Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2015 Entry - MK II

Need help with SAQ personal statement. Civil engineering, anyone?

C'est bizarre

It's just really hard to learn German words

Outside Cambridge, have you people received any offers?
I have one from Manchester for ChemEng (AAA in any from Maths, Chemistry, Physics and Further Maths). I'm still waiting to hear back from UCL, Imperial and Birmingham (and Cambridge of course).
I really hope I get a AAB offer from UCL. I'd love to have it as an insurance.

Manchester AAA for Aerospace Engineering. Also I didn't know you were overseas.

Congrats on your offer mate, ive applied to Cambridge imperial bath manchester and Surrey for chem eng just out of curiosity when did you send your application? Which college in Cambridge are you applying to?

Haha hey all!! I have my medicine interview in 3 days :O This is stressful haha damnn

Good luck! What were your grades? Have you prepared well for the interview?

Haha we don't get to see our predicted grades (cause our school doesn't want us to), but I reckon its a 43 points for IB

Uhh wellllll how do you ever know? I have questioned about my existence several times over the past few weeks, I've tried to talk to my friends about deep intellectual conversations about sciences, I've tried to have practice interviews with my friends and parents, but I am still worried as hell

Thank you very much. I sent my application the 30th of September, so I received an offer around 15 days after that. I called Birmingham and the admissions tutor said that if I hadn't received my offer by the week that just passed, I'd receive it this week! I'm excited for that. I applied to Churchill at Cambridge.
Good luck with your application. Chemical engineering is an amazing career path!
Also I hear Bath is super fast when replying to offers (not sure if this applies to ChemEng though). Manchester shouldn't take longer than 2 weeks for you, same as for me.

So you're practising! Then I'm sure you'll do fine. The important thing is to focus!

I sent my application on the 14th of October probably why I haven't got any replies yet. what was your avg ums? Im applying to Fitzwilliam yeah ive heard that bath is really fast thats why im kinda scared now

Haha focus during the interview is it? Is it ok if I 1) digress and 2) add 'uhs' while speaking?

1) i realised I tend to take one thing, and eventually end up somewhere else completely at times. I mean i answer the question, but then somehow I feel the need to continue talking. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Should I like immediately stop after answering the question, or should I just keep going?

2) My friends said while I don't stammer on my answers, I tend to add 'uhs' alot. Should I be worried about this

Remember you're not the only one who is not fully prepared for the interview!

Haha hey all!! I have my medicine interview in 3 days :O This is stressful haha damnn

Haha focus during the interview is it? Is it ok if I 1) digress and 2) add 'uhs' while speaking?

1) i realised I tend to take one thing, and eventually end up somewhere else completely at times. I mean i answer the question, but then somehow I feel the need to continue talking. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Should I like immediately stop after answering the question, or should I just keep going?

2) My friends said while I don't stammer on my answers, I tend to add 'uhs' alot. Should I be worried about this

Haha focus during the interview is it? Is it ok if I 1) digress and 2) add 'uhs' while speaking?

1) i realised I tend to take one thing, and eventually end up somewhere else completely at times. I mean i answer the question, but then somehow I feel the need to continue talking. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Should I like immediately stop after answering the question, or should I just keep going?

2) My friends said while I don't stammer on my answers, I tend to add 'uhs' alot. Should I be worried about this