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20.What is the admissions process for second undergraduate degree candidates? Q20. What is the admissions process for second undergraduate degree candidates? Just the same as for first degree candidates. For further guidance, click here, or consult a college tutor for advice. Q21. How soon will I hear the result? We try to come to decisions quickly once the interviews are over and to let candidates know the outcome before Christmas. However, in 2012, owing to exceptional circumstances, decisions will be communicated by mid-January. Q22. What is the Classics Faculty's policy on gap years? About 10% of successful candidates are given places for deferred entry, and all colleges are willing to make such offers. Colleges are generally prepared to offer a deferred place to any candidate worthy of an undeferred place, but they usually do not offer more than one or two deferred places per subject, in order not to disadvantage the following year's candidates. Some applicants for deferred entry may either be offered an undeferred place or encouraged to apply again the following year. If a second college is willing to offer a deferred place to a candidate who wants one when the first-choice college offers only an undeferred place, the offer of a deferred place has precedence. But do bear in mind that it is crucial, if you are applying for a language-based course, to have a plan for how you will maintain your linguistic skills between leaving school and starting at university. Q23. If I get in, what will I have to do to prepare for the first year, so as to get the most out of the course? College tutors will usually write to successful candidates with advice about preparation for the course. In addition to reading that might be suggested, we often recommend that prospective students attend one of the excellent Latin or Greek summer schools before coming to Oxford. Q24. What do current undergraduates think of the course? The best way to find out is to ask them at the subject Open Day (held jointly with Cambridge each May) or at college Open Days. Q25. What kind of jobs are there for classicists at the end of the day? Graduates with classical degrees have an outstanding employment record, and their opportunities are as broad as those of any other arts students. They go on to further study, teaching, law, accountancy, into the City, central or local government, computing, industry. The University Careers Service has an excellent record in helping undergraduates to decide what they really want to do on graduating and to find a way of doing it. © C@O 2012: Classics at Oxford, Faculty of Classics. Webmaster. Last updated:
September 11, 2012.
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