Oxbridge 2025

[SnowFairy2000]

Let's start the journey here !!!

You never know, they may still receive an invite to interview, depending on subject. It emerged afterwards that DD hadn't done great in the MLAT, but she is there studying now so evidently passed muster in everything else. Another person she knows had done even less well, and ended up being offered a single subject rather than the joint course she had applied for.

DD had an interview with a second college, but was only notified after the first one; and nearly missed it due to an error with their mailing system! You really have to check regularly.

Hoping for good results and interview invites flying in for all current hopefuls.

TenSheds my reply was to the question: do they get notified of a rejection in terms. Last year was a major mess in terms of pre-tests so if your DD sat her pre-test last year you may not be able to extrapolate too much from that.

Another thing to say is that the two college thing is very different across different subjects. Medicine for example has two college interviews as standard (along with almost all other science subjects). These are notified in the interview invite. Your DD would have been pooled after her initial interview, as a humanities applicant. That's a very different thing and as you say, on the spot notice.

My DD was allocated a college today. On the subject interview schedule which is on the Oxford website, the course she is applying for seems to have first interviews scheduled but for further interview and notifications of such, the chart has NA written in it. Same for a few other subjects. I think these are the very popular courses where perhaps too many applicants are involved already to allow for that. We'll have to see. My DH was interviewed 3 times before getting his offer.

Thedogismybaby it's purely subject dependent, not about the ratio of applications per place.

I've just checked this year's timetable. Definitely not to do with the number of applications per place and all to do with subject. Some of the least applied to courses have N/A next to them and some of the most applied to subjects have dates in the third column.

Has anyone found a similar interview schedule for C? Or is this because O applications are run through the central academic department first - whilst C are coordinated directly through the colleges.

There is no similar Cambridge schedule because admissions are not centralised in the same way as Oxford. Dates are far more random.

Yes, it is subject dependent, I don't disagree with that.

TizerorFizz has name changed? Your delightful writing style is inimitable.

I think you're possibly thinking of another poster there?

God knows why given your own use of the word invidious. If that wasn’t an expression of concern I’m not sure what would be

Plus you gave a previous poster pretty short shrift for daring to make a suggestion 🤷‍♀️

It's another poster who often agitates people on these threads.

Theology has N/A next to it too. Econ and management doesn't, but has dates in the third column. Nothing has changed; this is purely about how subjects go about their process. That's not to say that your DD hasn't applied to a heavily applied to subject of course. The statistics are readily available to see which courses are more applied to than others. Which isn't the same as competitiveness but is often mistaken for it.

Not short shrift so much as not using more words than seemed necessary :) Apologies for that. As I said, each to their own. I was simply making the point - as others have done subsequently - that there's a privacy issue here and that those of us whose DC has/ have been through the process while their parent was on MN know just how small a world it is and while others may not think there's much to identify an applicant, there often actually is.

Not guilty!

Does anyone happen to know if any of Bath, Bristol or Exeter allocates accommodation in August ie post results and/or guarantees accommodation for insurance places? Or have a YP who insured one of these and can provide first-hand information on your experience re accommodation? Many thanks.

If you say so

I do say. But it's definitely noticeable - and again, commented on - that while the parents-of-current-Oxbridge-students-threads are universally agreed to be friendly, warm and mutually supportive, the application threads have a tendency to get a bit sour, which is why I rarely contribute to the latter. I assume it's tension or competition or something of that nature. No idea really but that seems a reasonable explanation. Often there's a particular problem after results are out about whether independently schooled applicants who've not got an offer have been unfairly treated. Again, I don't go anywhere near that. The threads themselves are all the evidence needed to support the friendly as opposed to snippy vibe.

Anyhow, I definitely don't mean to sidetrack the thread; that was just an aside.

DC has had an email to say application is on hold. Is that normal?

An email from Oxbridge?

@Justlurkingmostly Bristol - many who firm get the complete opposite of what they hoped for by being given their final choice or something outside of their budget.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/accommodation/apply/guarantee/

Bath - bad but not quite as bad

Exeter - I believe Falmouth is worse than the main campus.

Southampton is the only RG which I think guarantees accommodation to insurance as well as firm offer holders. Each website will outline what they can guarantee.

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@Justlurkingmostly I am not really on this thread, but saw your post about accommodation. So far as Exeter is concerned, the attached screenshot from the 2024 clearing process may be of interest. In short, they did have accommodation available on Results Day for clearing applicants, but it was quickly snapped up.

Edited to add: this was for the main (Streatham, Exeter) site, not Falmouth.