Applied for the March deadline. It was a long shot as I'm a returning student (been in the workforce for 9 years).

Got accepted (with funding) off of waitlist. I am not from the UK or EU. Notification for waitlist came on March 7th via email. Very excited.

Suspect my grades weren't high enough... I was on the 2:1/1st boarder

To the bitter, unfunded American spammer, please move on. And it's spelled *barely.

To the fully funded people below: I believe the point was that they do not fund masters unless ivy type schools and barley fund dphils for Americans. Which is true.

Has anyone from ODID heard back regarding funding? The dept was supposed to be back from Easter break today.

to the poster below: May I ask how you know that the interview was for both programmes? My interview for the AIMS program was with a potential supervisor for the DPhil EngSci as well and I have not been invited for another interview for the program, so I assume that my case could be the same. Thanks a lot!

Got deferred then rejected. MSc at UCL (ongoing). Strong research proposal. Some research experience. No publications. Got rejected from AIMS too. Interviewed for both at the same time.

To the below applicant: I´m also Colombian, congrats on your offer, I hope to meet you this fall. Btw: Facebook has an Oxford - Colombian society group...

Hello, I'm from Colombia. It was beyond my imagination that i was going to be accepted into this prestigious master in sciences program. I am waiting if I could be considered by one of the scholarships that the university supplies.

To the fellow applicant who got waitlisted after re-evaluation: did you get the email on the 13th as mentioned by you or was it on the 12th??

Interview on Thursday, got accepted next day!

For the record, I'm an American student, did not go to an ivy league school, and received full funding through Clarendon for my DPhil. Getting funding in general is not common, but it's possible (yes, even if you're not ivy league). Good luck to all those waiting!

The second day after interview received the conditional offer

For the sake of potential future applicants who may browse this thread for tips about funding, then grow increasingly anxious about the bizarrely antagonistic turn that some of these recent posts have taken, I would like to come forward to say that I'm an American with top grades from non-HYPS schools, combined with several years' worth of related work experience, and I got a Clarendon scholarship, as well as awards from other excellent universities in the UK. After doing extensive research about scholarship resources before applying, I neither expected funding from Oxford nor felt that I was somehow entitled to it. I feel immensely grateful for the opportunity and hope that others will take my experience as an encouragement to apply. It's a slow, frustrating process, and the University could indeed be more forthcoming about the relatively limited resources available for non-science candidates, but funding *is* possible. Good luck.

Have been put on the wait-list after being re-evaluated

To the person below: I also know students at Oxford who received funding. They are from ivies or little ivies. In addition, ivies do not make the best candidates, if you are an elitist then yes I assume you may think so. I think people should do research on their own. I do not know why you insist on discrediting my experience and obvious factual research. The Guardian is correct. In addition, your assumptions are incorrect. There are lawsuits regarding Oxford's elitism. Perhaps you work for the university. Simple research would show otherwise. Oh, and no, good luck to you.

To poster below, I'd be skeptical of your research. I am an American who currently attends Oxford and know grads who have gotten funding one way or another. Very few went to HYPS. Of last years Rhodes, only 10/32 went to HYPS. As far as Clarendons, in last year's American cohort, only a few went to HYPS. Of course, it fluctuates, and the year before last probably 1/2 or more went to HYPS or equivalent. However, that is changes year to year is pretty good evidence they're just looking for the best candidates and sometimes lots of those come from the most prestigious schools. Consider the non-US international students from around the world; the university doesn't refuse to fund them just because they didn't go to HYPS. But when a Harvard student who was valedictorian for their subject area has a great research idea applies, yes, I think the University will often preference that person because it has good reason to believe the student will succeed. They are looking at who the best candidates to undertake top-quality research at one of the best universities in the world. Many do have *relevant* work experience, be that in a lab or in a field that directly pertains to their research, but the University prides itself on being 'academic' and therefore worrying less about your work experience and more about your ability to conduct research. I agree they should be clearer about how little funding there is, particularly for SocSci and Humanities, but people should also be better about researching and realizing that they are very unlikely to be funded. Among current students, that's common knowledge and tutors will tell us how slim the chances of funding are, but it seems a lot of non-Oxford applicants don't realize how low their chances are so get very disappointed when they get accepted and don't get funding. It's true the university uses Masters as a cash-cow and relies on rich international students to pay the fees, but that's sadly not that strange. Most masters in the US are now like that, and other than Cambridge, no other UK university gives out nearly as much money. That you -- and I -- were not considered one of the 35 best students (the top 2% of all students) in our DIVISIONS does not mean that it's because they only fund HYPS students. I go to Oxford, my friends are top quality students at Oxford, and none of us got Clarendons. There is no elitist conspiracy against you, and telling people they shouldn't apply is a pernicious thing to do simply because you didn't get funding. Best of luck in the college-allocated rounds.

Waitlisted after re-evaluation. It's driving me crazy. Going to accept the offer from UChicago.