Oxford & Imperial MCF 2022 Applications

[McfOxfInt]

Regarding the prestige of the program, I would add that it also really depends where you want to work. I am originally from a middle eastern country and I don’t think imperial or LSE will be that known in comparison to Oxford or Cambridge. However, this isn’t true if you were to work in the US- LSE and Imperial are both pretty known since ranking is much more prominent.
What I said above is probably true for career in industry and not research.

 

[txj]

Applied to both programmes and received IC's offer in late November with condition 80% overall degree (high first). Still waiting for oxford MCF. When do you approximately expect to get the result?

 

[McfOxfInt]

Applied to both programmes and received IC's offer in late November with condition 80% overall degree (high first). Still waiting for oxford MCF. When do you approximately expect to get the result?

They usually make the decisions in 8-10 weeks so I would assume by the end of March.
Do you mind sharing your background?

Also does any of you know why last year there was a spike in the number of applicants to the program?

 

[txj]

They usually make the decisions in 8-10 weeks so I would assume by the end of March.
Do you mind sharing your background?

Also does any of you know why last year there was a spike in the number of applicants to the program?

Sure. I'm having my undergraduate in UCL maths with high 1st in my year 2 grade.

Last year most of the results came out on 25th Feb, do you think that gives a good example of how long do they usually need to process applications? Remember there were 700+ applications so I assume it will come shortly.

I was surprised as well by the huge increase in the number of applications for mcf as risk.net stated. With the oxford official website stating the three-year average was 400+, given 2019 and 2020 are both around 250, the 700+ data for 2021 makes sense. From my personal perspective, it's due to pandemic related stuff though I don't fully understand either.

 

[McfOxfInt]

Thanks for sharing your background!

Yes last year a few people received offers on Feb 25. Do you know when was the deadline? This year it was on Jan 21st (no idea what it was last year) which is two weeks after the classic January deadline.

 

[txj]

Thanks for sharing your background!

Yes last year a few people received offers on Feb 25. Do you know when was the deadline? This year it was on Jan 21st (no idea what it was last year) which is two weeks after the classic January deadline.

As far as I know it was 22nd Jan, so roughly the same.,

 

[McfOxfInt]

Interesting. Well, I have no idea. Let’s hope we are still in the game haha

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I'm gathering a master list of UK master quant programs so if you guys have a list of contacts at those programs (director name/email, admin/staff, etc) I'd love to have it.

 

[Skylime]

They usually make the decisions in 8-10 weeks so I would assume by the end of March.
Do you mind sharing your background?

Also does any of you know why last year there was a spike in the number of applicants to the program?

I suspect the spike is mostly driven by international applications. I think it has to do with covid, rising crime rate, and uncertainty around student visas in the US.

 

[Hersheychestnut]

Oxford is sending out offer now

 

[MCF_OxIC]

Oxford is sending out offer now

Did you receive one? How do you know?

 

[MCF_OxIC]

Oxford is sending out offer now

Did you receive one? How do you know?

 

[McfOxfInt]

Oxford is sending out offer now

Joining the how do you know question haha
Do you know if they interviewed people?

 

[Hersheychestnut]

Did you receive one? How do you know?

yes, I received the offer around an hour ago!

 

[McfOxfInt]

yes, I received the offer around an hour ago!

Congrats!! Do you mind sharing your background, when you applied and whether you had an interview?

 

[McfOxfInt]

yes, I received the offer around an hour ago!

Also did your upload button disappear?

 

[Tianhv]

Also received the offer.

 

[Hersheychestnut]

Congrats!! Do you mind sharing your background, when you applied and whether you had an interview?

Canadian top 2 university, math major (gpa: 3.95/4.0), one internship (data analyst), three research experience. I submitted on November 20th and do not have an interview. Btw, my friend also received the offer without an interview.

 

[Hersheychestnut]

Also did your upload button disappear?

I received the offer letter by email. Nothing changed in my application portal...

 

[McfOxfInt]

I received the offer letter by email. Nothing changed in my application portal...

Thank you for sharing your background and additional info! And again- congrats!!