Oxford chances?

430ktk
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:40:55 +0000

You seem to be approaching this as though you are applying to a US university. British universities are entirely different. Extracurricular activities do not matter at all, as the above poster said, only the ones directly relating to your major matter slightly. Debate, NHS, Track, etc. won’t matter one bit. Second, British universities don’t care about standardized tests like the ACT and SAT, just SAT IIs and AP tests, so unfortunately your 35 and 2320 won’t mean anything. Most British high school only allow students to take 4 classes, requiring students to become specialized in high school (for example, if you want to specialize in medicine, your four courses would be physics, chemistry, biology, and math), so students from the US are expected to be at that level of specialization, as British university is only 3 years. Cambridge recommends 5 AP tests directly correlating with your subject (which for you would probably be Chemistry, Biology, Calc AB or BC, Enviro Sci, and Stat or other science/math AP tests) with 5s on each, as well as a 750+ on 3 SAT IIs that directly correlate to your intended field of study, so I’m sure Oxford has similar expectations. That being said, you have no 5s on AP tests directly correlating to your major, but you do have solid SAT II scores. Unfortunately, admission to British universities is entirely different than to US universities, as numbers are virtually all that matter, with a little influence from related ECs. I hate to be the one to say this, I would not get my heart set on Oxford if I were you. Honestly, if you go to HS in the US, you must be planning on applying to a British university from Day 1 in order to get all those expectations fulfilled by the time you apply. Also, Oxford’s deadline to apply is October 15, so start working on your personal statement ASAP if you haven’t already.