Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student

Re:Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student by swombat on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @08:25AM (#3479501)

That's a system that Oxford explicitly rejects. They even give a test for science candidates, and then don't really care about the results (they're just there to check that you're not completely ignorant).

Oxford selects for potential, not for test results. How do they judge that potential? Well, they have developed detectors which are really advanced, carefully calibrated, extremely sensitive and incredibly difficult to game.

Those detectors come in the form of "professors" who have been teaching for 20+ years and know how to judge a student's potential from a 20 minute interview.

Disclaimer: I went to Oxford.

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Re:Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student by mstevens on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @08:40AM (#3479580)

What evidence is there for the quality of these "detectors"?

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Re:Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student by swombat on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @05:04PM (#3482059)

The incredible quality of people that study there, and of the people that come out of it.

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Re:Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student by mstevens on Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:48AM (#3483942)

I'm just generally very suspicious of any "expert judges situation by magical intuition" story.

I do generally have a good opinion of Oxbridge, despite the fact they turned me down :)

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