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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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

I just used my professional CV (reduced it to keep highlights and make it 1 page <- this was a requirement in LBS)
Also, the LBS application mentioned that if there is any gap you would like to explain, use the second page of CV to do that. Maybe you can do the same for SBS application also... mail their contact and confirm.

Also unlike LBS, in Oxford there isn't any free text area where I can supplement with relevant information (either in the essays or in the previous education section)... so i guess we have to accommodate as in the essays and CV.

'think that the current students must be busy in networking and placement events...
hope to get some inputs from them on this and the previous question on interviews... also looks like the selectivity is tough! close to 50% of members in 2009 who got invite for interviews were dinged!

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submitted JBS app for Round 3!

good luck to other applicants!

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also looks like the selectivity is tough! close to 50% of members in 2009 who got invite for interviews were dinged!

Seriously? Yikes.

Now it's just waiting for me... I just emailed JBS to remind them of my existence, as i was waitlisted in R2. They're still my number one.

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also looks like the selectivity is tough! close to 50% of members in 2009 who got invite for interviews were dinged!

Seriously? Yikes.

Now it's just waiting for me... I just emailed JBS to remind them of my existence, as i was waitlisted in R2. They're still my number one.

annae, im rooting for you!

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Thanks friend.

And best of luck with your own application!

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Thanks a lot for your input. Another question though

After completing the initial draft of my CV, i felt that lot of information given through my essay is repeating in the CV as well. Though its obvious doesnt it gives the reviewer a feel that i am repeating info and have less acheivements to write about

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I have a curious and maybe a bit stupid question. What's with the term "Oxbridge"? I thought Oxford and Cambridge are two different schools with two different application processes. Why are they grouped together?

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OXford + camBRIDGE...

maybe most applicants apply simultaneously to both schools?

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It's a general term used for the two universities, as they historically are the undisputed top two educational institutions in the UK.

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Hi All,

I am in dilemma between the following two options for my Oxford application.

1. Apply before R2 deadline 15th Jan 2010. I can manage to complete the essays before the dealine but I can improve them and make the application better I waited for R3.

2. Miss R2 deadline and apply in R3 before 02 April 2010. That way I will much more time to do better essays and overall a more robust application.

I have heard that it always beneficial to apply early. It is worth waiting for R3 to put forth a better application ? Do they take many people in the last round ?
I have 720 in GMAT.

Any ideas, opinions, suggestions will be most welcome.

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Rav

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Hello,

The oxford application has two upload buttons for transcripts for undergraduate degree and one upload button for graduate degree.

I have 8 transcripts for my undergraduate degree (for 8 semesters) and I am not able to upload beyond 2 transcripts. Using the first two buttons after uploading 2 transcripts simply replaces the existing transcript. How can i upload more than two ? Is anyelse facing the same problem ?

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Hi Humble winner

How did you manage to upload the documents. I am facing the same issue, if i compress in paint i am getting a bad image quality and not sure if it will be readable

also do we need to upload our degree certificate. they are asking only for transcripts

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Since SBS has not mentioned any page limit, can we go about 1.5 to 2 pages of CV. is this advisable

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Since SBS has not mentioned any page limit, can we go about 1.5 to 2 pages of CV. is this advisable

I guess that depends very much on your CV. My standard CV is two pages: basic info, education, and work experience on page 1, publications, conference presentations, positions of trust, and personal interests on page 2. No way I could fit all relevant info on one page.

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Since SBS has not mentioned any page limit, can we go about 1.5 to 2 pages of CV. is this advisable

Hi

Oxford apps has got 5000 characters to explain roles and responsbilities
7900 characters for hobbies and achievements

I could hardly use 2000 characters in each ....how about you guyz

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Yohooo, got the application submitted in time! must have done at least 10-15 self-reviews for the essays!
A complete brain-jamm in the end, luckily a friend agreed to proof read and pointed out some mistakes I would have easily overlooked....

Now the excruciating wait!!

In the roles/responsibilities etc. I did not put more than 2-4 lines (other than the current job and hobbies, even that must have been much less than 5000...).
Apart from essays, all other places were short, hope the ad-com gives some points for being brief and lucid

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If you look at the print-ready PDF which is the one the adcom gets in their hands, you will notice there's no way all those characters would ever fit there, so better keep it shorter. I remember I had to edit my text to fit into the boxes.

and good luck to all R2 submitters. May the Favor of Adcom be with us.

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JBS changed the application section of their website. Now there's added information about the application process, as well as a new interview date for R3: 12 March. Seems like they crammed two days in one and had to push it forward with at least one week (previous dates Feb 26th and March 1st or 8th).

I guess now we can expect news not earlier than beginning of February.

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maybe JBS does not have many vacancies left and they might have received many more applications in Round 3... doesnt look good...

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I submitted my applications for Oxford R2 yesterday and Cambridge R3 two weeks ago. The PDF version is a preview and is known to have problems. In my case, the passages that I provided for the work experience and hobbies were truncated. The PDF version also reported that one of my uploads was corrupt.
Oxford's adcom team confirmed that this is a problem specific to the PDF version and that the version that they receive would be complete.
So, if you have 5000/7900 characters to write, do go ahead. The adcom should see it all.