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Christs College - rejection... then phoned to be pooled... is there anyone but me???

Is there anybody out there in the same situation as me....

I got rejected from Christ's College for Nat Sci Physical on january 2nd adn thought that was the end... BUT

today I was emailed and told that I should have been pooled due to my GCSE and AS grades....

So now i am in the winter pool....

So after being completely crushed for not getting in... my hopes have now been put up again.... although I am probably in for another rejection, which makes the whole situation worse because Christs obviously didnt think i was good enough to be pooled which is why they gave me the initial rejection

I hope there are more people like me ????

:smile:

xx

Reply 1

crazylemon

20

I have a frined who applied for same course and same colledge (I think). He has been pooled but didnt have the mistake of rejection first

Reply 2

xinolisss

10

Well, there is RichL in another thread who got rejected and then sort of accepted... so they may be making quite a few errors these days

Reply 3

~charmaine~

2

My friend apply to Emma for Computer Science and this happened to her too. She has at least 7A* and 3 subjects with 90% or above UMS too. You have another chance so Good Luck!!!

Reply 4

TheFriendlySocialist

10

victoria13

Is there anybody out there in the same situation as me....

I got rejected from Christ's College for Nat Sci Physical on january 2nd adn thought that was the end... BUT

today I was emailed and told that I should have been pooled due to my GCSE and AS grades....

So now i am in the winter pool....

So after being completely crushed for not getting in... my hopes have now been put up again.... although I am probably in for another rejection, which makes the whole situation worse because Christs obviously didnt think i was good enough to be pooled which is why they gave me the initial rejection

I hope there are more people like me ????

:smile:

xx

Well, they seem to be pooling and taking a look at a lot of people. In my school, out of 7 applicants who've heard back, 3 have been pooled (one natsci, one engineering, one economics).

Christs has a tradition of asking rediculously high offers (I was offered roughly your equivalent of 3 A*s and 3 As at A level) so look on the plus side, since Christs is so bloody good, their applicants are very well looked at in the pool. The fact that they haven't rejected you in something in itself.

How good was your PS / reference / grades? And don't worry, they occasionally screw up with the administration business. I got a mass email addressed to the people who got in last year sent to me by mistake (prophetic... supposing I make the offer :eek:

)

Best of luck!

Reply 5

wiio

7

TheFriendlySocialist

Well, they seem to be pooling and taking a look at a lot of people. In my school, out of 7 applicants who've heard back, 3 have been pooled (one natsci, one engineering, one economics).

Christs has a tradition of asking rediculously high offers (I was offered roughly your equivalent of 3 A*s and 3 As at A level) so look on the plus side, since Christs is so bloody good, their applicants are very well looked at in the pool. The fact that they haven't rejected you in something in itself.

How good was your PS / reference / grades? And don't worry, they occasionally screw up with the administration business. I got a mass email addressed to the people who got in last year sent to me by mistake (prophetic... supposing I make the offer :eek:

)

Best of luck!

The fact that Christ's gives out tough offers doesn't mean it gets a higher standard of applicant - that point is rubbish.

Reply 6

TheFriendlySocialist

10

wiio

The fact that Christ's gives out tough offers doesn't mean it gets a higher standard of applicant - that point is rubbish.

Judging by the fact that I got in, they take in a lot of smart people and a lot of madmen (I judge myself to be strictly the latter :rolleyes:

). However, if you take a look at their pool statistics it shows that their applicants have a higher than average chance of being accepted through the pool.

Christ's is ranked second out of all Cambridge colleges academically, and that is something quite commonly known by cambridge applicants. Most other applicants at my school called me nucking futs for even trying.

Trust me, you've got a better chance than quite a few other people in the pool - but it still isn't high. Your chances are better than before the applications process, but not much.

Reply 7

SouthernFreerider

12

its not rocket science, or a leap of faith, to assume that the country's very best students academically (i.e. the sort of people who literally live and breathe their subject) will apply to the best colleges. the sort of people who could definitely call geniuses, the people that have done a-level in their subject by 12, etc...

Reply 8

username233985

OP

I think my ps was quite good... and i was predicted AAAAA at A level, and my reference was awesome.... not to brag... but i agree i still have a slim chance
it was just bizarre being rejected then being told that i hadnt been...
all i can do is wait i suppose
xx

Reply 9

TheTallOne

18

victoria13

Is there anybody out there in the same situation as me....

I got rejected from Christ's College for Nat Sci Physical on january 2nd adn thought that was the end... BUT

today I was emailed and told that I should have been pooled due to my GCSE and AS grades....

So now i am in the winter pool....

So after being completely crushed for not getting in... my hopes have now been put up again.... although I am probably in for another rejection, which makes the whole situation worse because Christs obviously didnt think i was good enough to be pooled which is why they gave me the initial rejection

I hope there are more people like me ????

:smile:

xx

Same here. I think we have all either: a) been mistakenly rejected, even though they decided to pool us or b) have been automatically pooled, on the 7A*s and 90% UMS rule, however weren't.

However, the winter pool closed last Saturday and I bet they forgot about the auto-pool.

Reply 10

JohnStuartMill

8

TheFriendlySocialist

Christ's is ranked second out of all Cambridge colleges academically, and that is something quite commonly known by cambridge applicants.

Tompkins table? Load of rubbish. Christ's are eighth anyway.

Reply 11

wiio

7

TheFriendlySocialist

Judging by the fact that I got in, they take in a lot of smart people and a lot of madmen (I judge myself to be strictly the latter :rolleyes:

). However, if you take a look at their pool statistics it shows that their applicants have a higher than average chance of being accepted through the pool.

Christ's is ranked second out of all Cambridge colleges academically, and that is something quite commonly known by cambridge applicants. Most other applicants at my school called me nucking futs for even trying.

Trust me, you've got a better chance than quite a few other people in the pool - but it still isn't high. Your chances are better than before the applications process, but not much.

Please don't write "trust me" when you are guessing and speculating as much as the rest of us. The only fact you quote is out of date by the way - Christ's ranked much lower (8th?) last year.

Reply 12

wiio

7

SouthernFreerider

its not rocket science, or a leap of faith, to assume that the country's very best students academically (i.e. the sort of people who literally live and breathe their subject) will apply to the best colleges. the sort of people who could definitely call geniuses, the people that have done a-level in their subject by 12, etc...

Such people will (almost always) have nothing to do with the pool though. Literally. Although I agree with Arrogant Git's comment below that the kind of people you describe aren't necessarily going to be the geniuses at uni.

Reply 13

Arrogant Git

TheFriendlySocialist

However, if you take a look at their pool statistics it shows that their applicants have a higher than average chance of being accepted through the pool.

Which pool statistics?

Christ's is ranked second out of all Cambridge colleges academically, and that is something quite commonly known by cambridge applicants. Most other applicants at my school called me nucking futs for even trying.

Some facts.

1) Christ's is eighth in the Tompkins table.
2) Colleges positions in the Tompkins table shows nothing but how good a college is at getting to the top of the Tompkins table. As it's weighted in such a way that a first and a 2.II is given more points than two 2.Is, it is appalling biased in favour of 'science heavy' colleges and against colleges with greater balance. It also varies from year to year, and is more indicative of the pressure to perform placed upon students than the standard of the applicants. Selwyn is the top college this year, but it isn't a spectacularly competitive college.

Reply 14

Arrogant Git

SouthernFreerider

its not rocket science, or a leap of faith, to assume that the country's very best students academically (i.e. the sort of people who literally live and breathe their subject) will apply to the best colleges. the sort of people who could definitely call geniuses, the people that have done a-level in their subject by 12, etc...

Two points.
1) The people who think they are geniuses in school are often in for a very nasty surprise in Cambridge. Often, the people who did A-levels a year early and so on aren't the brightest, but in fact have the pushiest parents. I know people who've been put forward years and failed to even get into Oxbridge. The keenest aren't always the best.

2) Not everyone (and probably very few people) applies to a college purely for academic reasons. Certain colleges have a particularly good reputation for a particular subject (Trinity and Maths springs to mind), but maths is a subject where you can know you're good (by doing BMO, IMO etc). In History or Law, for example, it's hard to gauge objectively how good you are. So the 'successful colleges' of one year tend to attract the next year's arrogant bastards rather than the next year's high achievers.

3) If what you said was true, we would expect a small number of colleges to dominate the top spots of the Tompkin's Table. From what we've seen, this isn't true at all.

Reply 15

Arrogant Git

wiio

Such people will have nothing to do with the pool though. Literally.

Not true. I know people who've come top ten in their year consistently and were pooled.

Reply 16

gotnoidea

i was rejected last week from emma for phys natsci...which was a bit of a nasty shock as i thought i met the autopool req's..

have basically only just got over it and would be horrible to be told, actually you should have been pooled :frown:

Reply 17

gotnoidea

oh, and congratulations by the way! :biggrin:

Reply 18

samski1

gotnoidea

i was rejected last week from emma for phys natsci...which was a bit of a nasty shock as i thought i met the autopool req's..

have basically only just got over it and would be horrible to be told, actually you should have been pooled :frown:

oh thats sucks :frown:

i hear all this stuff and speculation about the way the pool and applications work, and id rather just ignore it, cos otherwise it can mean getting hopes up... i didnt even realise there was an autopool... eg some people saying "if you havent heard about an interview from the pool, it means u got a place or you dont"... trying to 2nd guess it is gonna lead to upset :s-smilie:

i applied to christs, and didnt realise it had been as high as some people have said... i just narrowed down the colleges from the list in other ways than their performance... (i wouldnt even know where the list is...)

and good luck vic & anyone else pooled...