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Guidelines for the profile

Please send your profile and a photograph to access@ousu.org.

Your profile should include:

Student name; Year when interviewed; Subject studied.

Length: Up to 1000 words

Areas to cover:

•    Why did you apply to Oxford?

•    What preparation did you do for your application and before your interviews?

•    Please describe the format of the interviews you had, including some of the topics covered (but not specific questions) and how the interviews went.

•    Please describe any admissions tests you may have sat.

•    What activities and experiences did you enjoy when not being interviewed (e.g. JCR organised events, meeting other interviewees)?

•    Was there anything you did which you thought helped, or anything you think you should have done when preparing which would have been useful?

•    What was your overall impression of the interview process - what did they expect, how did it compare to what happened and what did they take away from the process?