Cambridge MPhil Real Estate Finance

Hanshen, did you get rejected from REF? Can you please let us know your profile. Bizzle are you currently on the course? If you are do you know approximately what percentage of students have a 2.1? Can you also elaborate on your profile a little - thanks.

hello all,

i have submitted my MPhil Land Econ REF application in end of september...i still haven't heard anything back from them, it is almost mid-march..

am i pretty much toast? so many people have their conditional already..

need some counseling here, will they hate me if i called BOGS about my application?

thanks all. just so anxious

... so many people have their conditional already..

I think a lot of people start to get offers from end of march/april. what is your profile mate?

I got an offer this year so I don't know. I do have some finance experience which probably helped my application.

... and I have received expiring offers from other Universities.

The system automatically gives you a deadline to accept but if you require an extension, or even miss the deadline – just drop me an email. (The reason we have this deadline is simply to have an idea of the people who are seriously considering enrolling, and it is not a "contract." If you are serious about coming, then simply "accept" and if for one reason or another you cannot make it, just email to let us know - we will fully understand.)

Unfortunately, Cass wants a 2000 pound deposit by April 2 and it's non-refundable. Not to mention, my offer got lost in cyberspace and I only found out about my offer 2 days ago. They won't give me an extension to make my decision in light of my offer getting lost so I have less than 2 weeks to make a decision and fork over 2000 pounds.

by this year ure referring to an actual offer for 2012/13? if so, congrats! i really hope there are replies for the rest of us in the next few weeks....

for lse offer holders. just to double check, there arent any expiration dates for offers right? not till end july at least. and no need for deposits too... these guys are pretty humane surprisingly

Oh, this is a problem.
I guess you will have to wait until April 2, and then make a decision.
If you have not heard back from Cambridge, and there is no status change (status change to "under consideration of BoGS" is as good as having an offer), and if you can not get a definitive answer (or at least indicative answer) from them, then you will have no choice but to gamble. If you are not sure about your Cambridge chances - pay the deposit. If Cambridge does accept you after all, you will have to decide whether 2000 pounds is worth switching from Cass to Cambridge (in my opinion it is, but you may disagree, of course).

Good luck in any case. I think you might get something from Cambridge in the next two weeks, but there is no guarantee, of course.

I wrote to the department to see where they might be with my application and this is what I got back:

Dear Candidate
Your application was received into our worklists electronically from the Board of Graduate Studies on the 15th March. We are currently experiencing very high volumes of applications for this course and you are not likely to receive any decision until late April /early May due to the heavy workload of the academic staff and the Board of Graduate Studies.
Kind Regards
Glynis Norwood

I thought this information may be useful to some folks.

Hello, I have recently applied to the Mphil in Real Estate Finance at Cambridge, and my application is currently sitting on "Awaiting decision by the Board of Graduate Studies" does anyone know what my chances are? I understand the graduate board next meet on the 10th so I’ll have to wait till then but I wanted to gain a rough idea of my chances.

Also, to those who have also applied/got offers what colleges have you applied for? Do any of the colleges have large numbers of REF students?

Thanks