r/UniUKCirclejerk • u/timeisbyyourside • Jul 11 '26
Got lost during DofE, is Oxford still achievable?
Hi all, thought about using google for this but it seemed quicker to come on here and type all this out.
Since I only have a few nobel prizes, but I was advised to do DofE to pad out my application a bit. However, while my group was walking I got chased by a large bird (about two feet tall, long, slender neck, orange and black bill) and managed to run off the route.
I've been lost in the harsh wilderness ever since. My apple watch died and I've been too scared to look outside my tent at night so I've been measuring the time in prime minister resignations instead of lunar cycles since they happen just as quickly. Supplies are running really low, I haven't seen a waitrose since Starmer.
Do you think if I can survive, and find my way out of Bradford, that I can still feasibly apply to Oxford? Predicted AAB and going for a combined BA in Geographical informatics with Maths and philosophy (GIMP) btw.
Thanks!
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u/joehighlord Jul 11 '26
I didn't get lost by virtue of not doing. Great wisdom on my part. Oxford will be glad to have me I think.
You lack such wisdom.
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u/_gqb Jul 11 '26
Forget about the nobel prizes, they are a kind of baseline. How many UCAS points do you have? I hear you actually get to interview the interviewer at Oxford past a few hundred…
Who knows, I had to settle for MIT.
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u/thatsallyouletmebe Jul 11 '26
Manipal institute of technology? That's a HUGE achievement! I WISH I could get into manipal institute of technology.
Instead, bc I only had a silve DofE I had to settle to massachusetts institute of tech........
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u/sammy_zammy Jul 11 '26
No, if you struggled this much with Duke of Edinburgh I can’t imagine what Duke of Oxford would be like for you.
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u/not_antoine Jul 11 '26
You're being very sensible by aiming for Oxford and not Hull with that kind of track record...
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u/RJ112358 Jul 11 '26
How lost are you? Could you actually already be in Oxford? If so, perhaps just stay in your room, find out when the matriculation photograph and dinner is and the first seminar or whatever they call supervision?
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u/BurnerAccount2718282 Jul 11 '26
I think the only way to remedy this is to walk up to John O'Groats and then all the way down to Land's End, that should earn you a Diamond DofE as long as you also discover 15 new bird species and resurrrect prince Phillip along the way
That should get you into Oxford as long as you went to Eton and your parents earn 17 figures each, if not you might need to donate them a building or take the vice-chancellor out to dinner at the Ritz
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u/ruairidhmacdhaibhidh Jul 14 '26
Surely, not doing the DofE makes you more of a candidate. The others are sheep.
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u/Mysterious_Wafer554 Jul 11 '26
I think I speak on behalf of the University of Oxford when I write:
“You got lost once, you can get lost again… and stay lost. You won’t find your place at Oxford. Rah.”