0000017965 00000 n Candidates received at least one additional interview at this second stage in order to enable tutors to compare candidates fully. Decisions are not completed until the final admissions meeting after all the candidates have left; when additional interviews are set up, this is to make sure that other colleges to whom candidates have been assigned have a chance to consider them in the context of their own admissions process. The acceptances generally indicate the number of offer holders who accepted the offer and fulfilled its conditions. The report The selection criteria for PPE are onthe course website. The assessment of candidates at the pre-interview stage is based on the following six criteria: It is important to note that weakness in one of these areas may be compensated by exceptional strength elsewhere, as well as by extenuating circumstances (medical conditions, recent bereavements, etc.). This year the test was taken on Wednesday 2 November 2022. 221 (92.9%) offered A-level Further Mathematics. 20 applicants applied for deferred entry (33). The contextual data and flagging policy uses a range of socio-economic and school measures to place individual applicants on a spectrum of disadvantage for more effective identification of under-represented and disadvantaged students. Of the 1559 applicants who successfully registered to sit the test, 1514 sat it on the day. Applicants are assessed based on the totality of information about the applicant with no one interview, by itself, decisive. Places offered for 2024: 11 Before the submission deadline. There was an increase in applications this year, which meant that some applicants who might have been shortlisted in previous years were not shortlisted this year. In addition to their History interviews, candidates in the Joint Schools also received an interview in their other chosen subject. Interviewers are well aware of the particularly challenging circumstances applicants this year have faced in light of the pandemic and took this into account when assessing applications. 2.2.2. Acceptance rates to graduate programs in the United Kingdom Successful candidates for admission displayed the qualities listed below. Candidates for Classics from other colleges who received a second interview were seen by a combined panel of tutors for a single interview. Of all 1633 applicants, 1033 (63.3%) were classified as UK applicants (69.1% in 2021), 120 (7.3%) were classified as EU but not UK (7.3% in 2021), and 480 (29.4%) were classified as non-EU (23.6% in 2021). The most common A-Level subjects studied by interviewees were English Literature, History, and Mathematics. Each interview is marked out of 10 based on the academic judgement of the interviewing tutors. Summoning for interview: All candidates summoned for interview were notified by their colleges by Thursday 25 November. In the end, six candidates were offered a college place at Merton for the academic year 2023-24, and one candidate was made an open offer. Four offer holders have been nominated asOpportunity Oxfordcandidates. 20.7% of applicants offered alternative qualifications, the most popular of which was the IB (10.1%), with US qualifications (SAT subject tests/ AP tests), Canadian qualifications, the Singaporean SIPCAL, and Scottish Advanced Highers representing the next most popular options. The standard entry requirements for Biology are set out on the University of Oxford website. A small number of applicants were brought back into contention at the request of a College. 787 applicants were from the UK, 43 from the EU, and 140 from overseas. Male: 126 (61%). Ratio of applications to offers: 2.14. Shortlisting decisions are initially taken by the tutors in each college, but the Music tutors in all colleges which admit for the subject have access to the application materials and are able to call to interview any candidate not called by the first-choice college. 1Applicants in the most disadvantaged group according to contextual measures. It also conducted a preliminary review of the admissions process. Our questions for all candidates aimed to find out what they found interesting and exciting about the subject and how well they could develop their ideas. All applicants are expected to sit the Mathematics Admissions Test prior to shortlisting. Contextual data is taken into account when making our assessment. This brought the shortlist to a total of 428 instead of the usual 425. Each candidate for Classics had two interviews with Merton, each lasting about 30 minutes. The Colleges then sent letters and/or emails to all applicants, informing them of the outcome of the shortlisting exercise. (For further information please consult the relevant Modern Languages section.). As in 2021, we used a contextualised measure of BMAT performance in the first stage of our shortlisting process in the 2022 admissions round. In the 2022-23 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was 2.4:1 for Classics. Each applicant has a first-assigned college, which is either the college to which they applied or, in the case of open applications, a college randomly assigned by the University Admissions Office in such a way as to even out the number of applicants per place across colleges. Among those candidates, the mean number of GCSEs at grades 9/8 was 8.5. For Philosophy, all candidates were presented with a very short exercise designed to test their ability to assess, evaluate and criticise arguments, as well as to think through philosophical problems systematically and rigorously. In neither case was any prior knowledge of the material expected; the interviews were not tests of knowledge, but of candidates powers of observation, analysis and enquiry. 0000019916 00000 n This included 10 Open Offers, where a place is guaranteed if the offer conditions are achieved but the college place will be allocated before the course commences. 1559 (98.4%)successfully registered to sit the Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT) by the registration deadline, which was 30 September 2022. ANNUAL ADMISSIONS STATISTICAL REPORT hbbd```b`` qd- L`T"VfO9 `XIXa69DV$ 2WlB3 `]4$y #&b Today the University of Oxford has published its Annual Admissions Statistical Report detailing the University's undergraduate admissions figures five years. 61.4% of eligible applicants were female (61.8% in 2021). Thank you for applying for a place on BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. In 2021, this decision was taken (following advice from the University Admissions and Outreach team) in the best interests of widening participation given the absence of a metric which would allow us to compare GCSE performance between schools fairly. This year, shortlisted applicants who were invited to interview, on average, had eight GCSEs at grades 8/9/A*. An additional 21 applicants unable to take the PAT for good cause (the vast majority from Hong Kong) were interviewed and given a back-up PAT test at the same time of the interviews. This year 77 applicants were reallocated to a different first choice college at the time of shortlisting. Of these, 357 received an overall grade of 4.5 or better out of 7 (with 4 being worth careful consideration and 5 being worth a place if one is available) and 334 received an overall grade above 5, so being made an offer of a place is a very considerable achievement. Once college blinding is removed, Colleges also have the opportunity to add candidates who were not selected by the FSC to their shortlists. These systems worked well. This aims to ensure that, for each college, the ratio of interviewed first-choice applicants to places is as close as possible to 2.5 to 1. //-->Submissions | University of Oxford These include 9 open offers, in which a college is not specified at the time of the offer. 2.2.4. An applicants performance is judged according to the admissions criteria and graded on a scale of 1-9 against agreed descriptors. 0000006698 00000 n Interviews might also involve questions that emerge from a candidates personal statement or an extensive discussion of wider reading beyond what a candidate is studying at school. The score and any comments are added to the shared web-based database. Contextual datawere used to assess whether an applicants BMAT score likely reflected an under- or over-performance within the context of the candidates socio-economic and school environment. They can be accessed viaCambridge Assessments Results Online system. Six offers were made to applicants under the recently launchedOpportunity Oxfordscheme. This passage then formed the basis for a discussion in the main part of the interview: we were assessing what candidates found interesting about the passage, how critically they were able to read it, and to what extent we could develop ideas about the text which might be of historical interest. 6 applicantswere offered places through Opportunity Oxford. We do not ascribe equal weighting to all sections of BMAT. The most common reason for non-selection is simply that it is an exceptionally competitive process. Around 28% of offers (24%) made in this cycle were either open offers or made by a college other than the first college considering the applicant. All candidates for Maths, Maths & Statistics, Maths & Philosophy who took the MAT, and who have not withdrawn, will have their MAT score emailed to them automatically by the Admissions Coordinator at the end of the admissions process. For Ancient History, all candidates were given a short passage (in English) from an Ancient Historical source to read for 15 minutes in advance of the interview. In cases where a college is particularly over-subscribed (more than four shortlisted applicants per place), a college must reallocate a fraction of their candidates. Three candidates who had applied to a different college were offered a place at Merton. A small number of applicants for joint honours degreeswere offered places for single honours courses. However, this may also reflect a return to more normal school conditions compared to those during the pandemic. We were very impressed by the overall calibre of our applicants this year. 37.7% of offers were made by colleges other than the college of preference (or allocation). Interviews were conducted remotely via Teams on 5 and 6 December for 1st-choice colleges, and on 9 and 13 December by the faculty interview panels for the second round of interviews. All data is shared on the Faculty Admissions Database (MLAD) and Admissions Tutors from other colleges can arrange further interviews, with priority given to colleges on the computer-generated string of lower choices. All recommendations from College tutors to modify the shortlist were submitted, with reasoning, to the Chemistry Admissions Coordinators for scrutiny. 64 did not meet our requirements for entry (most often because they were too young, did not submit explanation through our extenuating circumstances process as to why they were applying on the basis of a resit, were only sitting one or two A-level exams after receiving teacher-assessed grades this summer rather than three, or did not possess suitable academic credentials). Merton interviews were conducted byDr Brianne DolceandMr Dylan Price.
