Chance a current university student for Oxford

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Hi all,

I’m an incoming freshman at my flag-ship state university, intending to apply to Oxford to study Oriental Studies- Sanskrit. I know Oxford does not accept transfer students, so I will be starting over from year 1. Anyways, these are my stats:

ACT 35

AP English Language (5)
AP Literature (5)
APUSH (5)
AP Art History (5)
AP Comparative Government (5)
AP Chemistry (3) oof :confused:

SAT Subject Test US History (750)
SAT Subject Test English Literature (780)
SAT Subject Test World History (770)
SAT Subject Test French w/out Listening (720) oof?

I’m also an intern at a museum of Tibetan art, located in a nearby major city, and said to be home to one of the United States’ most extensive collections of Himalayan artifacts. I thought I could write about that in my personal statement, as it is a relevant EC. Additionally, I’m of Indian origin, fluent in an Indian language (not Sanskrit though), and I love to read the literature of South Asia, particularly contemporary (eg: Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, R.K. Narayan), although I also enjoy older, more religious works. Thanks for all your help!

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Don’t forget to figure out the written work you are going to submit- if you don’t have something in hand already, look at your courses for this autumn to see what might work- otherwise you will have to write something specifically for the app.

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Thank you for your help! I have saved two essays from high school, from my AP Lit class and AP Comp Gov class, and had the written works forms filled out, but I want to see if I’d be able to submit something I wrote whilst at university. I’m taking mostly English and South Asian Studies classes, so something is bound to come up!