The Official 2017 Cambridge Applicants Thread

Original post by thirdcultureteen

Hihi technically Singaporean here but I've been living in Shanghai since I was 4 so I identify myself as Chinese

Niceee👍🏼

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Original post by Xiuchen

Good luck to you too!! :biggrin:

I see, so they asked you to travel to Shanghai :P

This makes me so happy haha. Good luck to all of you! Hope to see y'all in Cambridge :smile:

Me too!! So nice to see so many of us around hahah!

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IcedArizona

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Got an interview at Exeter, don't know when yet but hope I'll get to choose it before the Cambs interview so I'll get a little practice! Most of the interview is on ps and motivations but there's a problem on a topic we should not have seen before to work out so I hope it'll train me haha :colondollar:

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Original post by agirlontheweb

It's so beautiful right! it's weird because I consider myself the opposite of a tourist (go to college in Cambridge and live nearby) but it's so charming I couldn't resist :tongue:

it is! i didn't want to like it so much but i really did haha

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PhoenixWings

Original post by agirlontheweb

It's so beautiful right! it's weird because I consider myself the opposite of a tourist (go to college in Cambridge and live nearby) but it's so charming I couldn't resist :tongue:

I applied for King's too ^_^ I just felt most at home at King's when I looked around the colleges

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Original post by peachykeen

So many Chinese applicants woo :biggrin:

I'm ethnically Chinese although born and bred in the UK
we're going to have to form a little gang lol

Omg really?! I can't believe I've only found out now 😂

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agirlontheweb

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Original post by PhoenixWings

I applied for King's too ^_^ I just felt most at home at King's when I looked around the colleges

Yeah both the current students and fellows I met were really friendly, which helped give my day there a really good vibe.

Some of the other applicants I met there were slightly...closer to the Cambridge stereotype shall we say :tongue:

but all the people on TSR seem a lot more friendly and normal!

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NeverLucky

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Original post by PhoenixWings

I applied for King's too ^_^ I just felt most at home at King's when I looked around the colleges

Woo finally found some King's applicants 😂😂

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Original post by czhang1998

Omg really?! I can't believe I've only found out now 😂

aha yep! hope we'll bump into each other somehow :tongue:

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Original post by NeverLucky

Woo finally found some King's applicants 😂😂

i feel like we're all suddenly crawling out from the woodwork lol

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Original post by peachykeen

aha yep! hope we'll bump into each other somehow :tongue:

Yep defo! We will be seeing each other often if we both get in for our subjects :crossedf:

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Doones

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Original post by richardhello

@jneill do we need to send fee status stuff by post, can it not be scanned? @Peterhouse Admissions

This may already have been answered, but afaik you need to send it back according to the instructions you received from your college.

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NeverLucky

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Original post by peachykeen

i feel like we're all suddenly crawling out from the woodwork lol

I haven't even visited King's yet :/ I'll have to deffo look around when I go to interview hahaha, what subject you doing?

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Doones

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Original post by I can do this

Apologies if this has already been discussed! But are we expecting Cambridge to be considerably more competitive this year in terms of numbers of applicants due to A level reform?

Nope. Not "considerably" anyway.

Across Oxbridge/Medicine deadline applicants those from EU are down 9% (brexit), but UK up 3% so not much overall change.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/fewer-eu-students-apply-start-12084008

Edit to add Cambridge data:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/oct/27/uk-university-applications-from-eu-down-9-ucas
"Cambridge University reported a decline in applications from EU students, down from 2,652 last year to 2,277 this year, in the context of an overall increase in applications to 16,875."

Checking http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/statistics they had 16,719 applicants in 2016 so only a small increase of 156 applicants (+1%).

(edited 7 years ago)

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FriendlyPenguin

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Original post by peachykeen

So many Chinese applicants woo :biggrin:

I'm ethnically Chinese although born and bred in the UK
we're going to have to form a little gang lol

Yes, Chinese students at Cambridge do tend to form little gangs; in fact, one of my supervisors expressed displeasure that we had so many Chinese this year, because s/he says in past years, supervisions with some Chinese students became a nightmare when they couldn't easily communicate in English, having gradually forgotten it through lack of use.

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Original post by czhang1998

Yep defo! We will be seeing each other often if we both get in for our subjects :crossedf:

ahhhhhhh that would be so good

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Original post by NeverLucky

I haven't even visited King's yet :/ I'll have to deffo look around when I go to interview hahaha, what subject you doing?

it's so gorgeous in person! I'm applying for History of Art, wbu? :h:

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