11.12.17 // Keble college, Oxford • I just got home from my interviews at Oxford so I thought I’d share my experience!
Oxford interview experience part 1 (Medicine)
As you can tell from the pictures, on Sunday morning I had quite a big surprise to see it was snowing! ❄️❄️ It was really stressful getting into Oxford, as all the trains were cancelled. In the end, I begged someone I know who has a four-wheel drive to give me a lift in and although we were going at like 5 mph we got to Oxford.
Once I’d arrived at Keble, I was shown to my room and given my interview times. After settling in, I went for a briefing with the interviewers, who introduced themselves and took pictures of us (I assume so they can remember our faces). I was first on the list, so I went in for my ‘academic potential’ interview!
The interviewers were soo friendly and made me feel at ease, so even when they asked me very difficult questions I didn’t panic and managed to hold it together. It was actually quite an enjoyable experience - more like a discussion than them grilling me.
I was supposed to have a second ‘suitability for medicine’ interview, but the interviewers couldn’t get in because of the snow! So once my interview was over (it lasted about 20-25 minutes) I was free for the rest of the day.
I went into the JCR (junior common room) with the other candidates who were waiting for their interviews. I met some really lovely people, and once we’d all finished our interviews we went to dinner together. Keble’s hall is beautiful and the food was really good.
Afterwards, me and about 6 people I’d met decided to go into the centre and have a wander, which was really lovely (if cold!). When we got back to Keble we had a look around the chapel, which is absolutely stunning, before someone started a snowball fight!
After that it was an early night as we all had interviews the following morning :)
