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

Hey, i was wondering, if I already received my letter from selwyn, stating that I've been pooled and that I drowned, does that mean no other colleges will consider it like someone's story above?

I'm an international applicant by the way

Thank you in advance

Do yourself a favour and stop, now. You're not improving your image.

go and read last nights thread. you are entitled to your view. I disagree with it ...... does this make me rude?
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I disagree with it ...... does this make me rude?

go and read last nights thread. you are entitled to your view. I disagree with it ...... does this make me rude?

I have estimated or underestimated anything. I am free to comment in terms of my opinion on performance.

We should be careful when people want to stop a discussion by saying it is rude because it simply goes against their view.

No. You are rude because of the way you went about stating your opinion. If you think that Minerva should be much more clear about people's chances then that's okay - there's nothing intrinsically wrong about that. You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to insult people or criticize them because you disagree - that goes above and beyond stating a viewpoint and starts to become rude.

And your opinion is wrong. People are still receiving offers, and I expect there is going to be an influx of offers in the next few days from those that have been re-interviewed or those that are still under consideration without re-interview. It would be wrong of Minerva to say that people have no chance at all now, because they still have a chance.

apart from Stray who was very rude to me I do not believe I have been rude to anyone.... prove it?

who have I insultef apart from the troll Stray.

you don't like what I am ssying so you call it rude and insulting. I don't agree with what you say but accept thst is your opinion snd you are entitled to it.

Disagreeing doesn't. Insulting someone's intelligence like you did to Stray, or insinuating that there is some conspiracy Minerva is giving hopes to people in order to improve hits and revenue on TSR is, when she is clearly just a volunteer. It is both rude and ungrateful.



You might think it's simply going against your view, but actually it's hurtful and everybody is right in saying you should stop. It's weird how it's always the obnoxious that brandies free speech about

Yes, I'm afraid it does. In the story above, it was the applicant's preference college that took him on. In your case, your preference college has already made a final decision not to make you an offer.

I would say baselessly questioning whether Minerva has ulterior motives is frankly quite rude, when she has spent so much of her own time in helping others. Worse is the fact that you appeared to do so simply because you disagreed with her.

Hi guys, I've just had my reinterview for chem eng via engineering (the interview was just engineering and I'm assessed against engineering applicants).

It went well and was totally technical, the guy actually said quite frankly I don't really care about your hobbies, this interview is just gonna be technical lol

The main thing that COMPLETELY threw me at the start was the that as soon as I sat down he said the engineering applicants were being interviewed for 2014 so if I got the offer it would be deferred!! I'm not fussed by this as Cambridge now is the same Cambridge a year later and engineers often take a gap year, but it was just really surprising that all their interviews for engineering were for deferred offers!

I'll see what the outcome is, I'm praying it's good and I seriously wish all fish that have been interviewed and those still swimming the best of luck. This process has thrown so much at us from every single angle and for most of us it is the first major kind of rejection we've ever really had. Whatever it put is through I have learned so much, grown as a person and learnt never never to stop fighting and there is always another boat to catch if we miss the first one. The pool is something that people don't know how it feels until you are in it and we can always take the lessons we have learnt from this experience to be able to cope with other tough situations in the future.

Go fishes!!!!!!!!!!

Strays response was very insulting to me ... but no one commented on this.

my response to Stray was deleted by the mods because I questioned his/her intelligence.

this person is not an applicant or a parent and had an offer in 1994.

who questioned what? your opinio and your entitled.

apart from Stray who was very rude to me I do not believe I have been rude to anyone.... prove it?

who have I insultef apart from the troll Stray.

you don't like what I am ssying so you call it rude and insulting. I don't agree with what you say but accept thst is your opinion snd you are entitled to it.

Probably because she wasn't coming across as very obnoxious when she responded? And it was in a context where what she said was sense, unlike how you were being constantly argumentative. In any case personally I didn't find what she said that insulting, and I suspect neither does the rest of us.



I'm sure what she said to you either initially or back was much less insulting than that.



Neither am I and I got an offer in 2009. Neither is Minerva, or in fact Colmans or TimmonaPortella.

In the post that you deleted you wrongly assumed that I am not a parent of an applicant. I am, but he had to withdraw his application for 2013, to defer for a year, because of serious health issues.

The main thing that COMPLETELY threw me at the start was the that as soon as I sat down he said the engineering applicants were being interviewed for 2014 so if I got the offer it would be deferred!! I'm not fussed by this as Cambridge now is the same Cambridge a year later and engineers often take a gap year, but it was just really surprising that all their interviews for engineering were for deferred offers!

I'll see what the outcome is, I'm praying it's good and I seriously wish all fish that have been interviewed and those still swimming the best of luck. This process has thrown so much at us from every single angle and for most of us it is the first major kind of rejection we've ever really had. Whatever it put is through I have learned so much, grown as a person and learnt never never to stop fighting and there is always another boat to catch if we miss the first one. The pool is something that people don't know how it feels until you are in it and we can always take the lessons we have learnt from this experience to be able to cope with other tough situations in the future.

Go fishes!!!!!!!!!!

That is a really sad thing.

It said your application for Law was pooled but neither Selwyn nor any other colleges was in the end able to offer you a place.

Anyways thank you

ARGHHH

LSE FTW

oh and please add me to the drowned list :P

applied for Law, open app then assigned to Selwyn. Thanks!

I'm not sure can do this - Cambridge says somewhere that they don't consider people currently enrolled as students at other universities.

But you are right about not being able to carry forward offers from this year and re-apply next year, even if the unis concerned agree to defer your place. This would still mean that it counts as being part of this cycle, and you can't apply in the next one without cancelling everything from it.