Since the first inquiries are rolling in, perhaps it is time for a new thread for yet another year of Oxbridge applications. Oxford seems to have kept the stages for 2010-11 admissions similar to those last year. Cambridge has added a couple of interview dates for R3, stretching the interview process to a month-long, compared to the usual week-long process. They are probably expecting a big swell of applications in R3, which could perhaps reflect last year's high demand after R1 dings from other schools were out. This means also thar R4 and R5 dates are pushed forward with about a month. Below is a modified version of Greenoak's information package from last year's thread. Good luck! Last year's Oxbridge applicants thread Oxbridge applicants thread from two years ago 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 – 16, 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 8 October 2010 Interview decision by 29 October 2010 Final decision by 10 December 2010 R2 Application deadline 14 January 20101 Interview decision by 4 February 2011 Final decision by 11 March 2011 R3 Application deadline 1 April 2011 Interview decision by 29 April 2011 Final decision by 27 May 2011 Cambridge – Judge Business School Requirements: GMAT – average given for reference is 690 (balanced score is required) TOEFL: *Requirements for entry in 2011:TOEFL 100 with min 25 in writing or IELTS 7.0 *Requirements for entry in 2012 onwards: TOEFL 110 with min 25 in each section or IELTS 7.5 with no element below 7.0 Experience: usually 3+ years GPA: usually equivalent of no less than UK 2.1 degree or 3.3 GPA One recommendation from a supervisor and one from a peer 2009 Rankings : Financial Times – 21, Business Week non-US MBA - second tier Application cost : 100 GBP Official site: https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/mba/index.html Admissions on Facebook Unofficial informational tweets by an MBA Coordinator: Twitter Blog . Note that the blog is mainly not about admissions, but about life in Cambridge. R1 Application deadline 4 Oct 2010 Interview day 5 and 8 Nov 2010 Decision 11 Nov 2010 R2 Application deadline 6 Dec 2010 Interview day 14 and 17 Jan 2011 Decision 20 Jan 2011 R3 Application deadline 10 Jan 2011 Interview day 7 Feb, 14 Feb, 21 Feb, and 7 Mar 2011 Decision 24 Feb, 3 Mar or 10 Mar 2011 R4 Application deadline 14 Mar 2010 Interview day 29 or 16 May 2011 Decision 19 May 2011 R5 Application deadline 16 Apr 2011 Interview day 10 Jun and 13 Jun 2011 Decision 16 Jun 2011

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Oxford has all the usual clubs you would hope to find at leading B-schools. I don't know why they dont promote them more on the web. But, all the usual suspects and more in terms of social clubs are there.. getting very involved in all but few during one year course is difficult though!

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Here's an interesting dilemma. I scanned my transcripts into a pdf document, but the file is too large (right now it's 1.4 MB, they allow up to 500 KB). Any suggestions on how to compress a pdf document? Or how to change the resolution so the document scans at a lower resolution?

Try scanning B&W instead of full colour and also decrease scanning resolution to 200 or 300 dpi then file size should reduce. If you have more than 2 transcripts, it might be difficult.

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If the transcript is coloured, take a black & white xerox and then scan it. It should solve your problem. Also check, you are scanning the copy in pdf format.

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when scanning, try lower resolution (usual defaults are 300dpi, try 150 and the image should be decent enough quality and reduce the file size too)

good luck!

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when u scan as a jpg (as given in the above posts), and paste the jpg on a word doc, check the 'save as' drop down window. u will see a lot of choices, select the save as type pdf. in pdf, out of two choices 'optimise for standard or minimum size' select minimum size (online publishing). The file will save within the 500 kb desired 8-)

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You can copy the content from pdf to word doc and then use doc-to-pdf converter. It will be fine.

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Thanks for all the tips!

I ended up having to copy into black and white, scan as a TIFF file at 200 dpi x 200 dpi (the lowest resolution I could get on the machine), copy the TIFF images into a Word document, and then save the Word document as a pdf file. The transcript is 2 pages, not sure if that has something to do with my issues or the absurb amount of watermarks on the transcripts. Either way, I'm very grateful for all the suggestions, otherwise I would most probably still be pulling my hair out over this

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Hi, all. Just submitted my application for Cambridge R2.
M/30/GMAT 740/BSc/5 years telecom
Good luck everyone!

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OK, one last question on the Cambridge app (I know, I'm cutting it down to the wire).

They have the box on the Academic Information page where it asks whether you want to share any additional information. When do you feel it is necessary to share additional information? Is there a GPA cutoff at which point the adcom is going to want to know why you didn't ace all your classes in university? Are there GMAT splits that need to be explained? Right now I'm planning to leave it blank, but have considered writing something in the box a few times. Any guidance would be appreciated!

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anything such as reason for low scores, break in studies or anything you think you need to explain in respect of a weakness in the apl.

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Done with my interview with Oxford on Nov 29th. Awaiting results now...does anyone know the conversion rate of Oxford?

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If you need to do it, do it. But if your GPA and GMAT are at least at their average, writing about them in the optional section might just draw unnecessary attention to them.

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Done with my interview with Oxford on Nov 29th. Awaiting results now...does anyone know the conversion rate of Oxford?

I don't know exact numbers, but from following last year's discussions I have a hunch it's high, around 50%.

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OK, application submitted to Cambridge for R2. Simultaneously nervous and excited...

F/30/GMAT 710/BSc/4 yr Army, 4 yr engineering consulting

Good luck everyone!

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Done with my interview with Oxford on Nov 29th. Awaiting results now...does anyone know the conversion rate of Oxford?

Last Year around 1100 applicants in total / approx 550 got invited for interview / 280 odd offered / 250 matriculating.. considering R3 has less application : offer rate I would like to believe that R1 should be > or = 50%.

All the best .. few more days to go...

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this might be a dumb question, but does oxford have social clubs? I haven't found anything on their website and it's usually very easy to find club information for most schools.

Oxford's version is called Oxford Business Networks (Check the brochure for some info on that) and they exist for areas like consulting, finance, entrepreneuship, etc..

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There are two types: the ones run by MBAs - namely OBNs, mostly job-related (focused on an industry or a geographical region) and the ones run by College or University students, mostly sport or other interest related (e.g. rugby, gliding, yachting, microfinance, debate, wine tasting, etc).

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I applied for Cambridge R2. I see the actual interview dates published, but when do interview decisions usually go out?

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I applied for Cambridge R2. I see the actual interview dates published, but when do interview decisions usually go out?

From last year's thread, I noticed someone got an interview call on Friday, Dec 18, 2009. So it is likely to be Dec 17 this year.

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this might be a dumb question, but does oxford have social clubs? I haven't found anything on their website and it's usually very easy to find club information for most schools.

Oxford's version is called Oxford Business Networks (Check the brochure for some info on that) and they exist for areas like consulting, finance, entrepreneuship, etc..

Thanks a11c99, it always helps to hear from the horse's mouth!! - as they say...