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Gaining admission to Oxford University
Alice Parrott talks Oxford admissions with Wigsbury
In this 32 minute video, Alice Parrott discusses Oxford University entrance with our resident expert, Jeremy Handcock. Alice worked for many years in the admissions department at Oxford University and shares her unique insights with us in this in-depth video. Sit, back, relax and learn!
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The process that Oxford goes through to review applications
Okay, so this is something that is it's I can't probably go too into detail about this, because it does vary a lot, department by department at Oxford, it's not, there's not one way that all departments review their, their application. So I'll give a bit more of a...
What are top reasons why a student chooses a particular college?
Really, really. I mean, many people apply for college because, you know, they know someone who went to that college, for example. This is a great college, it was my college. For no reason at all people kind of seem to have affinities to their college and if you're...
What is collegiate system?
Yes, absolutely. So Oxford is a university. It's a very big university. How Whether the university is made up of about 30 different colleges, and each student is part of the university, so every student is a part of the University of Oxford, and everybody will come...
The formula for a good personal statement
Yeah. But I think the biggest piece of advice that that kind of from, from my experience, and if that make sure it's a personal statement, there's no formula to a good personal statement, what the tutors want to see is that it's they want to see it's true to you....
Writing a personal statement for multiple universities
Yeah, no, I would say don't don't just focus on the Oxford course. Because it could be that actually Oxford look at your personal statement a little bit less than other universities, and Oxford has these other parts of the admissions process, which has an impact on...
How important is the choice of subjects when applying to Oxford?
So so it is it's very important and like you said, admission rates for subjects do vary greatly. And so for example, you know, you have some subjects like at Oxford, something like Economics and Management, theology and religion might have something like I don't...
What makes a really strong Oxford application?
Firstly, you need to meet the entry requirements. So making sure that you do work hard, you have the grades that are required for the course that you are applying for, if you if you don't, if you're not predicted, or you don't have the entry requirements needed,...
The process that Oxford goes through to review applications
Okay, so this is something that is it's I can't probably go too into detail about this, because it does vary a lot, department by department at Oxford, it's not, there's not one way that all departments review their, their application. So I'll give a bit more of a...
What are top reasons why a student chooses a particular college?
Really, really. I mean, many people apply for college because, you know, they know someone who went to that college, for example. This is a great college, it was my college. For no reason at all people kind of seem to have affinities to their college and if you're...
What is collegiate system?
Yes, absolutely. So Oxford is a university. It's a very big university. How Whether the university is made up of about 30 different colleges, and each student is part of the university, so every student is a part of the University of Oxford, and everybody will come...
The formula for a good personal statement
Yeah. But I think the biggest piece of advice that that kind of from, from my experience, and if that make sure it's a personal statement, there's no formula to a good personal statement, what the tutors want to see is that it's they want to see it's true to you....
Writing a personal statement for multiple universities
Yeah, no, I would say don't don't just focus on the Oxford course. Because it could be that actually Oxford look at your personal statement a little bit less than other universities, and Oxford has these other parts of the admissions process, which has an impact on...
How important is the choice of subjects when applying to Oxford?
So so it is it's very important and like you said, admission rates for subjects do vary greatly. And so for example, you know, you have some subjects like at Oxford, something like Economics and Management, theology and religion might have something like I don't...
What makes a really strong Oxford application?
Firstly, you need to meet the entry requirements. So making sure that you do work hard, you have the grades that are required for the course that you are applying for, if you if you don't, if you're not predicted, or you don't have the entry requirements needed,...