A Dose of Realism, Please?

Twoin18
Mon, 01 Jan 2018 15:54:35 +0000

It seems to me that with your lack of hooks and community service you’d have much better chances applying to Oxford compared to Stanford/Yale and similar. It’s impossibly competitive for unhooked middle class ORMs from CA at top US schools, whereas none of this affects the probability of success at Oxford. Your list is very similar to my S18. I assume you are not seeking substantial financial aid, if you are full pay then Oxford is cheaper than Berkeley when adjusting for the course being 3 years rather than 4.

PPE can be pretty math heavy if you want it to be. The key would be to get all 5s in your APs this year. You can apply in parallel with a US SCEA application. But you’d better be prepared to push your school because they won’t know what they are doing with the test, British-style reference, personal statement, etc.

You don’t list all your APs but I assume Calc BC, English Lang and US History are on there? Those would be the most important, Economics is not a pre-requisite.