Ask an Admissions Tutor IX, 4th August - 2nd September

Is that due to high competition/strict selectiveness or because of a lack of applications? Would you recommend applying for the affiliated BA at Christ's or is it better to apply to a graduate college for this course?*

Hello an thanks for your questions. We won't be asking for Raw Marks from reformed A an AS Levels for 2017 entry. Schools will be at liberty to discuss them in their references but we won't be collecting them in the SAQ for application purposes. We will look at all parts of the application, for different people different aspects will turn out to be more or less important. We aren't going to be rigid or mechanistic about it.

Oxfordd for Medicine do place a lot of emphasis on the percentage of A*s at GCSE when deciding on interviews. 10A*s and 3 As is a very strong performance, not being at Oxford I can't comment on how that compares with other Oxford applicants but it would certainly be regarded as strong at Cambridge - not at the absolute top on that aspect perhaps but certainly not unlike the profile of many successful applicants.

I hope that helps. Good luck!

We won't be asking for Raw Marks from reformed A an AS Levels for 2017 entry. Schools will be at liberty to discuss them in their references but we won't be collecting them in the SAQ for application purposes.

Ah, that's the SAQ decision confirmed now?

For this year, yes.

I got biology b chemistry b mathematics b are these considered good enough as levels to try and apply for Cambridge

Nope

Nope

Why dont u re-read the thread title and let the admissions tutor reply.

Hello Admissions Tutor!

I slightly missed my grade requirements (A*AB rather than A*AA, due to a very unexpected exam result in history) but my college accepted me anyway. It might sound like a silly question, but there's no chance they made a mistake, right? Would it have been the other parts of my application (my A* in EPQ, my interviews, my personal statement) that made the difference?

I'm just paranoid that they accidentally slipped somehow and pressed some kind of 'confirm' button by mistake. You can't take back a confirmation once you've made it, right?

Hello Admissions Tutor!

I slightly missed my grade requirements (A*AB rather than A*AA, due to a very unexpected exam result in history) but my college accepted me anyway. It might sound like a silly question, but there's no chance they made a mistake, right? Would it have been the other parts of my application (my A* in EPQ, my interviews, my personal statement) that made the difference?

I'm just paranoid that they accidentally slipped somehow and pressed some kind of 'confirm' button by mistake. You can't take back a confirmation once you've made it, right?

Hello an thanks for your questions. Law is very much an open access subject and students present with all sorts of different A Level combinations. Those you suggest are all good ones and will work well in Law. We have no preferences for particular combinations at Christ's. We want to see evidence of a legal train f thought and we want to know that you can write.

It's fine to drop a subject after AS, before the changes to A Level about half of all successful applicants for non-Science subjects had 3 A Levels and the other half had 4. I wouldn't recommend dropping History as it is what we call a keystone subject for Humanities (one of a few subjects which are most common in the profiles of successful applicants to Russell Group universities for Humanities subjects.

Read the Law pages of the quality newspapers, rea and think about political ad news issues from a legal perspective. Maybe download some lectures on law from iTunesU. Finally, Law calls for clear, logical thinking so practice your logical reasoning. Best of luck.