Any rejection email today? Or its radio silent for you guys as it is for me?

I hope the wait isn’t stressing you out too much… I totally understand how horrible oblivion can feel. Try not to think about it and focus on something else. It’s not worth worrying over.

Hi - I got it yesterday (Fri) around 10 AM GMT. Not really sure when the button disappeared as I had lost all my hopes and wasn't checking :D

Wait is over! Finally got my conditional offer letter for MLF programme. Good luck to everyone else!
For all those who have received their letters and intend to accept it - please DM and I will add you to the Whatsapp group!

Hi! Congratulations! Very glad that your hard work paid off! 
Did you receive the offer today or yesterday? 

Good Morning to my BCL/MJur applicants! Tomorrow starts a very tense week for us and I want to say I have found solace in this space. I've been reading the previous threads from 2018 to 2022 and here is what I gathered. 
1. Unlike Cambridge, Oxford hands out offers first,  then waitlists and rejections. I am personally not a fan of this as I feel the torture intensifies. 
2. The decision-making deadline for BCL was always the 16th of March, except for the "Covid years". 
3.There was an a strong correlation between button disappearances and receiving offers, except for 1 or 2 instances where the applicant's portal never changed. I am personally frustrated with the whole button saga so I have decided not to check it. Que sera sera, although quiero Oxford. 
4. A significant number of applicants who were unsuccessful in the BCL/MJur were successful in the Cambridge LLM and MLF. I believe this is because Cambridge has a 3% higher acceptance rate than Oxford. I noted this down because I saw several questions raised regarding this in our thread.
5. I found 3 people in total, from 2018-2022 who got rejected from the Cambridge LLM and MLF who got accepted into the BCL/MJur. Realistically speaking such occurrences are rare but not impossible. 
6. There are Facebook groups for BCL/MJur etc offer holders that open up on Facebook when decisions have been made. So keep an eye out for those. 
7. International offers were rolled out first in alphabetical order of the applicants' countries.  Then UK. 
8. Your applicant portal will not change even after you have been made an offer/waitlisted/unsuccessful. In emails we trust. 
9. If the need arises, the fastest way to contact Admissions office is by calling them, which in the previous threads was undertaken by UK applicants. 
10. Getting a rejection is not the end all be all of your dream to study at Oxford. I found countless instances where people had tried again in the following years and got in.

Hope this helped!

Good Morning to my BCL/MJur applicants! Tomorrow starts a very tense week for us and I want to say I have found solace in this space. I've been reading the previous threads from 2018 to 2022 and here is what I gathered. 
1. Unlike Cambridge, Oxford hands out offers first,  then waitlists and rejections. I am personally not a fan of this as I feel the torture intensifies. 
2. The decision-making deadline for BCL was always the 16th of March, except for the "Covid years". 
3.There was an a strong correlation between button disappearances and receiving offers, except for 1 or 2 instances where the applicant's portal never changed. I am personally frustrated with the whole button saga so I have decided not to check it. Que sera sera, although quiero Oxford. 
4. A significant number of applicants who were unsuccessful in the BCL/MJur were successful in the Cambridge LLM and MLF. I believe this is because Cambridge has a 3% higher acceptance rate than Oxford. I noted this down because I saw several questions raised regarding this in our thread.
5. I found 3 people in total, from 2018-2022 who got rejected from the Cambridge LLM and MLF who got accepted into the BCL/MJur. Realistically speaking such occurrences are rare but not impossible. 
6. There are Facebook groups for BCL/MJur etc offer holders that open up on Facebook when decisions have been made. So keep an eye out for those. 
7. International offers were rolled out first in alphabetical order of the applicants' countries.  Then UK. 
8. Your applicant portal will not change even after you have been made an offer/waitlisted/unsuccessful. In emails we trust. 
9. If the need arises, the fastest way to contact Admissions office is by calling them, which in the previous threads was undertaken by UK applicants. 
10. Getting a rejection is not the end all be all of your dream to study at Oxford. I found countless instances where people had tried again in the following years and got in.

Hope this helped!

[Edited by giga_bot94 on Mar 12, 2023]

Good Morning to my BCL/MJur applicants! Tomorrow starts a very tense week for us and I want to say I have found solace in this space. I've been reading the previous threads from 2018 to 2022 and here is what I gathered. 
1. Unlike Cambridge, Oxford hands out offers first,  then waitlists and rejections. I am personally not a fan of this as I feel the torture intensifies. 
2. The decision-making deadline for BCL was always the 16th of March, except for the "Covid years". 
3.There was an a strong correlation between button disappearances and receiving offers, except for 1 or 2 instances where the applicant's portal never changed. I am personally frustrated with the whole button saga so I have decided not to check it. Que sera sera, although quiero Oxford. 
4. A significant number of applicants who were unsuccessful in the BCL/MJur were successful in the Cambridge LLM and MLF. I believe this is because Cambridge has a 3% higher acceptance rate than Oxford. I noted this down because I saw several questions raised regarding this in our thread.
5. I found 3 people in total, from 2018-2022 who got rejected from the Cambridge LLM and MLF who got accepted into the BCL/MJur. Realistically speaking such occurrences are rare but not impossible. 
6. There are Facebook groups for BCL/MJur etc offer holders that open up on Facebook when decisions have been made. So keep an eye out for those. 
7. International offers were rolled out first in alphabetical order of the applicants' countries.  Then UK. 
8. Your applicant portal will not change even after you have been made an offer/waitlisted/unsuccessful. In emails we trust. 
9. If the need arises, the fastest way to contact Admissions office is by calling them, which in the previous threads was undertaken by UK applicants. 
10. Getting a rejection is not the end all be all of your dream to study at Oxford. I found countless instances where people had tried again in the following years and got in.

Hope this helped!

Thank you for this - really interesting to note your observations!

On point 4, in the context of Oxford, the intake for BCL/MJur is 140/ ~661. This leads to an acceptance rate of ~21.8%. On the other hand, the intake for the MLF is 45/ ~409, meaning the acceptance rate is ~11%. If greater acceptance rates at Cambridge justify why those rejected for the BCL/MJur are being accepted there, then that logic does not apply for the MLF, right?

The limited point I want to make is that that the acceptance rate may not be the primary factor, but there are different independent criteria that the three programmes (i.e., BCL/ MJur, MLF, and LLM) employ for acceptance, leading to these results when applied to specific applicant profiles. I suppose this would also be consistent with your point 5.

Again, thanks for this!

Incase anyone is losing hope, I was waitlisted for the MLF and got accepted onto the BCL a few years back. My friend was rejected for the Cambridge LLM but also got onto the BCL.

Each course is assessed by different people and prioritises different things. 

As a side note: anyone applied for the DPhil? Any disappearing buttons yet?

Incase anyone is losing hope, I was waitlisted for the MLF and got accepted onto the BCL a few years back. My friend was rejected for the Cambridge LLM but also got onto the BCL.

Each course is assessed by different people and prioritises different things. 

As a side note: anyone applied for the DPhil? Any disappearing buttons yet?

Thank you everyone for your observations. Although not really hoping for a postive response i am finding a lot of solace in the kind words of the people in this thread. Thanks

Thank you everyone for your observations. Although not really hoping for a postive response i am finding a lot of solace in the kind words of the people in this thread. Thanks

Thank you for this - really interesting to note your observations!

On point 4, in the context of Oxford, the intake for BCL/MJur is 140/ ~661. This leads to an acceptance rate of ~21.8%. On the other hand, the intake for the MLF is 45/ ~409, meaning the acceptance rate is ~11%. If greater acceptance rates at Cambridge justify why those rejected for the BCL/MJur are being accepted there, then that logic does not apply for the MLF, right?

The limited point I want to make is that that the acceptance rate may not be the primary factor, but there are different independent criteria that the three programmes (i.e., BCL/ MJur, MLF, and LLM) employ for acceptance, leading to these results when applied to specific applicant profiles. I suppose this would also be consistent with your point 5.

Again, thanks for this!

Good Morning to my BCL/MJur applicants! Tomorrow starts a very tense week for us and I want to say I have found solace in this space. I've been reading the previous threads from 2018 to 2022 and here is what I gathered. 
1. Unlike Cambridge, Oxford hands out offers first,  then waitlists and rejections. I am personally not a fan of this as I feel the torture intensifies. 
2. The decision-making deadline for BCL was always the 16th of March, except for the "Covid years". 
3.There was an a strong correlation between button disappearances and receiving offers, except for 1 or 2 instances where the applicant's portal never changed. I am personally frustrated with the whole button saga so I have decided not to check it. Que sera sera, although quiero Oxford. 
4. A significant number of applicants who were unsuccessful in the BCL/MJur were successful in the Cambridge LLM and MLF. I believe this is because Cambridge has a 3% higher acceptance rate than Oxford. I noted this down because I saw several questions raised regarding this in our thread.
5. I found 3 people in total, from 2018-2022 who got rejected from the Cambridge LLM and MLF who got accepted into the BCL/MJur. Realistically speaking such occurrences are rare but not impossible. 
6. There are Facebook groups for BCL/MJur etc offer holders that open up on Facebook when decisions have been made. So keep an eye out for those. 
7. International offers were rolled out first in alphabetical order of the applicants' countries.  Then UK. 
8. Your applicant portal will not change even after you have been made an offer/waitlisted/unsuccessful. In emails we trust. 
9. If the need arises, the fastest way to contact Admissions office is by calling them, which in the previous threads was undertaken by UK applicants. 
10. Getting a rejection is not the end all be all of your dream to study at Oxford. I found countless instances where people had tried again in the following years and got in.

Hope this helped!

Thank you for this - really interesting to note your observations!

On point 4, in the context of Oxford, the intake for BCL/MJur is 140/ ~661. This leads to an acceptance rate of ~21.8%. On the other hand, the intake for the MLF is 45/ ~409, meaning the acceptance rate is ~11%. If greater acceptance rates at Cambridge justify why those rejected for the BCL/MJur are being accepted there, then that logic does not apply for the MLF, right?

The limited point I want to make is that that the acceptance rate may not be the primary factor, but there are different independent criteria that the three programmes (i.e., BCL/ MJur, MLF, and LLM) employ for acceptance, leading to these results when applied to specific applicant profiles. I suppose this would also be consistent with your point 5.

Again, thanks for this!

Thanks so much for fine tuning this! Did you also apply to Cambridge if you don't mind me asking?

Thank you for this - really interesting to note your observations!

On point 4, in the context of Oxford, the intake for BCL/MJur is 140/ ~661. This leads to an acceptance rate of ~21.8%. On the other hand, the intake for the MLF is 45/ ~409, meaning the acceptance rate is ~11%. If greater acceptance rates at Cambridge justify why those rejected for the BCL/MJur are being accepted there, then that logic does not apply for the MLF, right?

The limited point I want to make is that that the acceptance rate may not be the primary factor, but there are different independent criteria that the three programmes (i.e., BCL/ MJur, MLF, and LLM) employ for acceptance, leading to these results when applied to specific applicant profiles. I suppose this would also be consistent with your point 5.

Again, thanks for this!

A slight note on the intake/acceptance rate: I believe the acceptance rate for the BCL/MJur is somewhere in the region of ~13%, rather than ~21.8%, as Oxford's graduate admissions website seems to count applications for the BCL (average of 661 applications/year) and the MJur (average of 373 applications/year) separately.

Thank you for this - really interesting to note your observations!

On point 4, in the context of Oxford, the intake for BCL/MJur is 140/ ~661. This leads to an acceptance rate of ~21.8%. On the other hand, the intake for the MLF is 45/ ~409, meaning the acceptance rate is ~11%. If greater acceptance rates at Cambridge justify why those rejected for the BCL/MJur are being accepted there, then that logic does not apply for the MLF, right?

The limited point I want to make is that that the acceptance rate may not be the primary factor, but there are different independent criteria that the three programmes (i.e., BCL/ MJur, MLF, and LLM) employ for acceptance, leading to these results when applied to specific applicant profiles. I suppose this would also be consistent with your point 5.

Again, thanks for this!

A slight note on the intake/acceptance rate: I believe the acceptance rate for the BCL/MJur is somewhere in the region of ~13%, rather than ~21.8%, as Oxford's graduate admissions website seems to count applications for the BCL (average of 661 applications/year) and the MJur (average of 373 applications/year) separately.

Thank you for this - really interesting to note your observations!

On point 4, in the context of Oxford, the intake for BCL/MJur is 140/ ~661. This leads to an acceptance rate of ~21.8%. On the other hand, the intake for the MLF is 45/ ~409, meaning the acceptance rate is ~11%. If greater acceptance rates at Cambridge justify why those rejected for the BCL/MJur are being accepted there, then that logic does not apply for the MLF, right?

The limited point I want to make is that that the acceptance rate may not be the primary factor, but there are different independent criteria that the three programmes (i.e., BCL/ MJur, MLF, and LLM) employ for acceptance, leading to these results when applied to specific applicant profiles. I suppose this would also be consistent with your point 5.

Again, thanks for this!

Thanks so much for fine tuning this! Did you also apply to Cambridge if you don't mind me asking?

I applied only for the MLF. I'm targeting U.S. schools and the only University in the UK I considered was Oxford. I feel very lucky to have made it through! 

[Edited by LuckyBirdPoo on Mar 12, 2023]

Hi guys, did anyone who got accepted for MLF use a current or past MLF student as a referee for the application? Just curious.

[Edited by Okanich on Mar 12, 2023]

My warm congratulations to you! Will you ultimately choose Ox or pursue a US school? I am an international student. Applied to Ox and Cam. Panic-applied to Edinburgh, UCL and LSE during the Great Delay in moving past PAO in Cambridge, circa March 5th.

[Edited by giga_bot94 on Mar 12, 2023]

Hi guys, did anyone who got accepted for MLF use a current or past MLF student as a referee for the application? Just curious.

Hey MLF students, congratulations on recieving an offer! :-) Did you recieve funding decisions straight away alongside your offer? Just wondering about the timeline there since the website says "between late February and June" (MJur applicant here)

Thank you for this - really interesting to note your observations!

On point 4, in the context of Oxford, the intake for BCL/MJur is 140/ ~661. This leads to an acceptance rate of ~21.8%. On the other hand, the intake for the MLF is 45/ ~409, meaning the acceptance rate is ~11%. If greater acceptance rates at Cambridge justify why those rejected for the BCL/MJur are being accepted there, then that logic does not apply for the MLF, right?

The limited point I want to make is that that the acceptance rate may not be the primary factor, but there are different independent criteria that the three programmes (i.e., BCL/ MJur, MLF, and LLM) employ for acceptance, leading to these results when applied to specific applicant profiles. I suppose this would also be consistent with your point 5.

Again, thanks for this!

A slight note on the intake/acceptance rate: I believe the acceptance rate for the BCL/MJur is somewhere in the region of ~13%, rather than ~21.8%, as Oxford's graduate admissions website seems to count applications for the BCL (average of 661 applications/year) and the MJur (average of 373 applications/year) separately.

 Thanks so much for this! Are you applying for BCL/MJur?

The offer letter says that applications for MLF Financial Aid Award (upto GBP 10,000) is open only till March 23, 2023. For other oxford scholarship, it will be announced up till June as you have rightly pointed out.

Hey MLF students, congratulations on recieving an offer! :-) Did you recieve funding decisions straight away alongside your offer? Just wondering about the timeline there since the website says "between late February and June" (MJur applicant here)