One, possibly apocyrphal, story has it that an applicant to Harvard or Princeton dealt with this open-ended question this way:

Question:  “Do you play the tuba?”

Answer:  “No.”

Apparently Oxbridge applicants are asked even crazier questions:

What would you do if you were a magpie?

Why don’t we fire all the politicians and let the managers of IKEA run the country?

How would you poison someone without the police finding out about it?

Thankfully none of my clients is applying to Oxford or Cambridge.  This year, anyway.

Check out the CNN story here: Admission questions to Oxford, Cambridge called ‘out there’ – CNN.com

Mark Montgomery
College Counselor

The post Wacky College Application Questions for Admission to Oxford, Cambridge first appeared on College Admission Counseling.