You will be sent the appropriate forms together with a list of this year's courses and the Graduate Studies Prospectus. I shall however make various unofficial comments. Clearly the lunatics have taken over the asylum . Expenses These are detailed near the beginning of the Prospectus. I could spend many pages describing how the University Composition Fee and the College Fee are arrived at, but you should simply grit your teeth and add these together to find the total fee payable.
Most Graduate courses have a cut-off date for applications.
If your application arrives later than 31 March, the Departments will still use the same criteria in deciding your case but the business of finding a College place may take much longer and your chances of College help with housing will be substantially reduced. Choice of College Colleges differ in age, beauty, friendliness, access to playing fields, wealth, housing policies and many other ways. You are therefore asked to select a College of first preference and allowed to list up to two further colleges in order of preference. Although the pooling system means that almost everybody who is accepted by the Departments will eventually be taken by some college, rejection by your preferred college can lead to long delays before this happens. The new Prospectus contains a table in Chapter 6 which shows statistics of applications and student numbers for all the colleges.