[If you get in next year, how old will you be when you start your PhD?]

33. Hopefully a professor by 40.

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[how does Oxford notify applicants of a decision?]

I was accepted to the MPhil in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. It's a doctoral track program (two years MPhil, leading to two years DPhil - research degrees). I guess we'll know about potential funding when we get acceptance letters from individual colleges. Also, I am still waiting on Clarendon and Weidenfeld scholarship decisions, although I don't really expect to win those; I think only five Americans will get the Weidenfeld. FYI, I'm American, graduating this year from UCSB with a bachelors in sociocultural anthropology. Cheers.

[how does Oxford notify applicants of a decision?]

I got an acceptance letter from Oxford in the mail today!

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[Anthropology 2011]

I haven't heard a word yet. My friend was informally accepted to the Masters program in Archaeology. Her POI emailed her with congratulations, but she hasn't received an official letter.

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Wow. That's pretty cool! I haven't heard a thing yet . . .and I'm in Santa Barbara too!

It can be even more complicated than that. I applied for an Mst in Archaeology. I just heard yesterday (Jan 19th) via an email from a professor who congratulated me for my acceptance and went on to describe a course she taught that she thought would fit with my interests.

She prefaced the letter by saying, " I am writing to congratulate you on your acceptance to the Oxford Mst programme! If you haven't already, you should be receiving official notification very soon."

I know that the decisions were made for the first round of applicants on Jan. 14th but as of today, Jan. 20th, still nothing official via post.