The Official Cambridge Winter Pool 2013 Thread (includes FAQ and Status Reports)

I don't have much to add to the answer someone posted earlier, except to say that people are often a bit disconcerted to be pooled to a women only college, but the general experience seems to be that it turns out very well in the end, assuming an offer is made. Transferring between colleges is exceptionally rare; my understanding is that in general terms the university strongly discourages it, so you would be looking at some significant reason for that to be allowed.

Your daughter should go to the interview with an open mind - she is likely to find that the college concerned appeals to her much more than she expects.

I know there have been threads about this issue before - try the Cambridge Colleges forum, here.

They did not fish lot of PBS applicants today, right? That means we still have some hope! Either that or PBS fished people are keeping it a secret

Good luck to everyone still swimming and congratulations to every rescued fish

Has anyone been fished for Linguistics yet? Or know of anyone who has?
Thank you

There are far far more candidates who have the potential to do well at Cambridge than there are places for them, so there is a need to look across all applications and benchmark them in some way, which is what the pre Christmas meetings do, and the Pool process continues this, for candidates who could go either way. Colleges do look for slightly different things - you wouldn't have the variation in practice around admissions tests, for instance, if they didn't - so it's not necessarily a case of Emma palming off on Girton people who are good but not top-flight (by Cambridge standards, of course).

In the end, as almost anyone in this thread would tell us, going to a different college from the one you had in mind at the beginning of this exercise is not the end of the world.

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I personally think that this is a really insensitive question to ask on this thread when the majority are desperate for an offer and lot of us still are.

I got pooled from St Catharines College for economics and just got fished by Murray Edwards.

Minerva- How much contact have admissions tutors had with applicants on the Sunday after the pool? *In the past few years

wait, so realistically is it unlikely we'll be fished if we haven't heard by tomorrow (later today) ?

I know officially the cut off date isn't till later, but if the decisions were made during the pool process at cambridge I don't understand why we wouldn't be notified straight away (excluding those requiring re interview of course)

Girton, if you didn't already see! Thanks, I'll probably need it. It's one half hour interview and I don't really know what to expect.

I have a plan. If we all donate we can raise funds and build a new college to make room for all us pooled applicants!

As far as I've noticed, no. Only one so far.
I just have no idea what's coming next for all of us poolees.
And then tomorrow, when I wake up, check this thread, a lot will be fished out and still me hanging here. Oh that scenario... Just kill me.

Yeah only one so far on TSR. Hopefully, it will also turn out that a disproportionate number of PBS applicants fished will be fellow TSRians!
Which college were you pooled from?

YES i have just got in from a night out and YES the first thing I did was check the emails...(i think i must be insane!!) still nothing..... anyone heard from bionatsci? Xx

I'll be wishing for Girton to fish you, fellow ex-Pembrokian
We can turn the Pembroke crew into the ex-Pembroke pooled to Girton crew

Hey I'm reasonably confident that very few people have heard for nat sci

Especially so for everyone on TSR, and also from everyone I know who applied (not very representative :P)

I have a feeling they'll start coming through tomorrow!
Good luck


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