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Welcome to Oxbridge Applications

Oxbridge Applications:

    Hertford Bridge, Oxford

  • An independent organisation formed by Oxbridge graduates to demystify the Oxbridge selection process and help students fulfil their potential

  • Supports applicants at every hurdle of the application process, including college selection, advice on application forms, as well as preparation for admissions tests and interviews- details

  • Offers free online advice for all applicants to Oxford and Cambridge on Oxbridge Advantage- register

  • Provides Private Consultations for more focused, individual advice- details

  • Runs nationwide Interview Preparation Events to educate, inspire and equip students- details

  • Operates a network of 400 consultants, graduate tutors and former admissions tutors and has helped over 35,000 students with their Oxbridge applications, and now works with ~15% of all Oxbridge applicants every year

  • Does not believe that candidates can in any way be coached, trained or rehearsed for success, but that they should be aware of what admissions tutors are really looking for

  • Has an Access Scheme to ensure all can benefit of its expertise, regardless of income- details
Interview Preparation Events

Our 2007 Interview Preparation Events are now finished. If you are thinking about appyling to Oxbridge in 2008, have look at the types events we run or call us on 020 7499 2394 to work out the best way we can work with you.

 

What applicants who attended one of our 2007 Interview Preparation Events this year have to say:

 

Applicant for English 

"I get very nervous in interviews and this has really helped me find ways of approaching interviews and practicing interviews, rather than giving me the content. It’s been a fantastic process so that I don’t panic in the interview." 

 

Applicant for Medicine

"Its been really, really useful. Working through unseen problems at interview is quite individual to Oxbridge, and I wasn’t very good but its helped me develop that."

 

Applicant for Oriental Studies

"It has been really refreshing to meet people of the same age, in exactly the same position, with the same fears… being able to talk to them, to have intellectual conversations with everybody here! I was talking to somebody doing human sciences and it was amazing how much the subject overlap can be!"

 

Applicant for English

"The mock interviews were very, very helpful as having some practice for it, just to prepare you for the real thing, has been incredibly useful. I haven’t done an interview for ages so it was fantastic to be able to do this."

 

The Interviews

The facts:

  • Oxbridge interviews remain a subject process, with tutors deciding who makes the grade
  • Interviewers' questions vary from the population of suburban towns to the problems faced by fish (as the release of our latest research in the Daily Telegraph shows)
  • Preparing for the interview poses a tough challenge

 What you can do: interviews.jpg

  • Practice being in an unfamiliar and challenging interview situation
  • Receive constructive feedback from people who know what they're talking about
  • Think about what the admissions tutors really want
  • Talk to people who themselves have excelled at the selection process

 

What we can do:

  • We run Interview Preparation Days around the country to help applicants prepare for their interviews
  • And challenge you academically
  • Give you an idea of what admissions tutors are looking for
  • Provide sessions on communications skills and interview technique
  • Help you not to become an 'interview robot' but to fulfil your potential at this stage of the process
  • Book your place online here

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Interested in working for Oxbridge Applications?

We are currently recruiting tutors for this year's events. If you are interested in exciting and rewarding work opportunities, please click here for further details of our recruitment process.

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  • Real past interview questions

  • Admissions tests

  • Oxbridge forum

  • Frequently asked questions
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