Is the oxford international acceptance rate lower for us students provided we require their initial qualifications? Will our chances be diminished if we are poor?
You won’t be able to afford Oxford if you are poor. They don’t provide financial aid and almost no scholarships (and they are small).
Their acceptance rate by country can be easily found online.
Also, if you are looking at med school, going to uni in the UK makes no sense. You pretty much won’t be able to fulfill pre-med requirements there.
will i be able to transfer the costs into loans i can pay later?
Who’s going to loan you the money?
you’re right. so theres nothing an international applicant can do?
oh and i’m not really sure i want to do med to be honest. i am kind of torn between engineering and med
As an overseas student, you will need to provide a financial disclosure form (including bank/brokerage statements) by July 31 before you start to demonstrate that you have enough funds to cover the costs of the first year. You can get US student loans to attend Oxford, but they will come no where close to covering the total cost.
oh so thats after decisions are released though right? is oxford need aware in the sense they judge you based on if you can/can not pay during the admissions process? my uncle said he would help my parents pay if i get in so i wouldn’t need any help paying
Yes, Oxford admission rates are lower for internationals- as @PurpleTitan said, they are easily found on the Oxford website.
Oxford is not need aware in the admissions process. But, as @HazeGrey (whose son will be a fresher this autumn & has first hand info on this!) noted, you will need to show the UK immigration people that you have enough funds in the bank to cover tuition, room & board- figure $40-50K/pa (varies by college and of course exchange rates).
But at least as big an issue is that you aren’t sure what you want to do, and Oxford is really, really, really not the place to do a course that you are not sure about. It is extremely intense, and it is 100% your course 100% of the time. So, if you do engineering that is all you do. Ditto medicine (which, bluntly, you probably have no hope of getting into, b/c they take ~6 international students total into medicine each year- you need to be a global-level star to get into Oxbridge medicine as an international student, and if you were that good you would be looking at places like HYP as pretty solid bets). And, there are no changes / no take backs: if you get there & work out that you really don’t like engineering / medicine you cannot transfer to anything else- you have to start over.
Wait, so would your uncle pay for any Ivies or anything else?
If so, look in to the NYS CC’s and SUNY’s that various Cornell contract colleges have articulation agreements with.