Hello to all this year Oxbridge applicants!

Even though Oxford has not finalised the decisions for R4, the stages for 2010 admissions are already up. They seem to eliminate R4 and also moved the deadlines almost a month earlier – interesting. Cambridge have not changed their major admission schedule - they will have five rounds this year as well - but there is mentioning of introducing an online application system (similar to the Oxford one, I guess). Also, note that Cambridge did not give the deadlines for interview decisions - only the dates of the interview events.

Good luck!

Last year Oxbridge applicants thread
Separating Oxford from Cambridge

Oxford – Said Business School

Requirements:
GMAT - average given for reference is 680
TOEFL 109 or IELTS 7.5 (note – this is compulsory, not reference!)
Experience: usually 3+ years
GPA: usually equivalent of no less than good UK 2.1 degree or 3.5 GPA

2009 Rankings: Financial Times – 20, Business Week non-US MBA - 10
Application cost: 125 GBP

Official site: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/mba/
Admissions on Facebook
Admissions on Twitter
Our Oxford Said information thread


R1
Application deadline 9 October 2009
Interview decision by 30 October 2009
Final decision by 11 December 2009

R2
Application deadline 15 January 2010
Interview decision by 5 February 2010
Final decision by 12 March 2010

R3
Application deadline 2 April 2010
Interview decision by 30 April 2010
Final decision by 28 May 2010

Cambridge – Judge Business School

Requirements:
GMAT – average given for reference is 690 (balanced score is required)
TOEFL 100 with min 25 in writing or IELTS 7.0 (don’t know if they will change this)
Experience: usually 3+ years
GPA: usually equivalent of no less than UK 2.1 degree or 3.3 GPA

2009 Rankings: Financial Times – 17
Application cost: 100 GBP

Official site: http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/mba/index.html
Unofficial, but not uninteresting pages by their MBA Coordinator: Twitter, Blog. Note that the blog is mainly not about admissions, but about life in Cambridge.


R1
Application deadline 12 Oct 2009
Interview day 23 or 30 Nov 2009
Decision 27 Nov or 4 Dec

R2
Application deadline 23 Nov 2009
Interview day 18 or 25 Jan 2010
Decision 22 or 29 Jan 2010

R3
Application deadline 11 Jan 2010
Interview day 26 Feb or 1 or 8 Mar 2010
Decision 5 Mar or 12 Mar 2010

R4
Application deadline 8 Mar 2010
Interview day 23 or 26 Apr 2010
Decision 30 Apr 2010

R5
Application deadline 26 Apr 2010
Interview day 24 May 2010
Decision 28 May 2010

Thanks for the post!

Does anybody know when the Essay Questions will be released? I'm assuming there is not much difference between last year's questions? Does anyone have a last year's questions that they can send me?

Thanks,
D

Hi Greenoak,

Thanks for your useful post.

I understand from your post that Cambridge is known for changing essays from year to year. Are you aware whether Cambridge changes its short question from year to year? If not then it might be worthwhile to start with those from previous year application.

Cheers
Kaushik

Dear all,

This is my first post in gmatclub. I wish good luck to all of you. Here is a note from JBS website.

Applications for entry in September 2010 will open on 1 September 2009. Deadlines and their corresponding decision dates and proposed interview days are listed below. The essay questions will appear on this page within the next few weeks.
The following are the main essay questions on the Cambridge MBA application:

* Describe yourself. What are your strengths and how do you utilise them? What attributes would you like to improve upon and why? (up to 400 words)
* Describe the worst team experience you have ever had. What did you do? (up to 400 words)
* Either: In which place have you felt most inspired and why?
Or: If you only had twenty-four hours to live, how would you spend them? (up to 300 words)

Great thanks, Greenoak,

I found this website really very useful. I'm also planning to apply to Oxbridge for 2010. I'm working on my GMAT actually now. I'll do my best to apply in 1st round , but not fully sure about that. All the best to all applicants.

Yes, I would've been honored myself to be Greenoak's classmate. I just don't understand what have they those... people from Cambridge Judge thinking?!
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Hi Hhh,

Writing about ‘global things’, if they are not connected to you, is in fact not a good idea at all.

Story of personal development, on the contrary, could be fine – but whether it will successfully answer the question, depends on the content of the story. Even if it’s personal, it is still connected with some ideas, observations, concepts that made you think and inspired you to change – you changed, and it means that you perceive the world differently now. So, even in the story of your personal life, there could be a definite link to the more global and general issues – you could create a very strong essay if you develop this story in a right way.

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Hi All,

After a long time away from gmatclub, I am back.

Good luck to all 2010/11 Oxbridge applicants, i'll try to help greenoak in answering questions here.

-buff

This is a question about interviews for both Oxford and Cambridge.

I live in the US (west coast) and will not be able to attend the interviews personally in UK. My question is do you know if these schools schedule interviews in US (in my case, DC or SFO would be ideal).

If so, does this vary round by round depending on if they are visiting US.

If you were interviewed in the US, which round and where were you interviewed.

I was really hoping to get a personal interview (if I am selected, that is)

Guys,

I am applying to Judge soon. The R1 starts in a few weeks time and I have read the essay questions.

Nationality: Malaysia

My GMAT score: 630 (on the border line for Judge).

Work Experience: 3+ currently, but would be 4+ if I get admitted for 2010 intake

Background: Undergrad in Chemical Engineering but been working as a Service Executive (recently promoted) taking care of mechanics and being in charge of Sales

Anyone applying to Judge this year? Let's pool our resources.

P.S: I am also applying to Imperial College (got a place to stay there)... Imperial seems a bit easier on the deadlines, requirements, etc... (cos its not as good a school as Judge or Said, but hey it's decent enough)..