Asking Students "How To Get Into OXFORD UNIVERSITY?" | [Street Interview]

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  • Asking Oxford students, 'How to get into Oxford University?'
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    • Interviews
    • GMAT, GPA
    • Personal statement
    • Letter of recommendation
    • Graduate and undergraduate
    • Bachelor, Master & PhD students
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Komentáře • 72

  • @pietrobordi3359
    @pietrobordi3359 Před 2 lety +327

    Honoured to have made it into the thumbnail man! XD Love the content, keep it up

    • @DelescenMedia
      @DelescenMedia  Před 2 lety +19

      Haha thanks man! Great contribution too :)

    • @CalmAtHighTide
      @CalmAtHighTide Před rokem +1

      Hi Pietro. I hope you're doing well. I'm currently doing a bachelor's in English language and literature and I'm looking to pursue a postgraduate degree in philosophy and literature too! I wasn't actually aware that Oxford offered a philosophy and literature interdisciplinary program. I was just hoping to ask what exactly it is that you're majoring in because I'd like to look more into it. Your response would be really appreciated. Thank you!!

    • @krishhshukla4612
      @krishhshukla4612 Před rokem

      @@CalmAtHighTide nice essay lol

    • @pietrobordi3359
      @pietrobordi3359 Před rokem +2

      @@CalmAtHighTide Hey there how are you doing! The course I took last year is called European Studies (now also Medieval and Modern Languages) -- this encapsulates anything from philosophy, literature, philology, linguistics and even history of art. It's an incredibly multidisciplinary course -- especially the Master of Studies programme, which I took last year before starting my PhD at Oxford. For example, during the year I took courses on 20th century German philosophy in the German department, Italian late medieval lyric, English 19th & 20th century literature (known as a C-option course in the English department at Oxford!) and did my dissertation on Italian Renaissance art history. As you can see the course offers huge breadth and profits from all departments across Oxford, which is pretty rare here...
      Good luck with everything and sorry for the late reply!

    • @hirakukasumi5847
      @hirakukasumi5847 Před rokem

      @@pietrobordi3359 Hello Sir Pietro Bordi, I am going to the UK this year and am going to my A levels. I want to do bachelor's in Economics and Management and need to get A*AA. How can i achieve that the most effectively and efficiently? . What would you have done if you had to do like A levels again to get the best grades? My plan is to just make summaries of the information i get and try to get A* in at least 2 subjects but i dont really know if what i am going to do is efficient and effectieve. My subject i want to chose are Maths, Economics and business.

  • @rotneder2814
    @rotneder2814 Před rokem +98

    Great video. But you should have asked where they've graduated from high schools / pre-university institution.

    • @DelescenMedia
      @DelescenMedia  Před rokem +11

      Great feedback, thanks!

    • @kashu7691
      @kashu7691 Před rokem +11

      most of them won't be famous schools, so no one would have likely heard of them

    • @gossipqueen1013
      @gossipqueen1013 Před 11 měsíci +5

      I maybe wrong but why do so many people think you gotta have this 10/10 background and go to amazing schools that's not the case. Yes some rich kids do end up in the top universities not just cause they're rich but because their parents knew what to do. Alot of students at Oxford/Cambridge are not as rich as you think. Alot of people think you gotta be this 10/10 student to get in you don't.

    • @franciscorafaeldominguezru5156
      @franciscorafaeldominguezru5156 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@gossipqueen1013most of them are rich or at least well-off

    • @rorkeslayer3925
      @rorkeslayer3925 Před 4 měsíci

      @@gossipqueen1013 In a country where over 94.1% of students are from state schools, approximately 31.4% of Oxford students are from private schools.

  • @DelescenMedia
    @DelescenMedia  Před 2 lety +26

    Questions about or recommendations on Oxford's application process? Comment down below and let's help each other! :)

    • @trungtranhoang6881
      @trungtranhoang6881 Před rokem

      Sir, can I ask for your video to translate it into Vietnamese and post on our school books club fb page? We are committed to attribution and attach your link to our article and if you agree, I hope you can leave us a contact method like fb or instagram so we can exchange more information.

    • @benedictipaa5934
      @benedictipaa5934 Před 11 měsíci +1

      I am a Kenyan and Christian, above the list, I'll mention, put God first, pray always without ceasing, and have the following:
      1. Ensure your academic transcripts are incredible,
      2. Fine-tune your Personal statement, to be extraordinary; highlighting your passion, carrier work/ volunteer work, and leadership roles. They should be on the same trajectory as the course you wanna pursue.
      3. Look for the best recommenders / Referees.
      4. Write an adorable CV, Oxford has its preferred format, (If possible inscribe your Research Project / Proposal).
      5. Meet the language requirements.
      6. Interview is a vital process in Oxford application, don't panic.

  • @tay7300
    @tay7300 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Great vids. Thankss! worth to try :)

  • @wiichevv.official
    @wiichevv.official Před 11 měsíci +10

    Nice video, hope you will keep on doing it when I'm gonna get in Oxford university or maybe Cambridge, we will see next year!

    • @Orioleexzz
      @Orioleexzz Před 23 dny +1

      Hi did you get in?

    • @wiichevv.official
      @wiichevv.official Před 19 dny

      @@Orioleexzz I am going to send my application in two months, sorry if you misunderstood, but I was talking about school years. So my school year ends in two months. And I can't send it before, because I have to wait for my exams results to add in my folder. If you wanna get in you can check out their web site and send an email, that is given on their web site!

  • @oliverqueen5883
    @oliverqueen5883 Před rokem +24

    2:07 It’s Magdalen College not Merton College 😂

  • @feastbig
    @feastbig Před rokem

    great question!

  • @lunaeclipse5768
    @lunaeclipse5768 Před rokem +2

    my crush is proll going to oxford
    but she also could go to any UC series in California

  • @citywise8773
    @citywise8773 Před 2 lety +61

    The problem with this video is that it’s ambiguous and therefore misleading as it appears to be a mixture of undergrads and postgrads in this vox pop. So all the stuff about having a very strong letter of recommendation from an expert in their field is 100% relevant to postgraduate applications but NOT the case for undergraduate applications: in this case your reference will be from your teacher and not “an expert in their field”…just your ordinary, regular teacher.
    So personally I’d ignore everything on this video if you’re applying for an undergrad degree to Oxford as it’s pretty misleading. If they’d identified the difference between each respondent (ie it said “undergraduate in Modern Languages” or “postgraduate studying Maths”) then that might have made it more useful…but they didn’t and it isn’t

    • @tomfiddick3425
      @tomfiddick3425 Před rokem +9

      It’s not if you’ve got any ability to read into context about whether people are under or postgrad

    • @citywise8773
      @citywise8773 Před rokem +6

      @@tomfiddick3425 I “have the ability to read into the context”…not least because I am a postgraduate student myself, but given this channel and this video is, I assume, claiming to offer advice to prospective students (many of whom won’t be so well acquainted with the British university system - particularly if they are from overseas), then having something that’s pretty unclear and frankly misleading is hardly helpful. There’s some good info out there on You Tube about making a competing application to Oxford and Cambridge…but this isn’t one of them!

  • @copiryte9535
    @copiryte9535 Před 2 lety +5

    I want to see this guys youtube channel

  • @zebarizvibotswanaindia
    @zebarizvibotswanaindia Před 2 lety +2

    Nice video

  • @adamleddy9894
    @adamleddy9894 Před rokem +5

    Easy answer… Apply

  • @jonkliker2438
    @jonkliker2438 Před rokem +35

    2:07 She said Magdalen College, not Merton College

    • @DelescenMedia
      @DelescenMedia  Před rokem +1

      Oops!

    • @scholarlyanalyst7700
      @scholarlyanalyst7700 Před rokem

      @@DelescenMedia What sounds harder to your "ears"? 1. Masters Degree in Mathematics or 2. Masters Degree in Statistics?

    • @Anonymoose66G
      @Anonymoose66G Před 11 měsíci

      @@scholarlyanalyst7700 To me I personally prefer statistics because it's the framework of literally everything in the universe, our brain constantly analyzes, even now my brains using statistics to write this in this word order but people don't think of statistics like that unfortunately. I'd say it depends what career path you want, if you want to go into business then statistics is better but if you want to go into R&D or post grad I'd say mathematics is better and then if you want you can minor in stats or do a postgrad in it, up to you ofc.

    • @Anonymoose66G
      @Anonymoose66G Před 11 měsíci

      @@scholarlyanalyst7700 You also have to remember you can take statistics electives in your mathematics major, you probably also cover it lightly anyways. Also mathematics as a whole is the framework of our reality but the statistical component to me is more important, especially at the quantum level. I might end up doing statistics in university but I'm years of from making that decision so I'll focus on my grades 😂.

    • @scholarlyanalyst7700
      @scholarlyanalyst7700 Před 11 měsíci

      @@Anonymoose66G OH. Are you kidding? Are you still in high school? Not that there's anything wrong with that (if true?). It's just that while I was reading your reply I was assuming you were a university student?
      In any event, I wholeheartedly agree with you that statistics more accurately mirrors the real world - certainly from a decision perspective - than pure mathematics!
      The real world is often somewhat predictable BUT with many uncertainties. The real-world certainly is not as clear-cut and precise as pure math would have us believe.
      I believe statistics most accurately models this messy uncertainty - which is why it's also required for most of the physical sciences!
      Statistics "looks" like the real world. Somewhat predictable - but allowing for a modest degree of uncertainly in the form of probabilities, confidence intervals, and so forth!

  • @lovenature1919
    @lovenature1919 Před rokem +9

    U should have asked them about their future career prospects

    • @DelescenMedia
      @DelescenMedia  Před rokem +7

      Do you mean questions like: "What is your dream job?" or "What do you want to become?"

    • @eshaansarkar2017
      @eshaansarkar2017 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@DelescenMediaI think what do you want to become is the right question to ask...

    • @DelescenMedia
      @DelescenMedia  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Love this question@@eshaansarkar2017

  • @aaaggg7311
    @aaaggg7311 Před rokem

    Magdalen not Merton

  • @LodrikBadric
    @LodrikBadric Před 11 měsíci +1

    Can you be too old for Oxford? All the people in this video seem so young. ^^ I mean is it a criteria for entrance?

    • @aswathipb6489
      @aswathipb6489 Před 10 dny +1

      I don't think so you can apply as a mature student

  • @ACK333
    @ACK333 Před 27 dny

    But psychologists in Oxford u have no proof to the public for any Cantonese cases in America land issues. Why I paid such amount of efforts before the future arrivals?

  • @adrianoundead
    @adrianoundead Před rokem

    La mayoría son carreras que no sirven para nada

  • @astridkjellberg
    @astridkjellberg Před 11 měsíci +4

    i can swear that the guy on 0:37 is turkish :S

    • @Anonymoose66G
      @Anonymoose66G Před 11 měsíci +2

      I don't know I hear a bit of a french accent in him, if I had to bet on it I'd say he's Tunisian.

    • @user-vx5lb2yn7q
      @user-vx5lb2yn7q Před 7 měsíci +1

      he’s fully Italian, he said it himself in the comments

    • @mehrimatasnim141
      @mehrimatasnim141 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@user-vx5lb2yn7qr u sure about this

  • @JamesJoyce12
    @JamesJoyce12 Před rokem +1

    be a POC or URM

  • @McFlashh
    @McFlashh Před 8 měsíci +10

    Many people here studying useless degrees just to say they went Oxford. The guy who studied theoretical physics is the smartest one in this video

  • @aaaab384
    @aaaab384 Před měsícem

    I guess a good advice, if you're a female, would be to have a very marked vocal fry.

  • @vornamenachname594
    @vornamenachname594 Před rokem +4

    Be black, female and have decent enough grades.

    • @nookiecookie1440
      @nookiecookie1440 Před rokem +19

      no one in the video is black though. Not all black women are taken as diversity hires

    • @gloss1138
      @gloss1138 Před 9 měsíci

      literally nobody here was black, and the male to female students ratios at oxford are always split at near 50%. decent enough grades don't get you here, excellent grades do lmao people really say anything on the internet