NATURAL SCIENCES, who's doing it, who wants to it

Thanks. To apply to the Cambridge course, do you have to do any aptitude tests in advance (i.e. before you apply) or can you just apply with only GCSEs and AS levels? Sorry about the questions, I don't know much about Uni applications.

Not to my knowledge; I don't know enough about applications either!

This thread does not seem very active, is this course not popular?

I believe it is a popular course- there just don't seem to be many TSR-ers posting about NatSci in comparison to say more vocational subjects like VetMed...

Hello,

I'm curious to know people who are wishing to do/are doing the Natural Sciences course and where. I hear it is a very popular course, yet I have not come across anyone who likes it!

I'm applying this year, or probably next year. So how come you decided NatSci, and where are you applying?

Do you not mean 'professional'? I thought vocational meant, like, business or politics.

This thread does not seem very active, is this course not popular?

That's good news, cheers.
BTW does anyone know what you need to have at GCSE to do this course at Cambridge? I know that officially they probably say that you only need C grades in English and Maths but what grades would you need to make a worthwhile application, assuming AS results are acceptable?

just signed up to tsr!
i definitely want to study natural sciences and have done for a while!
it's surprising how few replies there are on this post! i thought it was a really popular course!

Will anyone be doing Natural Sciences at Cambridge?

That's good news, cheers.
BTW does anyone know what you need to have at GCSE to do this course at Cambridge? I know that officially they probably say that you only need C grades in English and Maths but what grades would you need to make a worthwhile application, assuming AS results are acceptable?

Hello,

I'm curious to know people who are wishing to do/are doing the Natural Sciences course and where. I hear it is a very popular course, yet I have not come across anyone who likes it!

I'm applying this year, or probably next year. So how come you decided NatSci, and where are you applying?

just signed up to tsr!
i definitely want to study natural sciences and have done for a while!
it's surprising how few replies there are on this post! i thought it was a really popular course!

I know, same! I am fairly new as well.

There's actually an official Cambridge NatSci thread. You'll probably get more feedback there. In terms of GCSEs, Cambridge are supposedly less anal than Oxford. However, speaking to other successful applicants I'd say most have at least 8A*s. AS ums is probably a more important consideration; at a physics summer school last year an admissions tutor said that the average successful applicant had ~96% in their most relevant three ASes.

I also wouldn't worry about it not being a popular course. In terms of undergraduate numbers, Natural Sciences is the most popular course in Cambridge.

Thanks for the link. Does anyone know whether the admissions tutor looks at GCSE grades before AS UMS scores or the other way round? Would they disregard an otherwise perfect application instantly if they saw low GCSE grades?

Well, I'll jump on this bandwagon applying for physNatSci at Churchill college Cambridge

Thanks for the link. Does anyone know whether the admissions tutor looks at GCSE grades before AS UMS scores or the other way round? Would they disregard an otherwise perfect application instantly if they saw low GCSE grades?

Do you mind me asking what GCSE grades and AS UMS scores you got?
I am not applying for another year and am just curious...