Interview Insights

Here's our database of first-hand student interview experiences. You can also watch students talk about other aspects of university in our student videos.

Engineering

Downing (2015)

Each interview was split into two halves, with one for each interviewer. Some interviewers had one …

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Engineering

Downing (2015)

Each interview was split into two halves, with one for each interviewer. Some interviewers had one …

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Human, Social and Political Science

Sidney Sussex (2016)

The general interview discussed my personal statement and then digressed from there. It felt very c…

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Engineering

Christ's (2015)

In the first interview started about my motivations for engineering and about what I liked and disl…

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Engineering

Christ's (2015)

Interview 1: Talk about what motivations to study engineering. The interview was with the 2 directo…

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Human, Social and Political Science

Clare (2014)

The first interview was with one politics professor. I was surprised that she didn't ask me about t…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.