rejections!!! feedback? waiting list?

[Tyraell]

Originally Posted by agneishd

well weirdly enough they asked me something about "intending to move outside london" which i thought was quite the odd question

i've also heard from others that they ask similar things, trying to search for oxbridge related clues...

The med. student/ interviewer who showed me in asked me "is this your first interview?". Not realising they were an interviewer (silly me), I replied along the lines of "The first of this type. My others went OK though, so this should be interesting..."

But I got an offer. :P Maybe I wasn't obvious enough.

But seriously, I don't see why people think they would be so worried about giving places to Oxbridge accepts. I mean, if you're a good candidate then you're a good candidate. They know not everyone is going to accept - in fact they rely on that fact - and it would be silly to reject good applicants on the 'off chance' that they might turn them down.

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by InFairVerena

Yeh, I don't disagree! I didn't mean to sound like I thought that.
Should have subtly dropped in that Imperial would 100% be my first choice...!

yeh i kinda said that in reply, and to do that you have to talk about imperial itself
like i said research etc. looked up Kennedy Institute of RA (my topic on PS), local hospitals, course structure, etc.

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by Tyraell

The med. student/ interviewer who showed me in asked me "is this your first interview?". Not realising they were an interviewer (silly me), I replied along the lines of "The first of this type. My others went OK though, so this should be interesting..."

But I got an offer. :P Maybe I wasn't obvious enough.

But seriously, I don't see why people think they would be so worried about giving places to Oxbridge accepts. I mean, if you're a good candidate then you're a good candidate. They know not everyone is going to accept - in fact they rely on that fact - and it would be silly to reject good applicants on the 'off chance' that they might turn them down.

pah! oxford medic clearly

[grindlo]

gotta agree with Tyraell on this one...

i dont reckon theyd wanna "sniff out" the oxbridge-ers really cus well they offer waaaaay more than they have places, dont they? so like.. theyre expecting like 200 people to either pick somewhere else or not get their grades. x

[InFairVerena]

But at the same time it would be unfortunate if all of their offers also had Oxbridge offers!

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by grindlo

gotta agree with Tyraell on this one...

i dont reckon theyd wanna "sniff out" the oxbridge-ers really cus well they offer waaaaay more than they have places, dont they? so like.. theyre expecting like 200 people to either pick somewhere else or not get their grades. x

well i spose so, but remember they get fined if they don't have all their places filled, so don't want too many obvious oxbridgers!

[grindlo]

welllll 3 rejections later and im deffo on this waiting list.
should i write to them now?
or jsut wait till august like they said on the letter :S x

[a.29]

i wrote to them as they said they 'may reconsideri if im not holding any other offers

[agneishd]

good luck!

[erndog laShang]

i m still waiting for my interview, getting slightly nervous