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2024 general essay questions for Oxford 'All Souls' scholarship [pdf]

by thundergolfer on 1/22/25, 3:27 PM with 15 comments

  • by woleium on 1/22/25, 4:14 PM

    For those who are not familiar All Souls is for the best of the best of the best. Unlike other Oxford colleges, it has no undergraduate students and consists entirely of fellows who automatically become members of the college’s governing body.

    It is an academic research institution, focusing on humanities, social sciences, and theoretical sciences. It maintains approximately 80 fellows, selected through various fellowship categories.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls_College,_Oxford

  • by dailydetour123 on 1/22/25, 3:45 PM

    Fun to see the questions, but I would love even more to read the essays they got along with the mark scheme/examiner's comments.

    What is they are looking for? And what in their eyes makes a good answer? That would be interesting for me to see and helpful in terms of developing my own thinking.

  • by arminiusreturns on 1/22/25, 4:16 PM

    All Souls is the college of the elite circle of the Rhodesian network that is a central node origin of the round table group whos intention was the reconquest of America. I consider them the enemy.

    "To and for the establishment, promotion, and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands wherein the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour, and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire."

  • by einpoklum on 1/22/25, 3:44 PM

    So, in order to get that scholarship, you need to write 3 or 6 essays on quips of their choice? Hmm. I don't even the people who need to read the endless stream of generic verbiage.

  • by NullHypothesist on 1/22/25, 3:36 PM

    Some great conversation-starters here! Saving this for a future dinner party...

  • by cbfrench on 1/22/25, 4:14 PM

    >15. Defend minimalism.

    “No.”