[The Mr Z]

(Original post by salsharifi)
Thanks for the advice. I'm planning on applying for medicine, hence my interest in Churchill college. I haven't really looked at the locations of the colleges properly, but I will do in time and when I go to visit Cam I'll get a better feel for them too

I didn't know Churchill was at all strong for medicine. It's in fact on the complete wrong side of town for medics, it's almost as far away from Addenbrookes Hospital as you can get! (Well, except Girton!)

[dornam]

How would a STEP degree help me if I applied for medicine?


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[The Mr Z]

(Original post by wasting-time)
This may be slightly random but how right-wing would you say Peterhouse is? I'm off to study NatSci there in October (grades providing) and I'm slightly concerned I'm gonna be really out of place coming from a working class (aka poor) background with a very left-wing outlook :/

As always the majority of people are apathetic and politics wont play much of a role in your time there if you don't want it to. There are a lot of left-wing people around Cambridge as a whole so if you want you can get out of college for that sort of thing. It shouldn't worry you too much.

Peterhouse is one of the most right-wing colleges in Cambridge, it normally has one of the lowest maintained/private ratios, been averaging about 54% over the last 5 years (though last year had a blip when it went up to 73% - this is mainly because it's a very small college, with only about 50 student intake it only takes a handful more maintained pupils to cause that change) Of course maybe this is a dramatic change that will continue.

Its reputation is for being public-school dominated, you'll probably find of the privately educated students a higher proportion went to public schools and of the state schooled pupils a higher proportion went to grammars. Unfortunately there's no information available on what that breakdown actually is.

Your main problem will be the size - in larger colleges there are pockets of every type of person and so it's easier to find a group you fit with.

[The Mr Z]

(Original post by dornam)
How would a STEP degree help me if I applied for medicine?


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Not at all, STEP is an entrance paper taken by pure mathematicians, nothing on it is in the slightest relevant to a medicine application.

(Original post by alexbumpoo)
good thing i wanna do maths
i didnt get A* in f maths, problem or not?

How far off the A* were you?

[alexbumpoo]

(Original post by The Mr Z)
Not at all, STEP is an entrance paper taken by pure mathematicians, nothing on it is in the slightest relevant to a medicine application.



How far off the A* were you?

in my best 3 i got 87 87 88 so quite close
i got a D in As chemistry does that matter

[The Mr Z]

(Original post by alexbumpoo)
in my best 3 i got 87 87 88 so quite close
i got a D in As chemistry does that matter

That's close enough that you should be ok, you'll get an interview and if you do well there an offer. Maths hands out many more offers because they require STEP, a lot of people don't make the STEP offer.

A D is non-ideal but it's in a pretty irrelevant 4th subject so you should be ok, they won't look at more than 3 most relevant for maths.

[alexbumpoo]

(Original post by The Mr Z)
That's close enough that you should be ok, you'll get an interview and if you do well there an offer. Maths hands out many more offers because they require STEP, a lot of people don't make the STEP offer.

A D is non-ideal but it's in a pretty irrelevant 4th subject so you should be ok, they won't look at more than 3 most relevant for maths.

oh okay thanks i thought the D would stop me getting in

[frogs r everywhere]

(Original post by alexbumpoo)
wait what do you mean in terms of AS i meant i have already finished A level and got A*A*A

Ah, my fault! I though you were PREDICTED an A*A*A. They will look at your UMS you give them on the SAQ, however, having finished your A2s, it does give you an advantage especially with strong results like yours. I dont know if maths works the same but for most courses they have a cut off for automatic pooling if your original college is unusually oversuscribed. I think its 93UMS if you're doing AS's or 2 or3 (I believe its 3) A*'s if you finished your A2's.

[dornam]

I asked it earlier but I didn't get a concludent answer. I will apply for Medicine, 2013 entry. I am from Romania so I won't be sitting the GCSEs. The International Baccalaureat here in Romania is not worth 2 cents, trust me. I will take the BMAT on 7th of November 2012 and also the CAE and TOEFL Internet-based language test. I was thinking of sitting the SATs in physics, maths, chemistry. Would this represent an advantage in my application?


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[iCiaran]

5 hours later in a minibus, and I'm finally at Cambridge

[bluebird13]

Could someone please please help me answer question 6 of this past BMAT exam paper... would be very much appreciated. The answer is A but I don't quite get the same answer. Thank you so very much!

http://www.admissionstests.cambridge..._Section_2.pdf

[Aeger]

(Original post by iCiaran)
Maybe I haven't planned enough, just got a rough idea of what colleges I want to see, along with visiting the CompSci department tomorrow and hopefully there being someone there to talk to xD

I'm getting there tomorrow and leave at 2 on thursday which is kind of awkward since nothing really seems to kick off til thursday afternoon xD

And punting, just for the lolz



What college are you staying overnight at?



Is anyone else staying at Selwyn tomorrow night?

I've just stayed over at Churchill, but it isn't a college I'm looking at applying for. I'm definitely going to visit Trinity, Kings, Clare, Gonville and Caius and Emma today. They're my favourites.

[Phredd]

(Original post by bluebird13)
Could someone please please help me answer question 6 of this past BMAT exam paper... would be very much appreciated. The answer is A but I don't quite get the same answer. Thank you so very much!

http://www.admissionstests.cambridge..._Section_2.pdf

original equation:



divide both sides by



square both sides



multiply both sides by



divide both sides by



then take away from both sides



hope you followed that

[bluebird13]

(Original post by Phredd)
original equation:



divide both sides by



square both sides



multiply both sides by



divide both sides by



then take away from both sides



hope you followed that

ha yeah thank you, i'm applying to vet school as a graduate so haven't done maths in about a decade! I was moving the square root straight over to 't' as my first move, and didn't realise you could 'cross multiply' like that. Its all slowly coming back!

[Florence321]

(Original post by Somethingundecided)
Hi, I went to that masterclass. I didn't have a clue what her entire lecture was about, please please please could you explain it to me? I think she was trying to make links between the people she mentioned, like Yuri Dolgorukii, Putin, Boris Yeltsin and Godunov and Yuri Luschkov but I still don't understand what those links were. And the questions she asked at the end, like "Can you draw parallels with what I've talked about and England" and "Why do you think that so many Russians would know who Yuri Dolgorukii is?", what were the eventual answers in the end? Aah I'm still trying to get my head round it :/ (sorry, I'm asking you haha because you seem to have a good idea of what was going on)

Are you applying for Russian, since you knew the song she played?



Omg I know, I really liked the linguistics lecture too (was it just me or was the russian one really difficult to understand?), I love the Q&A at the end where he was like "If I talked like a young girl people would be disturbed", I couldn't stop laughing haha.

Yeah, it seemed like some prior knowledge of Russian history would have been helpful! Despite my history GCSE coursework on Stalin's Russia I didn't have much prior knowledge haha.

He was pretty funny! A really interesting talk

[ke95]

Does anyone know if it's possible to do a course at a different university (e.g. Durham) for 3 years and then go to Cambridge to do a masters/phd? Thanks

[Phredd]

(Original post by ke95)
Does anyone know if it's possible to do a course at a different university (e.g. Durham) for 3 years and then go to Cambridge to do a masters/phd? Thanks

Yes that it quite common.

[Etoile]

(Original post by Florence321)
Yeah, it seemed like some prior knowledge of Russian history would have been helpful! Despite my history GCSE coursework on Stalin's Russia I didn't have much prior knowledge haha.

He was pretty funny! A really interesting talk

I didn't do GCSE history but now I am reading "A Concise History of Russia", which is not so concise, because it is since the 9th century.






Also, I am in love with the MML library. I went around it today with my face a combination of and in raptures of joy haha! That German collection

[frogs r everywhere]

(Original post by dornam)
I asked it earlier but I didn't get a concludent answer. I will apply for Medicine, 2013 entry. I am from Romania so I won't be sitting the GCSEs. The International Baccalaureat here in Romania is not worth 2 cents, trust me. I will take the BMAT on 7th of November 2012 and also the CAE and TOEFL Internet-based language test. I was thinking of sitting the SATs in physics, maths, chemistry. Would this represent an advantage in my application?


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Hello. I will try my best to answer your query.

Your IB qualification is internationally recognised. Your international school in romania should be authorised to make you sit exams which are the same kind of difficulty relative to your age. So, I don't know if you will be at any advantage, but that is just my opinion. If you really think that a romanian IB is looked down upon then, yes, I would reconsider. But, from the own understanding, Cambridge will not reject you on the basis on the qualifications your school offers. For example, if your school only offers romanian IB, then cambridge would put your application into context (These are just my personal views and do not represent any associations with the university)

Good luck!

[amg_22]

at the open day today the admission tutor for economics said that students with ~90% ums average are very likely to get an offer. my question is - is this actually true? i thought 90% was regarded as the minimum needed and to have a good chance of an offer something like 95% was needed