56 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[]/Index[32 43]/Info 31 0 R/Length 114/Prev 157751/Root 33 0 R/Size 75/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream Every year, there are applicants who are excellent physicists who underperform on the PAT and so we do not get a chance to see their excellence at interview. 0000012965 00000 n 0000011448 00000 n We stress that all of these elements in combination form the basis of our difficult decisions, and that underperformance or an excessively good performance at interview is not on its own a decisive factor in them. They were also asked to make some salient observations about the music extracts (though they were not expected to recognise the piece or the composer). The score and any comments are added to the shared web-based database. %PDF-1.5 % Shortlisting decisions were based on the History Aptitude Test (HAT) results, taking into account other information provided and, where candidates had studied for GCSEs, GCSE scores contextualised against those awarded to other candidates at the same school in the same year. Candidates were asked to summarise the prose extract, and then discuss some of the critical issues within the text. They are sent to the college where they will have the best theoretical chance of success, based on where they will be ranked highest within the existing cohort of the college. Prior to shortlisting, a team of Biology tutors reviewed the applications as a gathered field and made interview recommendations to all other Biology tutors involved in admissions. Decisions are not completed until the final admissions meeting after all the candidates have left; when additional interviews are set up, this is to make sure that other colleges to whom candidates have been assigned have a chance to consider them in the context of their own admissions process. endstream endobj startxref They take into account all information from the UCAS form and any relevant contextual information such as educational background, socio-economic background, or extenuating circumstances. Colleges were allowed to enter into consortia (i.e. There was variation in the remaining A level subject(s) taken by A level applicants some shortlisted applicants held Biology plus two or more of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. The 2020 report highlights: an improvement in our Most applicants sat it in their school or in another registered test centre, with a small number sitting the test via remote invigilation. 0000002599 00000 n Letters and/or emails are then sent to candidates informing them of the outcome of the shortlisting exercise. For the Management interview, candidates were set a brief pre-interview reading from a broadsheet that assessed interest in Management and the ability to identify and discuss issues from a general management perspective. Merton's Schools Liaison and Access Officer will be pleased to provide any advice on supporting applications or you may wish to contact the Oxford college linked to your area underthe University's Regional Outreach Scheme. The number of shortlisted applicants was therefore restricted to slightly less than 3 for each quota place. 62.1% of shortlisted applicants were domiciled in the UK; 5.7% were domiciled in the EU; 32.2% were domiciled outside the EU or UK. Summoning for interview: All candidates summoned for interview were notified by their colleges by Thursday 25 November. Reallocation has been practised by the University for many years, assuring that all strong applicants have the same chance of obtaining places at Oxford, although possibly not at their first-choice college. Short-listing is therefore followed by a reallocation process, in which applicants are transferred from first-choice colleges with a large ratio of applicants per place, to colleges with a smaller ratio of applicants per place. This year 77 applicants were reallocated to a different first choice college at the time of shortlisting. Then came his internship at Miami University Regionals. State school: 103 (50%) For some universities, however, it denotes the number of applicants who accepted the offer, regardless of whether they subsequently met its conditions. To guide admitting tutors, an overall ranking was produced based on the post-interview C-score: Post-Interview C-score = (PAT mark out of 100) + 2 x (Interviews out of 100). In light of further information a college may reverse the default shortlisting decision, making known the reasons for their decision to the Admissions Coordinator. Of these, 1605 applicants were contesting the 191 places available for 2023 admission places, or approximately 8.4 applicants per place, with 28 applicants seeking deferred places. Particular attention is paid to any factors identified in the application that may have affected academic performance. 1 in 7 We will deal with the issue as soon as possible. Final Declarations Meeting procedure: All offers, including Opportunity Oxford offers, were confirmed by college representatives at the Final Declarations Meeting, which reviewed them against the candidates mid-interview ranking. The annual admissions report is a highly valuable tool in guiding the work of the Admissions Committee and our Outreach team. The purpose of reallocation is to give worthwhile candidates the chance of interview. There were970home,207EU and687overseas applicants. Places offered for 2023: 308 2.1.1. Law tutors worked together across Oxford to ensure the strongest candidates in the cohort as a whole were admitted into individual colleges. WebFind out the acceptance rates to Undergraduate, Masters and PhD programs in the United Kingdom. The Departmental policy is that conditional offers should normally be set at A*AA at A-level with the A* in a science or maths, or the equivalent. %%EOF 0000015406 00000 n The assessment of candidates at the pre-interview stage takes account of all information in the application, including: (1) academic performance to date; (2) predicted grades; (3) reference; (4) the LNAT multiple choice test, and (5) the LNAT essay. In the 2022-23 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was 9:1 for Law including LSE. All candidates summoned for interview received two interviews by their first choice college. Ultimately, 200 offers were made for entry in 2023. This meant that candidates from a number of oversubscribed colleges were reallocated to other colleges for interview. It is very hard for applicants to assess their own interview performance and we know from conversations with accepted students that it is extremely common for applicants to think that interviews which have actually gone well even very well have gone badly. Shortlisting was performed by the Chemistry Admissions Coordinators and the College tutors in accordance with thestated admissions criteria, based on all available and relevant data: in particular these data include all aspects of the applicant's UCAS form and any further relevant contextual data specific to the application. The admissions team at Merton considered the above-mentioned six criteria together with the interview performance when making their final decisions. 3 -> The nominations made were scrutinised further along with the 80 applicants just below the cut-off point. Candidates applying for Classics Course II also had a short central interview (15 minutes) at the Classics Faculty with members of the Facultys language teaching team, where questions were asked based partly on their Language Aptitude Tests. Likewise, in the admissions process we are aiming to project applicants forward to their performance on-course, not just comparing the levels attained at age 17 or 18. Colleges are set deselection targets so that across all colleges at least 2.75 applicants per place are shortlisted. Shortlisting decisions are reviewed by the subject coordinator in order to ensure consistency between colleges. Each year, tests are vetted by a committee which involves secondary school teachers so that they reflect current teaching aims and practices. Around half of the candidates between the two thresholds were shortlisted for interview, resulting in around 3 applicants per place. Some more specific indications of what tutors in particular subjects are seeking, and the processes and competition in each area, can be found under each subject header. Applicants who do not take the pre-interview test will not normally be shortlisted for interview. Candidates received at least one additional interview at this second stage in order to enable tutors to compare candidates fully. Selection is competitive and it may well be that a candidate is able to demonstrate these qualities and nonetheless is edged out of contention by a candidate with stronger all-round claims. It is not an indicator of the strength or weakness of an applicant; applicants can be reallocated with very high PAT scores. Proven competence in the language(s) as established by schoolwork written in the language(s), by the language test and (in some cases) by oral competence at interview. In the 2022-23 admissions round Merton received 62 applications for Physics and Physics & Philosophy in total, i.e. More details are shown in the graph above (this only includes marks on the main PAT test). The vast majority of our applicants are very talented, with exemplary academic backgrounds. Each candidate received two interviews at Merton. We are also grateful for the yearly advice we receive from schools and teachers on adapting the PAT to changes in school syllabi, and we also expect to continue to make further changes reflecting such advice in subsequent years. 36 international fee-status applicants were shortlisted. However, it does request written work in advance (two essays, one of which should normally be on Music, plus some harmony and counterpoint and/or composition). 2.2.1. 348 applicants were shortlisted, and 135 were offered places for entry in 2023 or deferred entry in 2024. The admissions criteria are published on the departments website at: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/prospective-undergraduates/how-apply/admissions-criteria. All of these numbers include only applicants taking more than 5 GCSEs. 3 in 10 As in 2021, we used a contextualised measure of BMAT performance in the first stage of our shortlisting process in the 2022 admissions round. The contextual data and flagging policy uses a range of socio-economic and school measures to place individual applicants on a spectrum of disadvantage for more effective identification of under-represented and disadvantaged students. Around 28% of offers (24%) made in this cycle were either open offers or made by a college other than the first college considering the applicant. Their paper, published today [Thurs] in the journal Antiquity, reports the discovery may be evidence of a probable undocumented military campaign across south east Jordan into Saudi Arabia. If there were no objections to the first-choice colleges decision not to shortlist the candidate, any other college could rescue the candidate. All such applicants were over-quota in terms of interview numbers to ensure they did not displace anyone who had sat the original PAT test. The standard entry requirements for Biology are set out on the University of Oxford website. The table below summarises the distribution of other subject choices amongst applicants this year taking A-levels. 24 applicants applied for deferred entry in 2024. 224 (64.4%) had taken five or more GCSEs. The number of applicants called for interview is usually fixed at around 425, in other words about 2.5 applicants per place available. The overall success rate for male applicants was 11.7% (11% in 2021); the overall success rate for female applicants was 8.1% (8.5% in 2021). Reflecting the disruptions to normal educational patterns since March 2020, a further 164 applicants (compared to 202 in 2021 and 83 in 2020) were also shortlisted, who were below the automatic thresholds but whose application forms showed other evidence of excellence or mitigating circumstances. There were818female and1046male applicants. A key goal of the Oxford admissions process is that the probability of admission should not depend on the applicant's choice of college. In the 2022-23 admissions round the estimated competition for places across Oxford was 4.75:1. If you achieve top grades at A-level, or other equivalent academic qualifications which meet our admission requirements, you are welcome to apply for entry next year. More information on how to apply can be found in the Applying to Oxford section of our website but please note the deadline for applications for entry next year is 15 October. Interviews were academic in nature. Oxford University has today published its first Annual Admissions Statistical Report which sets out a detailed picture of our undergraduate admissions over the past Interviews took place on Teams in the second week of December. After shortlisting, 343 applicants were invited to interview and after interview, 128 applicants received an offer for 2023 course entry. This year the test was taken on Wednesday 2 November 2022. Every short-listed candidate has two interviews given by a first-choice college and one given by a randomly allocated second-choice college. Procedure for 2nd interviews: All second interviews were organised centrally by the Faculty of Classics; candidates flagged for second interview were assigned to one of the seven faculty interviewing panels, each of which had a historian and an archaeologist on it, who conducted a single interview with the candidate. Colleges are responsible for scheduling and conducting interviews for English Language and Literature. The 45 applicants who successfully registered for the test but were unable to sit it due to unexpected circumstances beyond their control were considered on the basis of their UCAS form. In all 205 (201 last year) offers were made, including open offers. All decisions are taken carefully and followed strict procedural safeguards to ensure that the best candidates i.e. As a result, many very able applicants were not offered a place. BMAT is the only element of an application that is common to all applicants for Medicine and giving as it does a snapshot of ability and aptitude, it is an important selection tool when assessing a large number of extremely well qualified applicants. 2.1.3. Before 2021, the first stage of our shortlisting process had used a combination of contextualised GCSE performance (for those candidates with GCSE grades) and BMAT score. The top 50% of applicants are automatically shortlisted for interview. We wish all applicants enjoyment and understanding in their future pursuits of physics. 0000001900 00000 n The admissions process as a whole is designed to identify which candidates possess them in the greatest measure: Motivation and commitment along with capacity for sustained study of language and literature. All A-level applicants must take Chemistry. As a result of this process, each college can interview between 2.5 and 3 applicants per available place. The Chemistry Department operates various procedures in a coordinated effort to ensure that the strongest applicants are admitted to the University irrespective of College choice. Successful offer holders averaged a result of 49.5. Tutors are guided by a statistically validated score derived from the MAT and the applicants performance at GCSE relative to other students at their pre-16 school; they exercise discretion within thresholds determined for each degree subject by the subject coordinator. trailer <<397583D06D7C489FAE70217B7DD1F806>]/Prev 704520/XRefStm 1900>> startxref 0 %%EOF 10964 0 obj <>stream The scale is such that a mark of 6 broadly corresponds to acceptable; 7 corresponds to good; and an average interview mark of 8 or higher will almost certainly result in an offer. Guide Score: This is undertaken in full consultation with the tutors in each college, and is done in order to make the Admissions process as fair as possible, giving all candidates a balanced chance of gaining a place in the University as a whole. 29 shortlisted female applicants were offered places, making up 21.5% of the total offers. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); Across the collegiate university, Physics aims to interview around 2.5 applicants per place. Standard offers are stated on the Chemistry course page of the University website for those taking A-levels, the International Baccalaureate or Advanced Highers. Candidates who were less strong did not display in their interviews an ability to analyse businesses and organisations from a managerial perspective, nor a sufficiently keen interest in doing so, or they performed less well in general quantitative analysis and reasoning. Contextual data is taken into account when making our assessment. The proposed list of all applicants not to be shortlisted was available to all Colleges for a period of 4 days before the shortlist was finalised. Our questions for all candidates aimed to find out what they found interesting and exciting about the subject and how well they could develop their ideas. These are designed to cover the anticipated withdrawal rate of applicants who are made an offer and subsequently either decline the offer or fail to make the offer conditions. Colleges with a lower ratio than the average will be asked to receive candidates. The applicants performance in each interview is judged according to the admissions criteria, codified on a numeric scale against agreed descriptors, and shared among all tutors involved in admissions, together with the applicants UCAS forms and their test results. There were 114 places available for 2023 entry to the course, meaning there were 6.5 applications per available place. In both parts, we were looking for evidence of analytical ability, clarity of argument, the ability to support arguments with relevant evidence, intellectual flexibility, and enthusiasm for historical study. 1139022, Biochemistry admissions round 2022/2023 some initial statistics, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), 360 views - Conference and meeting areas, 360 views - Dining and accommodation areas, Socially Isolated - Spiritually Connected, Library & Archives: Opening hours, facilities, services, Contact the undergraduate admissions team, the University's Regional Outreach Scheme, https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/admissions-criteria-classical-archaeology-ancient-history, Details of the test and several past papers and specimen papers with solutions, https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/applying-to-oxford/guide/admissions-tests/elat, selection criteria for Economics & Management, will be available online from early January, standard selection criteria for History and the relevant joint schools, www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/prospective-undergraduates/how-apply/admissions-criteria, www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/maths-admissions-test, https://www.mod- langs.ox.ac.uk/faqs#faq-12, Cambridge Assessments Results Online system, standard selection criteria and admissions procedures, the suggestions on how to prepare for the admissions process available on the Physics Department website. Selection process: Candidates could be recommended for de-summoning if their first-choice college believed beyond reasonable doubt that candidates are not qualified to undertake a course in Oxford on the basis of one or more of the following specific grounds: poor results in official examinations; poor results predicted for A level or other impending examinations; negative school report; poor quality of written work; failure to demonstrate an interest in, and commitment to Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. Successful candidates for admission displayed the qualities listed below. All candidates for Maths, Maths & Statistics, Maths & Philosophy who took the MAT, and who have not withdrawn, will have their MAT score emailed to them automatically by the Admissions Coordinator at the end of the admissions process. In addition to their History interviews, candidates in the Joint Schools also received an interview in their other chosen subject. Candidates who withdrew or were not invited for interview: 65 The average number of 9s, 8s and A*s at GCSE by Biology applicants was 8.4. Shortlisting decisions are initially taken by the tutors in each college, but the Music tutors in all colleges which admit for the subject have access to the application materials and are able to call to interview any candidate not called by the first-choice college. Of the 74 applicants studying A-levels in the UK who werent taking Further Maths as a full A-level, 6 were shortlisted for interview, and fewer than 3 were offered a place. 0000005018 00000 n This year, shortlisted applicants who were invited to interview, on average, had eight GCSEs at grades 8/9/A*. 0000017965 00000 n Of the 371 female applicants, 77 were shortlisted and invited to interview, comprising 22.1% of the total shortlisted applicants. The Admissions Group has standard offers for those taking A-levels, the International Baccalaureate or Advanced Highers; college tutors will seek advice from admissions tutors or the Admissions Office in making other offers. A small number of candidates received their results late, or received revised BMAT scores due to a results query, after shortlisting had been completed. During the interviews, candidates were given the opportunity to demonstrate their motivation and commitment, and their capacity for the sustained study of language and literature. Webacceptance rates, statistics and application numbers for academic years 2013-2023 Report Undergraduate ~30% offer rate Postgraduate taught 38% offer rate 2 in 5 postgraduate taught applicants received an offer in 2020/21. These candidates are then assigned at random to other colleges. This year, the automatic threshold was set at 68%. Candidates for Classics and Modern Languages had a Classics interview lasting about 25 minutes. This article explains it in more detail. 32 eligible applicants applied for deferred entry (31 in 2021). Applicants were interviewed by both their first and second colleges, and a small number were invited to further interviews at a third college. Until 2015, this was known as the PAT report; from 2016 onwards, this became It is aimed primarily at assessing the candidates potential for future development. For Philosophy, all candidates were presented with a very short exercise designed to test their ability to assess, evaluate and criticise arguments, as well as to think through philosophical problems systematically and rigorously. Where an applicant for a joint honours degree has performed strongly in one of their subjects but will not be made an offer for the joint degree, tutors may consider offering them a place for a relevant single honours degree. Ten candidates who applied to Merton were ultimately offered a place at Oxford a success rate of 16%, compared to a success rate of 11% across Oxford reflecting the high standard of applications to Merton. The test is designed to test knowledge of basic structures of the foreign language. All figures in brackets relate to the previous admissions cycle, 2021/22. Prospective applicants may be interested in the suggestions on how to prepare for the admissions process available on the Physics Department website.
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