” system (whereby a college is a “school within a school”, with dorms, professors, study rooms, etc.) You want to look for the less-old colleges or the colleges accross the Cam (the river) because they’re slightly easier to get into.
(note that “easier” still means 5 AP scores of 5 at a minimum).
Essentially, in May you’ll take your 5 AP exams, and you’ll learn fairly quickly whether you’ll be allowed to apply, or not.</p>
<p>I’ve just read some of your threads. Are you really still this clueless? </p>
<p>If you were smart, you would have just went to community college, like everyone told you, out of HS and, proved yourself with As especially in core subjects like Calculus. Then you could have transferred directly into Ross. Sure it’s not IVY league but it’s still damn good. </p>
<p>Instead you went to some regional school, proved how horrible of a student you were with a 1.xx GPA and…</p>
<p>Point Blank. You don’t have a shot at ANY top school. More importantly you flat out do not deserve it. People have worked their butts off to achieve those schools while all you’ve done is flunked classes. You are entitled to the max.</p>
<p>Bomerr: s/he needs to get 5 AP5s in May. That will make the decision.</p>
<p>I agree that community college and transferring into Ross would have been an amazing solution but I guess ego got in the way. I’m not sure actually how Ross is not “Ivy League”. </p>
<p>5 AP5 is the basic requirement, there’s also the 12-15 academic books to read. So, if OP gets 5 AP5s and reads 12-15 academic books, he’ll have the right to send his UCAS application, and then he’ll see.</p>
<p>University of Michigan is not an Ivy League school, it is public. Ross is their business program. Given the option, as a freshman, of Ross or an Ivy, I would choose the Ivy. But as a CC transfer, Ross is very good option.</p>
<p>You can only take AP courses while still in High School. This is because AP courses are considered the equivalent to college courses. (most of them really aren’t but that’s not the point.) OP already enrolled and received a 1.2 gpa from Eastern Michigan University.</p>
<p>Bomerr, not sure whether your previous comment was general or addressed to my comment about Ross, but for prestigiosity* purpose, Ross is like an Ivy. if a student who had no chance to get into any Ivy had a chance to get into Ross via the community college route or a directional, then I would imagine that either they’re not that drivenin the first place, or someone’s ego got in the way if they picked the directional over the CC+Ross process.</p>
<p>And obviously OP wouldn’t take high school courses. OP would need to register for AP exams and self study, or take corresponding college classes to help him/her self study.
For the purpose of Oxbridge admission, AP exams are supposed to replace A-Levels, but because A-Levels are more thorough, they want to see 5, including English typically (because English GCSE is a prerequisite for any course read at Oxbridge, ie, for any major.)</p>
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<li>This is the word we use to describe prestige as ascribed to some national institutions - usually related to students who focus on the wrong aspect of the college admission process. Emphasizes the subjectivity of the concept.</li>
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<p>My friends who have gone to Michigan have said Ross is like the Ivy reject school. The same offers that come easy to Ivy students require a bit more work and effort at Ross. It’s still good just not Ivy. </p>
<p>You can’t take APs after high school. AP means advanced placement, it is literally an option for HS students to get college credits from HS work. Post-HS you would just take the equivalent course at your uni/college.</p>
<p>I’m going to chime in here with a different opinion. I don’t know the OP’s situation, so this is much more of a general remark rather than one germane to the OP specifically, but I do want to challenge the notion that Oxford never, ever, takes people with non-traditional or even poor academic backgrounds.</p>
<p>I’ve been at Oxford a long, long time, and tutors are interested in one thing and one thing only: your intellectual ability and aptitude for your chosen subject. Now, 99% of the time, that’s conveyed via the traditional route: good grades, great written work, etc, etc. But there ARE people in Oxford who come from non-traditional backgrounds – people who apply having left school at 16 to work, only to discover years later that they want a university education, people from all walks of life who have found their path a little later than others.</p>
<p>One of the Oxford colleges, Harris Manchester, is open only to students who are at least 21 years old at the time of matriculation (although all colleges take mature students in theory). The tutors there have seen and continue to see a variety of applicants from nontraditional backgrounds. If the OP has suddenly discovered an incredible love for, I don’t know, Russian literature, along with a brilliant talent for it – it’s not completely impossible. Unlikely, sure, but Oxford’s quirky that way.</p>