{"id":6747,"date":"2025-09-26T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:31:12","slug":"visit-to-forest-school-oxford-university-admissions-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/2025\/09\/26\/visit-to-forest-school-oxford-university-admissions-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Forest School &#8211; Oxford University Admissions Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 15<sup>th<\/sup> September, a small group of Year 12 students visited Forest School, Snaresbrook, where an insightful talk was delivered by the University of Oxford\u2019s Admissions Team about what makes a stand-out University application. Students were spoken to about life at Oxford, the competitive application process and what makes a high-quality application. Here is what our students had to say about the visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe&nbsp;Oxford&nbsp;trip was incredibly informative and interesting, outlining features of its colleges and how they differ from normal universities. I learnt many things such as the application process and what life is like as an&nbsp;Oxford&nbsp;University student. I also learnt how to prepare myself for admittance exams and interviews, for example engaging in super-curricular activities like watching subject related lectures, documentaries and wider reading. Overall, the&nbsp;Oxford&nbsp;trip was extremely useful and helped motivate me to take responsibility for my own learning and strive to reach a top university.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>James Mulligan \u2013 12PL<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI found the trip to Forest School a valuable use of time as Ms Glover and her partner provided us with critical insights into what makes a standout application, as well as the mistakes to avoid. To single out what I found to be the most useful insight from the presentation was the importance of completing super-curricular activities, as it enables students to stand out from the average applicant.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kaysan Ahmed \u2013 12HA<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 15th September, a small group of Year 12 students visited Forest School, Snaresbrook, where an insightful talk was delivered by the University of Oxford\u2019s Admissions Team about what makes a stand-out University application. Students were spoken to about life at Oxford, the competitive application process and what makes a high-quality application. Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Students.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6749,"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions\/6749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bealhighschool.co.uk\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}