Stats for kids attending Oxford UK from the US

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for posting this. Can you be competitive with the minimum requirements? Our school limits APs so our DC will fulfill the minimum AP requirement. SAT will be determined soon.

I am the OP. Yes, if your kid's SAT score is high and they do very well in any Oxford subject tests that may be required. My own DD missed the cut off grade in the subject test by 10 pts. and was told she wouldn't then proceed to interview as a result. Everything else was aligned. No interview = no offers.

Thanks. I have a kid who is very lopsided - very strong in the humanities, so I was thinking applying to a specialized course could fit his interests. He's taking the SAT soon and hoping for 1500+. They say they no longer require a subject test for his course. So it's basically the APs. I'm just not sure if I want to open up anothee application process as we'll need to let our school know and it looks like very few kids have applied in the past 10 years. And the Oxford essay seems very different from the common app one, so he'll have to write another essay.

I also don't want to regret not trying as the US process seems so random. He also won a prestigious UK based award (maybe it won't weigh much in the process...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for posting this. Can you be competitive with the minimum requirements? Our school limits APs so our DC will fulfill the minimum AP requirement. SAT will be determined soon.

I am the OP. Yes, if your kid's SAT score is high and they do very well in any Oxford subject tests that may be required. My own DD missed the cut off grade in the subject test by 10 pts. and was told she wouldn't then proceed to interview as a result. Everything else was aligned. No interview = no offers.

Bummer for your kid. The subject tests are hard. 10 points is actually a lot on most of them, though, so it wasn't a near miss. Better to find out sooner and move on, I'd say. Getting cut at the interview stage feels more personal / hurts more.

[Anonymous]

My friend's DD was rejected from Oxford and she had a 1590 (presidential scholar), all 5s on 9 APs when she applied and lots of great leadership and awards. She went to UChicago instead, where she got in RD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for posting this. Can you be competitive with the minimum requirements? Our school limits APs so our DC will fulfill the minimum AP requirement. SAT will be determined soon.

I am the OP. Yes, if your kid's SAT score is high and they do very well in any Oxford subject tests that may be required. My own DD missed the cut off grade in the subject test by 10 pts. and was told she wouldn't then proceed to interview as a result. Everything else was aligned. No interview = no offers.

Thanks. I have a kid who is very lopsided - very strong in the humanities, so I was thinking applying to a specialized course could fit his interests. He's taking the SAT soon and hoping for 1500+. They say they no longer require a subject test for his course. So it's basically the APs. I'm just not sure if I want to open up anothee application process as we'll need to let our school know and it looks like very few kids have applied in the past 10 years. And the Oxford essay seems very different from the common app one, so he'll have to write another essay.

I also don't want to regret not trying as the US process seems so random. He also won a prestigious UK based award (maybe it won't weigh much in the process...)

So there's a Personal Statement on UCAS but there's no "Oxford essay" that I'm aware of. And it costs about 30 dollars to apply to 5 UK universities so its not like a financial burden. Good luck, whatever happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for posting this. Can you be competitive with the minimum requirements? Our school limits APs so our DC will fulfill the minimum AP requirement. SAT will be determined soon.

I am the OP. Yes, if your kid's SAT score is high and they do very well in any Oxford subject tests that may be required. My own DD missed the cut off grade in the subject test by 10 pts. and was told she wouldn't then proceed to interview as a result. Everything else was aligned. No interview = no offers.

Thanks. I have a kid who is very lopsided - very strong in the humanities, so I was thinking applying to a specialized course could fit his interests. He's taking the SAT soon and hoping for 1500+. They say they no longer require a subject test for his course. So it's basically the APs. I'm just not sure if I want to open up anothee application process as we'll need to let our school know and it looks like very few kids have applied in the past 10 years. And the Oxford essay seems very different from the common app one, so he'll have to write another essay.

I also don't want to regret not trying as the US process seems so random. He also won a prestigious UK based award (maybe it won't weigh much in the process...)

So there's a Personal Statement on UCAS but there's no "Oxford essay" that I'm aware of. And it costs about 30 dollars to apply to 5 UK universities so its not like a financial burden. Good luck, whatever happens.

Yes, that's what I meant... I was referring to the UCAS personal statement as the "oxford essay."

Thanks for the good luck!

[Anonymous]

1600 SAT, 5 APs at 5, basically aces the MAT

[Anonymous]

“Aced”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid can always go to St Andrews. They take any full pay kid from the USA with a pulse.

Not true, but nothing wrong with having a kid at Stoxbridge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid can always go to St Andrews. They take any full pay kid from the USA with a pulse.

Not true, but nothing wrong with having a kid at Stoxbridge.

Stoxbridge is not a thing to anyone except you

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain the 2 years rule?

Does an exam from sophomore year count?

If my kid has 5 or more 5’s in junior/senior year, but some of the obvious ones for his major were taken in freshman or sophomore year or earlier, will that be held against them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I know what their new entry minimums are, and how they want AP's taken over 2 yrs and SAT scores to be higher from the start, not as a result of multiple sittings etc. I know about the subject entrance exams and I know about the interviews.

What I really would like to know, very specifically if any of your kids are attending Oxford this year (or recently)is

What was their actual SAT score. How many AP's did they get as 5's

That is all. Thank you.

1580 SAT. 11 APs, all 5s.

Thank you. This is exactly the range that I have been hearing.

Why would you trust anonymous posters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kid can always go to St Andrews. They take any full pay kid from the USA with a pulse.

Not true, but nothing wrong with having a kid at Stoxbridge.

Stoxbridge is not a thing to anyone except you

And the Guardian, gostudyin.com and you can even get a mug - https://urbandictionary.store/products/mug/stoxbridge-17636606

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain the 2 years rule?

Does an exam from sophomore year count?

If my kid has 5 or more 5’s in junior/senior year, but some of the obvious ones for his major were taken in freshman or sophomore year or earlier, will that be held against them?

Yes it counts against him. Read the OXford website

[Anonymous]

Crikey!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain the 2 years rule?

Does an exam from sophomore year count?

If my kid has 5 or more 5’s in junior/senior year, but some of the obvious ones for his major were taken in freshman or sophomore year or earlier, will that be held against them?

Yes it counts against him. Read the OXford website

My kid's offer to Oxford was contingent on "five APs with a score of 5"; it did not specify which subjects those APs had to be in. So as long as a kid has the numbers in junior and senior year, I don't think that having taken the subject ones in freshman or sophomore year would be a problem. Maybe there's a difference in STEM, but I doubt it.