Admissions facts and figures

	No. of Applicants	Shortlisted	Offered Places	Success Rate
History (Single Honours)	1053	721	287	27%
Ancient and Modern History	100	72	20	20%
History and Economics	119	63	17	10%
History and English	119	57	14	12%
History and Modern Languages	110	91	27	25%
History and Politics	427	185	53	12%
TOTAL	1979	1189	418	21%

The University’s preferred interview to place ratio is 3-1, so for every place available the History Faculty will interview 3 candidates.

Candidates are given scores and ranks at three different stages in the application process: at the shortlisting stage, immediately before the interviews, and after the interviews at the first college. The weightings of the different components used to score the applicants at each stage are outlined below.

Although the scores, individually and combined, provide a helpful framework for assessing candidates, tutors also take into account the individual circumstances and potential abilities of each candidate.

History (Single Honours)

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	History Aptitude Test (HAT)	History Written Work	History Interview
Shortlisting	50%	50%
Pre-Interview	40%	40%	20%
Post-Interview	30%	30%	10%	30%

Ancient and Modern History

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	HAT	History Written Work	History Interview	Classics Interview
Shortlisting	50%	50%
Pre-Interview	40%	40%	20%
Post-Interview	30%	30%	10%	15%	15%

History and Economics

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	HAT	TSA	History Written Work	History Interview	Economics Interview
Shortlisting	33.3%	33.3%	33.3%
Pre-Interview	40%	40%		20%
Post-Interview	20%	20%	20%	10%	15%	15%

History and English

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	HAT	English Written Work	History Written Work	History Interview	English Interview
Shortlisting	30%	40%	30%
Pre-Interview	30%	40%	30%
Post-Interview	20%	20%	20%	10%	15%	15%

History and Modern Languages

HML candidates are considered at each stage of the process through consultation between College tutors from both History and ML. All information about these candidates, for both subjects, - GCSE score, pre-interview test scores (HAT and MLAT), written work scores, interview times and scores - is entered into the Modern Languages Admissions Database (MLAD) by the College's ML Primary User (who is one of the ML tutors). This results in each candidate carrying a 'guide score' (school written work scores are not included in this calculation). Final admissions decisions may be informed by this score, but it is not used mechanistically as a ranking tool.

History and Politics

Application Stage	Contextualised GCSE score	HAT	History Written Work	History Interview	Politics Interview
Shortlisting	50%	50%
Pre-Interview	40%	40%	20%
Post-Interview	30%	30%	10%	15%	15%

The cGCSE score provides information about how well an applicant has performed at GCSE compared to other applicants to Oxford, given the performance of the school at which they took their GCSEs. It can be useful for identifying applicants from low performing schools who have achieved fewer top grades than other applicants, but more than would be expected for an average applicant from that school, and vice versa.

Admissions facts and figures

Applications Success Rate - 2019

Weighting of Test/GCSE scores

Contextualised GCSE 9/8/A* score (cGCSE)

2019 HAT Scores