<p>Oxford’s website does indeed have a separate section for International Students, you will find it if you look more carefully.</p>
<p>It might be a new experience for you to be a “foreigner”. As a foreigner you will find people giving information that has nothing to do with you, and not realizing it is useless until you speak up and say “does this apply to foreign students?” As a foreigner, (and I have lived as a foreigner in the UK) you are the one who is “weird”, the different way that the Brits do things they consider “normal”.</p>
<p>Here we go . . .</p>
<p>Most students in British universities are British. The British educational system is completely different from the American one. British students applying to colleges and unis take a group of tests called “A-levels”, and the results on these “A-levels” determine which college they go to, or if they go to college at all.</p>
<p>So when UK colleges and unis get foreign applicants, they say “Okay, what is this country’s nearest equivalent to A-levels?” For the United States, the answer is either AP tests or SAT Subject tests.</p>
<p>To apply to Oxford, you will need 3 AP tests with scores of “5”, or 3 SAT Subject tests with scores of “700” or more. To actually get in, you very likely will need more than that. Applicants won’t have finished their exams (whether A-levels or a foreign equivalent) by the time they start applying, so there is process where they have someone at their school give predicted grades. Any admission decision will usually be conditional on actually getting those predicted test results!!!</p>
<p>Cupcake is right. You take a “course” at Oxford, which is very roughly what we in the USA call a “major”. And you spend the whole time only studying that particular subject (so in this way it is unlike a “major”). So you can’t just combine two courses, like Law and Philosophy. There are some courses which they have created which combine subjects, one of the best known of these is PPE–Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.</p>
<p>There is no “GPA” in the UK educational system, instead they have these nationwide tests like A-levels. So Oxford will not be interested in your GPA, instead they want to see your AP tests or SAT subject tests.</p>