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Peterhouse (Cambridge) Students and Applicants

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Reply 1980

winj96

anyway i'm off too :wavey:

University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Reply 1981

Craghyrax

? Erm... ok. Bye :hello:

Reply 1982

afoneleri

winj96

why have they got rid of the essay? i felt it was a really good idea, and i was really proud of mine.

They haven't as far as I know. But if you apply to a different college and get pooled, they don't ask you to write one after that.

Reply 1983

winj96

its just on the cambridge admissions website it no longer mentions the essay, under admissions tests and essays.

Reply 1984

Craghyrax

They asked me to submit three school essays :hmmmm:

I only had two from E.Lit (I did Chem and Bio), and I ended up having to write one specially.

Reply 1985

talkativeme

Captain Crash

As for essay length, they're usually about 3/4 sides of A4 (although some people in my year wrote exaustive essays of >10 pages sometimes :mad:

) so its not too much effort to write. And when you consider the diagrams you have to put in, its sometimes quicker to hand write them...

Well that doesn't seem all that bad. At least if you mean 3/4 sides of A4 in handwriting. And that's definitely true about the diagrams.. last year I had to hand in this pain in the ass internal assessment for maths (afoneleri, you know what I'm talking about since you did the IB too if I remember correctly) and it was like ten pages filled with diagrams done on the computer with this ancient calculator software. Man did that take time and energy! Anyways, what else do you do for assignments in medicine? I'm assuming lots of reading and then the essays of course, but besides that?

Reply 1986

Craghyrax

Oooh! I had an interview here ;yes; Fingers crossed I get it! :afraid:

Reply 1987

Captain Crash

talkativeme

Anyways, what else do you do for assignments in medicine? I'm assuming lots of reading and then the essays of course, but besides that?

You'll probably get given some maths questions to do in Biochemistry in lieu of essays. Reading of course is advisable but voluntary for your practicals and dissections. Actually in terms of set work there's not a lot - its being able to remember the sheer amount of info come exam time that the hard part....

Reply 1988

talkativeme

Nice! Hope you get it! Richenda, are you lurking around TSR trying to get the 2000th post? :p:

Reply 1989

talkativeme

Captain Crash

Actually in terms of set work there's not a lot - its being able to remember the sheer amount of info come exam time that the hard part....

I would image so :s-smilie:

Reply 1990

Craghyrax

talkativeme

Nice! Hope you get it!

Thanks

talkativeme

Richenda, are you lurking around TSR trying to get the 2000th post? :p:

Nope. I'm lurking on TSR because I live here :ninja:

Sad but true :s-smilie:

On Sunday night I couldn't sleep at all :banghead:

I gave up in the end.. but it ended up on me spending something stupid like 30 almost unbroken hours on here :hmmmm:

Reply 1993

happy cola

Is it true that Peterhouse are more accomodating of those of us CSAS cases with shaky academic records (albeit with a thankfully drastic upward curve now!)? I'm just curious as if so then this attitude, in my view, reflects wonderfully on the college.

Reply 1994

talkativeme

Craghyrax

Sad but true :s-smilie:

On Sunday night I couldn't sleep at all :banghead:

I gave up in the end.. but it ended up on me spending something stupid like 30 almost unbroken hours on here :hmmmm:

OMG, that must be some sort of a record! Hurry up and snatch the 2000th post, I'm thinking, you're worth it :wink:

Reply 1995

Craghyrax

happy cola

I haven't a cooking clue. But if that is so, then it does explain why I got in on AAC.. :ninja:

(IGCSEs: A,B,B,B,B,C,D) So possibly :dontknow:

Reply 1996

Craghyrax

talkativeme

OMG, that must be some sort of a record! Hurry up and snatch the 2000th post, I'm thinking, you're worth it :wink:

Why thankyou :girl:

WE DID IT!!! :dancing:

We are so the best college on TSR!!! :biggrin:

Reply 1997

winj96

well technically mine is the first post of the new millenium.. i can live with that :party:

ohh that looks like a cool job btw...

How are you?

gd thanks, but annoyed with my mum for not accepting i'm not 12 any more... working hard at M&S - someone complimented the manager about me today :hubba: