Undergraduate Cambridge Offer Holders (2022 Entry)

mz2004

Hi everyone! I thought it'd be nice/useful to have a thread for people who have been accepted by Cambridge this year. Please introduce yourselves with your course and college, and what you're looking forward to about starting university :smile:

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christiemarie1

Hi! Thanks for starting this thread :smile:

I'm Christie and I'll hopefully be studying English at Downing. I'm so excited to live in such a beautiful place and study my favourite subject literally at the university where so many of my favourite authors studied! I'm also really looking forward to being part of an individual college with its own history, colours and traditions, and dressing up for formals even though it seems like a silly thing

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parthenocarpy

heyy people,

I'm at Downing college for medicine.
Personally, I'm tired of being the 'smart' one in the class so i'm glad cambridge took me on so i can finally feel normal. That's what im looking forward to.

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Rebeca5782

Hi!!
I’m Penelope and I’ll hopefully be studying law at Girton. I’m most excited about learning more about my subject and meeting loads of I interesting bright people :smile:

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Fibonacci28

Hi!
I'll be studying Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius. I'm really looking forward to meeting like minded people and learning loads more stuff about the subjects I love

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Kvitravn

Hi! I’ll be studying Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic at St Catharine’s :smile:

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ahws2022

Hi! I've an offer for linguistics at Gonville and Caius :smile:

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s8520

Hi, I have an offer for natsci at medwards!

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blueforest313

Hii, I got a conditional offer for maths at Christ's!

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hollyleaf74

Hi! I have an offer for English at St Catharine's :smile:

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kritivr

hey, i have an offer for law at st. catharines :smile:

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eomahony

Hi, I have an offer for Law at Queens'! :smile:

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BargainBean

Hey - I have an offer for English at Caius - I haven't found anyone else for my course + college combo on here!

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lucaa4

Hi!! I've got an offer for architecture at Girton. If there's anyone that's got something similar going on lmkk :smile:

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louisdtks

Hi everyone! Congrats on your offers. I received one for PBS at Homerton :smile:

Reply 15

Anonneemouse

One thing that intrigues me is do universities like Cambridge only give out as many offers as they have spaces for? Do they expect a certain percentage to not meet the grades and over offer? Just wondering if there could ever be a scenario where everyone met their offer requirements and there wasn’t enough accommodation etc?

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_Mia101

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Original post by Anonneemouse

I believe they slightly over offer like 1.3 offers per space, but most people a. firm Cambridge and b. meet their offer so it is usually quite exact.

In the scenario that more people than anticipated don't meet their offer they will a. offer them a place regardless or b. pick someone else from the summer pool

The exception to the offer ratio is maths which is like 3 offers per space and that is because many people don't meet the STEP requirement. I imagine in that instance it isn't possible for everyone to meet the offer anyways since I'm guessing STEP scores have a distribution so only a certain number of people can get an S or a 1, but not 100% sure on that bit :smile:

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amethystmoss