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 sbs.jpg 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: https://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 JBS.jpg 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: https://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

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Salisaaa

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18 Dec 2009, 01:38

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I I think they want faculty to interview you. However, no harm asking. I was interviewed in my
home town by
visiting faculty during info
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annae

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18 Dec 2009, 02:05

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They organize an open day at Cambridge for all interviewed candidates. You get to attend a class, meet students, alumni, and to be interviewed of course. It is always a good thing to be able to attend, especially since you show you make an effort. But like Salisaaa showed with an admit, I guess no harm done if you interview in your own country.

The waitlist is probably for the two coming rounds. I suppose they will contact waitlisted people after decisions for both rounds 2 and 3, in case they don't get enough interviews or admits who choose to matriculate.

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21 Dec 2009, 20:20

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i will definitely try to make it for the interview day at cambridge! good to be familiarised with the people/place early on...

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26 Dec 2009, 20:12

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Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

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27 Dec 2009, 19:40

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humblewinner

Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

hey humblewinner, made up your mind?? said or LBS?? its tough ye

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28 Dec 2009, 14:42

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Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

hey humblewinner, made up your mind?? said or LBS?? its tough ye

Hello boeinz, not yet.. worried about financing.. exploring about scholarships and bank loans.. I was attracted to both schools for different reasons when I started the process.. I guess, its a happy place to be in.

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28 Dec 2009, 18:47

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Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

hey humblewinner, made up your mind?? said or LBS?? its tough ye

definitely a happy place! hope to reach there in a few months time myself :-D

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28 Dec 2009, 20:34

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Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

hey humblewinner, made up your mind?? said or LBS?? its tough ye

Hi Humblewinner,

need your advise. On the career essay of SBS, how concrete we need to be interms of post mba goals and plan for first five years. I am planning to start up my company , so have may be around 100 words to talk about what i wanted to do with this company and where i see my company in 5 years. Not able to chart a detailed game plan for 200 or 300 words

any advise

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Updated on: 29 Dec 2009, 00:17

Originally posted by humblewinner on 28 Dec 2009, 22:45.
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Hello ISBtarget,

The first question covers a lot of ground. You need to speak about why you chose your current job (some details about what you are doing), how you see your career growing over 5 years, how an mba assist you (including details of why oxford, though the question specifically doesnt ask that)

It is a 1000 word question, so you have a lot of space to address these in detail. It is important to speak about the future more than the past - which includes why oxford and why mba and your goals. As far as the five year plan goes, it will be easier if you can breakdown to short term (immediately after mba), long term (over 5 years) and longer term career vision. Again this will be digressing from the question, but you have the margin here.. As far as your enterpreneurial venture goes, the more specific you are the better it is, it shows that you have put a great deal of thought. The adcom however will understand that you don't have a business plan yet (why would you need an MBA in that case!).. So break it down as well and tie it with your short term and long term visions..

Hope that helps. Good luck!

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28 Dec 2009, 23:03

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I hate asking too many questions without doing research but I really thought I would start here since there are so many people passionate about Said here.

1. Quick questions - so do you think there is time for an international applicant to apply for Said in R3? I know my chances are much lower and all that but in terms of the logistics - financing, visa etc ....will there be time to do all that?

2. And also, any thoughts about Oxford for general management? I know it's excellent for social entrepreneurship and also for consulting...

Thanks in advance

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29 Dec 2009, 08:50

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Great advise thank you.

I have spent 400 words on my current job and achievements, i think i need to shorten this. I have also spent 200 words to talk about why entrepreneurship and how this ambition started in my college...need to cut this as well.

thanks for your advise...wonderful

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02 Jan 2010, 13:38

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Curious to know what people think about applying in Oxford's Round 3.

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03 Jan 2010, 03:25

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I'm currently battling with essay 2 of the SBS application. I tried to put it off for a while and now I think I might be able to come up with something decent. Let's hope it's decent enough for an interview. :wink:

I hope to submit the application in the beginning of the week, because I still have two scholarship application deadlines coming up mid-month.

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03 Jan 2010, 03:38

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Hi All,

Really in need of some urgent help here..I am planning to apply for the R2 Oxford intake.. the only issue which I am facing now is related to the academic transcripts. A friend of mine who had applied earlier said that the mark sheets for my university degreee contain all the information required by the adcom and would suffice as an academic transcript. Some others have told me that I would need a separate academic transcripts which would have to be obtained from the University. This process would take around 20 days which would mean that I would miss out on the R2 deadline (15th Jan) for application. Request you all to throw some light on this issue.. Should I call up the administration department of Oxford?

Thanks
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04 Jan 2010, 01:13

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^why don't just just ask admission office - you'll be sure to get correct information.

I submitted my application for Saïd R2. This was the last application for me, and it feels weird not to have to stress about applications anymore. Now I just need to work on a couple of scholarship applications.

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Please count me in for R2.
Applying to LBS and to Oxford SBS (seems that middle east Sheikhs have big influence on both the schools, specially the latter as after being confused for a while on what Said means, found out that it is the name of a middle east businessman, a big benefactor. I like Saïd... double dot on top of i)

Thanks for this useful post and Many Congratulations to R1 admits!!
...hope to join your elite league!

Working on the essays now. Oxford essays have given lot of room to spread wings, but so much of bandwidth also makes it easy to lose focus and "crispiness"!

Please address these few questions of mine when you get a chance:
- Is there anyone from Japan in the forum applying this year? Any alumni?
- I heard that for oxford, personal interview and traveling to the school to meet students and faculty is recommended? Also that faculty interview is a must? Any admits who did telephonic interviews or interviewed with alumni?

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07 Jan 2010, 12:00

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humblewinner

Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

Humblewinner and Oxford admits

My recommender is asking for help on what to write as weakness. He actually shown me something where he said it was a weakness but I have improved on his feedback. Is this ok.

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hi all jbs applicants,

r3 deadline is 11 jan 2010... but i cant find on the website what time does application close... anyone can help?? thanks...

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09 Jan 2010, 09:38

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humblewinner

Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

Hi All

Where i can find standard CV templates for B schools. Oxford is asking for one

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09 Jan 2010, 15:48

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humblewinner

Received my Oxford admit packet today. Looks impressive, no signs of a scholarship though.. Have received emails to submit essays for Skoll and Vodafone scholarships..

Hi All

Where i can find standard CV templates for B schools. Oxford is asking for one

1) Where can i find CV templates for B schools - I was able to figure out some templates in the forum. please suggest if anyone has got any more information
2) I have a gap of one year in my education.Where do i justify this in the oxford application. ISB application had a place holder for this in the online application itself. could you please suggest