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Not a problem. Thanks for the congratulations. I guess this one toss of the dice wasn't quite as mediocre as the rest of them.

I'm not Lawrence, you looked at last year's release! x3 I'm the only one studying a math course out of the 2015 cohort.

Mine came in on the 4th of the month (Exeter). I think that many of the staff have been on vacation in general over the past two week time frame. To those who asked previously, the funding I got personally was the Frost Scholarship. With a bit of Google-fu and that piece of information you can figure out my full name and everything.

You're doing good random internet bro/sis! It really is taking a serious chunk of time to get my college offer. Q~Q

Ah, I feel you. Sorry, I somehow totally misread "financial commitment" from the conventional meaning because of Oxford's (delightfully?) stilted application language. I was in the same boat while biting my nails waiting for news on the funding I was targeting. Even after pouring over the different options, I just couldn't get it to work out given their incredibly expensive international tuition rate. But man I was really prepared to be disappointed for exactly the same reason you're referencing. "How can you get into Oxford and then turn them down!" said a little voice in my head. The way I looked at it with all the numbers on the table, the amount in loans that I would have had to take out to make it work would have completely ruined any joy I got out of the experience in the first place. It could very well be a "good" investment in the raw financial sense. Your increased earnings over a lifetime might break just exactly even or put you ahead. But in reality, paying off that increased financial burden in the mean time will be a club over your head for years. Of course maybe your financial situation is substantially different! Those were my thoughts on it, though.

Hmm, struggling in what way? In any case, if your course offer is similar to mine you have until June or later to submit your financial committment. In terms of time it should be an ample gap between when the college gets back to you (hopefully soon? I'm still waiting as well) and when the committment is due.

In order: Twilight Sparkle, xD Technically it's a "University wide" scholarship, but it's specific to a particular region. I don't know that it would be proper etiquette to say specifically which one publicly until some time later- the sponsors did a press release last year. I read the email very carefully to make sure that it wasn't, though anybody who went to those kinds of lengths to prank me wouldn't be my friend for very long.

Well, it looks like this April 1st I'm the one who's the fool. I received a scholarship offer today which will cover everything. http://i.imgur.com/vwMin.gif

The update is appreciated. I wasn't exactly holding my breath for a Clarendon (as indicated earlier in the thread), but it seems that they've informed everybody from the MFoCS who got one already by what you received. True to the forum heading, I'm still waiting it out for the results of the main funding opportunity I'm targeting. The time window is supposed to be "early April", so it's getting into crazy time. It'd be too much to ask, I suppose, for them to have it done by Wednesday.

Hey.

Thanks for the answer, and forgive me for not saying earlier- congratulations on being offered a Clarendon. I suppose there's theoretically "hope" still alive for other departments and divisions, then. I'm not particularly holding out for getting a Calrendon either way, though. The odds on it are just astronomical, even presuming (my cynical side says incorrectly) that I'm even in the most competitive cohort. I rather wonder whether they prioritize DPhil applicants over Masters degrees anyways.

That's certainly interesting news. Was it a raw Clarendon offer, or was it a communication from the MPLS division or CS Department? From Oxford's description, if you received the offer from the Clarendon fund directly there's a possibility that the whole MPLS division has already reported their first round of nominees. Ref: http://www.ox.ac.uk/clarendon/information-for-applicants/allocation-of-awards

(Math & Foundations of CS) Not so much on the college front, no. Of course the real waiting game is the funding waiting game. I'm stuck biting my nails until an April announcement in my particular case.