The Official Cambridge Winter Pool 2013 Thread (includes FAQ and Status Reports)

That is perhaps the most detailed, sophisticated AND pleasant maps of the fair city of Cambridge I have ever seen. Kudos to you, good sir.

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Sarcasm aside, I am a linguistic fish who needs to be caught. Where is the flaming bait?

Where exactly IS Girton?

how high must your predicted grades be to get auto-pooled if you're in IB? I havent heard anything from Clare yet though

Wieso hat niemand JP aus dem Pool herausgefischt?!?!?!

It is an exaggeration btw You don't take an aeroplane to get to homerton, it's only a couple of miles south

We've yet to see. I daren't consider re-application just yet.

True. But time goes on there's only so long I can wait before I donate all my Cam prospectuses to school (and I had quite a lovely collection of the different college prospectuses too!)

Best of luck to you too.

Meh you can go to the best college in Durham instead of the most-dissed college in Cambridge (I'm giving you this one, but if I get in I'll forever defend Girton)
I always imagine this conversation: 'I did my undergrad at Cambridge' 'Oh wow! Which college?' 'Girton ' 'Oh... Well that doesn't really count does it'
which is based on my head of sixth form telling us her daughter was at Oxford - 'yes, Oxford Brookes!'

I just realised too, it really doesn't help that 'Girton' is such an ugly name.

Thanks for the info. Really very happy for you, just also very jealous!

They fished four people for Law last year, so there's still a bit of hope I suppose

I havent seen a single economics poolee get anything.

how high must your predicted grades be to get auto-pooled if you're in IB? I havent heard anything from Clare yet though

At that college or in total!?

You would reapply??

yeah, me neither. Although, every year about 15% of economics offers are made through the pool, so our chances aren't disastrous.

Hi, I've been pooled by Trinity for Maths, so similar situation as you guys. I know that there have been a fair few offers/interviews given out for Maths so far (on TSR), however they have all been from Girton, Hommerton, Robinson or Newnam. Other colleges also take Maths 'Poolees', so I wouldn't give up hope at all yet, we may just have been taken by a different college that hasn't started to deal with Maths yet, or hasn't started to deal with anything yet. Remember, it's a sunday, so it's quite possible that they'll start telling us tomorrow.

Also, I haven't had a look at them all, but to Atropos, 32 Trinity Maths 'Poolees', were given offers last year. I don't know how many were pooled, but that's still high taking into account that 99 Maths Poolees overall were given offers. So being pooled by big colleges like Trinity and St.Johns will hopefully increase our chances.

Moreover, as Maths doesn't have an auto-pool system, we were pooled because our colleges were likely oversubscribed, but they think that we are up to the standard for Cambridge.

Finally, as Cambridge require STEP for Maths, colleges looking for 'Poolees' are more likely to give us offers, as a lot us sadly won't make the STEP requirement, hence they can afford to give out more offers than places available.

That should make you feel calmer. Although I admit the wait is very annoying and hard to bear. I'm struggling to to do any work for my exams, out of nervousness about this. I don't really want to go anywhere other than Cambridge! But Good Luck to you all!

Im just so surprised Ive been pooled; the number of applicants at my college for my subject was well below that of previous years, only just above the number of offers they usually give out in fact! I would have thought i would have been accepted or rejected... Doesnt give me much hope :/ Interviews were awful (especially the DoS one which is more important, the tutor one was mediocre) and my ums is pretty low comparatively (87%). Honestly dont understand how I have even been pooled. So odd. Now keeping fingers crossed for a miracle