Oxford interviews and overnight stay

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DD has applied to Oxford university and if she is lucky enough to be offered an interview is worried she may have to stay at the college for up to 3 days by herself. Please could someone let me know how this works? DD has suggested that I travel with her and stay in a b&b so that she can meet me when she has finished her interview(s). Any advice would be gratefully received.

I also read that on the student room (about the fatness of the letters) they said that a second letter (if sent from the second college) would arrive a few days later.
The school will also find out on the same day. Perhaps they will tell them. I have no idea what the etiquette of this situation will be. Perhaps it would be an infringement of the pupil's privacy to be told by the school.

horsemadmom our post is completely random too in terms of delivery time and the postman also leaves it on the gate or throws it over so it frequently blows away in high winds, or turns to mulch in the rain.... Needless to say I was on sentry duty last year and caught the letter as it flew over the gate :)

Funnily enough the college your DD applied to initially was the only one to send a thin letter in an ordinary sized envelope followed a couple of days later by a letter with bumph. Four colleges sent great big fat A4 envelopes including their bumph and one college phoned then sent bumph. I really think Oxford likes to mix it up! If you're pooled it's not the case that both colleges invariably send letters but if the second college sends a letter it will always be good news - if it's a rejection from both the first college will be the bearer.

I think Ill be drinking champagne whatever the outcome...
Ill be pleased it will all be over. The wait and preparation for this has been a bit like applying for secondary school(selective).

We had a slim normal business sized letter here. Envelope of good quality ( couldn't see anything through it - letter folded so that no useful information could be seen through the address window. I tried. )

I wonder what Phoebe's insurance is - Felpersham?

Good luck to all for tomorrow.

Thanks for the tip on letter size and quantity, Molio. Read somewhere that they have to send student finance stuff with the letter this year to bring them in line with all other unis. Which ever way it comes, I am not looking forward to staring at my daughter's future, sealed and impervious to light, taunting me all day with it's secrets.

caught the letter as it flew over the gate
On the TSR Oxford thread there is lots of speculating on letter size etc, and someone on p72 has set up a survey for people to complete for the benefit of next years' applicants re shape/size of letter, heading of email etc..
Interestingly one poster (same page, I think) said that (last year) she got two letters - a thin one form her main college and a thicker one another college. She had applied for English and Classics, and as the thicker envelope was from a college she only had classics interviews at, not English, she guessed before opening that it would be for single classics, and that she had been declined for English and Classics at the original college.
(her post explains more eloquently that mine!)
Interesting that she would examine the envelopes and draw that (correct) conclusion before opening.
I am not sure if I am working tomorrow (freelance) so may be at home if the letter arrives. DS will hope it and then come in and tell me the response. If it is positive I will offer to take him and his bro out to lunch. Not sure what to do otherwise - any ideas???

I wonder what Phoebe's insurance is - Felpersham?

Well you wouldnt want to do this (necessarily)

DD has drinkies with her friends in the diary. Honestly, her school is like a psychiatric ward on Oxbridge decision days. Girls huddled crying or turning cartwheels down the corridors. Whole forests sacrificed for kleenex consumption.

My dd said all the Oxford applicants awaiting a decision tomorrow have been completely hyped up today. Lots of panic and drama and driving everyone else around the bend.

Dd will be emailed tomorrow and said all students troop in one by one to see the head of 6th form, who will have a big box of tissues on her desk.

I have DS here and a friend of his staying who both went through this last year. They have friends from school who applied this year with results in hand - so, not the same as going through it with your own, but I think we will have some phone calls ( and I hope congratulations ) tomorrow.

Fingers crossed for all

Hocus

Can't sleep. DD didn't bother to revise for her mock tomorrow- too nervous, distracted, borderline manic. Anyone else awake and stressing?

school is like a psychiatric ward on Oxbridge decision days.
It must be so difficult! Luckily for DS, his school does not go back till tomorrow so the DC getting Oxford emails and letters will ( hopefully) be today, so they have the privacy - tho' of course since they are all connected 24/7 radio silence will presumably be an indicator of those disappointed.
I feel sorry for the Cambridge applicants who won't here till they are all back at school, and a week later (I think?) so will already have seen happiness and sadness all around them.
Good luck to all ox-applicant DC of posters on here today - they are already so lucky having mums who care so much!