So for those of us in Year 12 now (or mature students planning on applying for the next academic year of 2015) who want to apply to Cambridge for any course.
Perhaps but...
Course: College: GCSEs: A Level Subjects: Anything else relevant:
For me:
Course: Physical Natural Sciences College: Christ's GCSEs: 8 A*s, 6 As, B and a C
AS: Biology AS - A - 276/300 Chemistry AS - A - 288/300 Physics AS - A - 286/300 French AS - A - 188/200 History AS - B - 159/200
A2: Maths A2 - A* - 554/600
A Level Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, French, Further Maths.
Other: Pass in Welsh Baccalaureate
Reading books, olympiads, did Cambridge and Oxford science essay comps
EDITED 4/10: So far, we have 364 potential applicants on this thread: 3 for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic; 9 for Architecture, 15 Chemical Engineering applicants, 1 for Classics, 11 for Computer Science, 27 for Economics, 2 for Education, 1 for Education with Biology, 1 for Education with MML, 16 for Engineering, 25 for English, 6 for Geography, 13 for History, 2 for History of Art, 14 for HSPS, 2 for Land Economy, 16 for Law, 3 for Linguistics, 33 for Maths (a couple of those considering PhysNatSci too), 6 for Maths with Physics, 49 for Medicine, 12 for MML, 2 for MML/AMES, 4 for Music, 6 for PBS, 3 for Philosophy, 77 for NatSci (20 Bio, 49 Phys, 8 unknown), 3 for Theology and 2 for Veterinary Medicine.
(We now have students from every undergraduate course except straight AMES! Please post your details if you're a prospective applicant.)
List of potential applicants on this thread:
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Myself:
Course: English College: Emma GCSEs: 9A*, A in FSMQ
AS levels: AAAAA, 97.8% average from top 3 English Literature: 176/200 Philosophy: 193/200 Psychology: 196/200 Maths: 297/300 Biology: 281/300 (dropping)
Anything else relevant: Reading, essay competitions, lots of creative writing, Foyle Young Poet, relevant w/e, debating club
Course: English College: Emma looks beautiful, but I'm going to look around some more in the summer GCSEs: 9A* Anything else relevant: I have read about three books. I am so screwed. Though I'm a published poet, so that might count in my favour Doing Eng Lit, Philosophy, Biology, Maths and Psychology at AS.
Course: Pure mathematics College: Noo idea :P GCSEs: 12 A* 2A A Level Subjects: Maths, Further maths, physics, economics Anything else relevant: Done looaads of maths (mostly out of fun ), performed well in a few maths olympiads, best in school in the maths challenge, could go on but I won't
Course: Pure mathematics College: Noo idea :P GCSEs: 12 A* 2A A Level Subjects: Maths, Further maths, physics, economics Anything else relevant: Done looaads of maths (mostly out of fun ), performed well in a few maths olympiads, best in school in the maths challenge, could go on but I won't
Course: English College: St. Catharine's GCSEs: 11A*s A Level Subjects: English Literature, History, French and Ancient Greek Anything else relevant: Not really
I'm planning to apply for 2015 entry. (For mathematics at Kings)
If everything goes to plan I'll have done A level Maths, A level further maths and AS level advanced further maths and got a good grade in STEP I, II and III.
Course: English College: St. Catharine's GCSEs: 11A*s A Level Subjects: English Literature, History, French and Ancient Greek Anything else relevant: Not really
I'm planning to apply for 2015 entry. (For mathematics at Kings)
If everything goes to plan I'll have done A level Maths, A level further maths and AS level advanced further maths and got a good grade in STEP I, II and III.
Haha, I don't really know how I got them, I was probably given someone else's sheet on results day.
I know, I love it! My nan did her degree in French and I've got some family there so they kind of want me to study it but I've always wanted to do English
Quite excited to be writing in an applicants thread! I'm not sure what course I want to do but have been seriously thinking about Cambridge and their courses
Course: Philosophy? College: Not sure GCSEs: 11.5 A* + distinction in ICT A level Subjects: Maths, Biology, History and Religious Studies
Quite excited to be writing in an applicants thread! I'm not sure what course I want to do but have been seriously thinking about Cambridge and their courses
Course: Philosophy? College: Not sure GCSEs: 11.5 A* + distinction in ICT A level Subjects: Maths, Biology, History and Religious Studies
I'm not sure what course I want to do but have been seriously thinking about Cambridge and their courses
Course: Philosophy?
Make sure you get the course right. Otherwise you probably won't get in, and if you did then you'd probably be miserable.
For Philosophy then I read this book as some motivation when deciding whether to apply. I'd highly recommend it (cheap version here if you can't find it in a library). Of course you'll want to read other things as well before making such a major decision, but that's one place to start