Cambridge Economics Students and Applicants

Just wondering...

Do you study anything about networks during undergraduate studies at Cambridge?

There's an optional paper in Part IIB (third year) called "Economic Theory and Analysis" (Paper 4) which has a module on networks. I took this paper and it was really interesting.

sounds good!

what kind of things did you learn about?

i'm talking about networks on my additional PS for the SAQ with focus on public policy, is this a good idea?

It's very theoretical - quite a lot of it is mathematical proofs.


I have no idea - I don't think I wrote any economics content in my additional PS.

oh right what did you talk about?

Not much - just general stuff about the college and Cambridge (I had visited Pembroke at a college open day before so mainly about that). To be honest I don't think it matters that much.

Not much - just general stuff about the college and Cambridge (I had visited Pembroke at a college open day before so mainly about that). To be honest I don't think it matters that much.

really? someone on TSR told me if you write anything about the college it gets changed to 'University of Cambridge' because of something to do about open applications

i guess he was trolling then

really? someone on TSR told me if you write anything about the college it gets changed to 'University of Cambridge' because of something to do about open applications

i guess he was trolling then

Does anybody know whether Cambridge will consider which exam board applicants have used for AS Levels? For example, my school use OCR for maths, which (I am told) is harder than some other boards (which begs the question, why use this exam board in the first place?...), whereas for Economics we use AQA, which makes scoring high UMS fairly straightforward. Given that UMS marks are pretty key for Cambridge, will this be taken into account? Thanks in advance.

Or maybe it's a recent change given that Alex applied 4 years ago and has now since graduated

No they don't care. Students have no choice in what exam boards their school takes and the difference in difficulty between exam boards is debatable to say the least.

I imagined this would be the case. Although, when they are asking for details such as class size on the SAQ, it does show that they are interested in the minutiae of an application.

Does anybody know whether Cambridge will consider which exam board applicants have used for AS Levels? For example, my school use OCR for maths, which (I am told) is harder than some other boards (which begs the question, why use this exam board in the first place?...), whereas for Economics we use AQA, which makes scoring high UMS fairly straightforward. Given that UMS marks are pretty key for Cambridge, will this be taken into account? Thanks in advance.