He's behind you! Rob's not the messiah - he's a very naughty boy! Watch The Archers pantomime here.

[PseudoBadger]

Oh no he isn't! Oh yes he is!

Yeah yeah ppeat. That's your story I love come dine with me

Bit coins = not mine.

Ah, I did wonder about the bitcoins but didn't like to ask!
Whatever happened to TEAs. That was their name, wasn't it? The Ambridge local currency.

Jessie, it appears that it's not necessarily the case that you will only be considered by one college. The information from Oxford says:

"If you get an open offer, your place at Oxford is guaranteed (as long as you meet any conditions attached to the offer). However, the college you will go to has not yet been specified, and will not be decided until after your final examination results have been published.

If you received an open offer and have met the conditions of that offer, please remember that you may still be placed at a different college from the one which underwrote your offer. You may not know which college this is until after the A-level results are confirmed in August."

I assume the college you were interviewed by gets first pick and any surpluses get assigned to other colleges with vacant places. So it looks as if the SWs have got it right.

BOOP ! I like Come Dine when the participants are not effing idiots!

I feel the need to share this. A SW tweets ...

JMcJ Had I not spent far too much time browsing the current Oxford interview threads I would also be doing this face > But it appears that more than one interview at more than one college is the thing nowadays. (Unless it was always so there as opposed to elsewhere?)

They could at least lend Bartleby a yurt!

BOOP - my sympathy in whatever is troubling you.

Just one question: you wrote "its bitcoins to share if you see what you I mean" - er, I don't see what you mean - who or what is bitcoins in this context? (I've no wish to make things more painful, so I'll say no more if you choose to ignore this question).

ah, cross post. Although you won't see this if you've just smashed your phone!

R4 - you're clearly more tactful than me.

Can a semi-lurker give a BOOP? I quite liked Brian and David chatting the other day about farming and marriage etc, which started when Brian used to confide in David back in the Siobhan days I think. So it didn't have great origins but I like their personal chats from time to time.

That was quite funny Flora - David was being astonishingly frank for a man who used to squirm with embarrassed horror when Brian repeatedly tried to confide in him ...

Of course the irony is that if Adam and Charlie had actually got together instead of all this hole and corner stuff then Charlie would have had the courage to deal with Knob from the outset and so wouldn't have had to leave. (Or am I remembering wrong - does Charlie know that Knob knows? I thought that was why he was pussyfooting around him). I agree with whoever said we've heard so little of Ian it seems he is on the point of being written out anyway. OTOH if Charlie doesn't go to Scotland where is going to get a job around Ambridge? Can't quite believe they've spent so long developing Charlie as a character only to write him out (rather than merely silence him).

Interesting dipan and Gruach. My ex went to Keble and I was at the other place so we did compare admissions experiences long ago; was definitely college- specific at both Oxford and Cambridge when we went. But I guess times have moved an and am glad the SWs have not mucked it up. However I do hope that they actually name the college when she eventually goes there (am sure she'll get in).

Having read a bit more on the Ocford website I see that only about 18% of students make an open application from the get-go; however those who specify a college may be called for interview by a different one.

I think they're leading up to Phoebe getting a place, but I don't want to be too confident - what do we reckon?

I love the way they allude to political debates people have had, without ever attributing anyone with an actual opinion! 'Oh yes, Rob and I were talking about women and whether they were as good as men or not, and the topic of whether they ought to be kept under lock and key came up - certainly some strongly-held opinions on both sides there!'

(except nobody ever has a conflicting opinion to Rob that we get to hear about).

Even when I was in Oxford it was quite common for people to have interviews at more than one college - especially them using little maps to find St Hugh's. A friend's DD didn't get an offer from her first choice college, but was seen genuinely as someone Oxford wanted and got her offer from another college (a very good one).
There has (for a long time, 30+ years at least) been mechanisms where good candidates could be passed on to other colleges; they don't want to let great candidates get away - especially if state school ones. And I've known applicants from (30 years +) who got offered their second choice or another College but decided they'd rather go elsewhere (eg. Durham).

You write "30 + years" with so much more swagger than I can ever manage mummytime

But definitely at the other place all those years ago you were scheduled one interview and only had the opportunity to be considered elsewhere if you were rejected by the first college - via the pool. The current Ox-interview threads are an eye-opener to me. It does sound quite fun, though exhausting.

Gruach - it's amazing to think it was that long ago - and of course the boy I'm thinking of was in a much higher year in my school than me (umm 1?).

When I was there (as a graduate) I only remember the little candidates going to St Hugh's - and maybe just because it's quite a bit further up the road. (Although nothing compared to Girton to the rest of Cambridge).

But then most people wouldn't know that other Uni's sometimes sent you for an interview at another department - but this happened to several people I know.

I'm wondering if we will ever know which college Phoebe goes to, she was definitely interviewed somewhere Historic.

My poor friend applied to one college at Oxford and was interviewed by 2 others as well - ended up doing 7 or 8 interviews in a couple of days. She was knackered! She did get accepted though, by a college other than the one she'd originally applied to. It was called "pooling" the candidates (or "the pool") where colleges that had had loads of good applications for Physics or whatever could share their surplus people with other colleges.

Glad she's so excited about it and not (currently) being brought down by Loverboy's "never leave the village, Robert Poste's child" gloom.

BOOP for Brian moaning on about CAP subsidy's and David pointing out that they've made him (Brian) rich over the years, the hypocritical old sod!

I loved the Clarrie and Susan scene - that really is the sort of thing friends would do, I felt quite emotional :(

It had "a quad" mummytime, could be almost anywhere!

Robert Poste's child ...

You're brave Pal

Well St Hugh's doesn't have a Quad, and I'm not sure Catz does. So I'd expect a town centre old one, but that is most of them (I was hoping they'd mention a Christmas tree in case it was my old one...sad mine aren't applying so I hope Phoebe does).

Perhaps Phoebe's boyfriend will pop up out of the woodwork when/if she gets an offer to try to persuade her that Felpersham University is the holy grail. Let's hope she tells him to get lost.

It's four years since my son was interviewed at Oxford (not for PPE) but so far the SWs have got the whole application procedure spot on. Not difficult to do, to be fair, as Oxford University is astonishingly open on its website about the whole thing and the timetable is all there months in advance.

If only every aspect of Ambridge life was as well researched!