<p>Conflicting advice...</p>
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<p>I called them yesterday. The woman told me we don't have to submit our grades! American students just have to have a strong SAT/ACT score and good scores on the APs that are related to the field you want to study.
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<p>no, it's not. school qualifications = exam scores in the uk.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about Canadian students applying to Oxford? Do I still need to send in my transcripts if I am sending SAT scores?</p>
<p>ajadedidealist: No Andover kids at Oxbridge next year.</p>
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Sure. I flew over, and another acceptee, for Law, did so as well. The final acceptee did not, but he was applying for maths. I've heard it's much, much better to fly over.
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<p>I'm that maths acceptee-- I'd spoken to tutors at my chosen college when I was last there for a visit and it seemed like they didn't expect me to fly over; he just told me about the NYC interviews, never even suggested flying to Oxford for interview. How they view that probably differs by college.</p>
<p>I know someone who is currently in a medical undergraduate program at Cambridge. She had to take some kind of exam for foreign students wishing to matriculate at Oxbridge, and had to go to the British Consulate in Boston to do so. (There were people there from all across the US.) She traveled to Cambridge for an interview, and was accepted pending the results of three required AP exams: Chemistry, Biology, and Calculus (She took BC, but they may have accepted AB.) She was required to get a 5 on the first two, and a 4 on Calculus.</p>
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I know someone who is currently in a medical undergraduate program at Cambridge. She had to take some kind of exam for foreign students wishing to matriculate at Oxbridge, and had to go to the British Consulate in Boston to do so.
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There are NO special exams for foreign students. This exam is BMAT, a compulsory test for all students who wish to apply for medicine, and for some colleges those who wish to apply for Biology/natural Sciences.</p>
<p>on UCAS, and on the oxford website, grade=test score. that is just what you call them. your grade on the SAT, on APs, NOT class grades. oxford never asked me to send a transcript over. In terms of the interview, if you submit your app. by the september deadline, you will get an interview in america; if you don't, you will probably have to fly over. it makes no difference where you do it. your college counselor can register your school as a test center by just filling out a form and sending it so that you can take the test at school. the benefit of the early app. deadline is everyone finds out in december; it's just like getting in early! good luck</p>
<p>^What course did you apply to?</p>
<p>experimental psychology, and i'm doing it next year at magdalen college</p>
<p>I am still a little bit confused about the grades thing, here is why:</p>
<p>The UCAS website asks you to list your qualifications. Among the options are AP tests (where obviously grade = score), SAT tests and the American High School Diploma. If I chose all three of them, what would I enter in the grades section of the High School Diploma if not my high school grades? </p>
<p>And given that the grades sections are specific to the qualification (e.g. the SAT section has a drop-down menu to select 'Critical Reading', 'Writing', 'Math', and the High School Diploma has fields for your overall GPA as well as subject grades), I don't think the grade fields for the high school diploma were meant to be left blank.</p>
<p>The admissions officers at oxford specifically said not to submit class grades, although, in all honesty, other british schools did ask for the transcript to be sent by mail-- oxford was just the exception. (oxford only sees your transcript if you get asked to interview-- i guess to look at your courses, and maybe glance at your grades, but they just give it straight back to you after your interview is over).</p>
<p>So you would be expected to list your grades online and bring a transcript to the interview, but you don't need to mail in an official transcript along with your application? That makes a lot more sense! Thanks :)</p>
<p>So I guess the conclusion is that Oxford sees your grades after all.</p>
<p>My younger brother is studying abroad at Oxford University for one year. He will be living in on-campus housing, and already has the money for that lined up. We are unsure how much the other living costs will be. How much should he budget for food, transportation, light weekend entertainment, etc? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
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<p>In case the OP decides to follow the advice above, he should check first if the science course he chooses to pursue in the UK meets the course requirements for
admission into medical school in the US. Most US medical schools require for example at least one year of university-level physics and university-level math with
calculus. Given the highly specialized nature of British degrees, it is possible that a British BSc in biology for example may not meet those requirements. Cambridge’s
NatSci course probably would be a safe choice though as it allows you to study both physics, chemistry and biology in the first year, plus math.</p>