The Cambridge 2013 Results Day Discussion Thread

Thanks, that's really reassuring. And congratulations!

No problem, thanks It's weird because I got a place with a D, yet people with straight A's are rejected... who knows what is going on there

PBS at Corpus here

Well, I guess maths doesn't really contribute much to languages And given you did well in your other subjects they just ignore the low mark.

Similarly I got a C in physics AS and hold an offer for geography, and I know of several others in a similar position who got less than a B in their 4th AS. Of course, if I were applying for a science, I'd have no chance, really.

It's a really tiny course compared to my other ones!

pbs at trinity hall yes you're right i think its only going to be 65 students!

I received a Linguistics offer whilst on a gap year. (We've talked before on the Ling applicants' thread. Anyway, feel free to PM/VM/whatever me if you think I could help in any way.)

I have an offer on a gap year but I'm not MML/Linguistics (but not far off) as I'll be doing Latin and ancient Greek?

True My boyfriend got a B in philosophy and he was rejected for maths. We clearly picked better courses

Oh yeah hi what did you do on the gap year and do you think it helped the application?

Any Northern Irish folk have offers for Girton College??? If so what course
Have to have a little St.Patrick's day celebration next year!

Yes, I think it helped quite a lot actually. I don't know how it works in the UK, but in my country most university lectures are open to the public, so this year I'm attending some Linguistics lectures at the local university (meaning I'm not enrolled, I just go in and noone really minds or even notices). So that first of all helped me decide whether the course at university level was really for me, plus I could mention it in my PS, which I guess showed commitment. Also, I think things I picked up in the lectures might have indirectly helped in the interviews.

Apart from that I do other language-related stuff: I'm teaching English (as a foreign language) and am learning languages myself. Naturally, not everything I do is related to Linguistics, but these were the things I mentioned in my PS.

I think for most Arts subjects they don't really mind if you take a gap year, and if you're applying for languages some colleges even have some preference for it.

All sounds good, yeah I can see why it may be a preference - I'm going to be living and working in France for the year whilst applying for French/French and Philosophy at Oxford

Oh awkward!
That kinda reminds me actually. A teacher I had last year (she studied Law at Cambs) told me of this couple at her old sixth form where the guy got in and the girlfriend didn't. The guy rejected Cambridge so they could both go to Durham (I think?), and by the time uni started they'd broken up

Why Oxford?

Hi! That'd be good, better than this year's anyway! I've an offer for Trinity but there's hardly anyone else from Norn Iron on here that I have found so far my offer is for HSPS

Anyone for corpus?

And any law people?

Oh awkward!
That kinda reminds me actually. A teacher I had last year (she studied Law at Cambs) told me of this couple at her old sixth form where the guy got in and the girlfriend didn't. The guy rejected Cambridge so they could both go to Durham (I think?), and by the time uni started they'd broken up

I'm from Northern Ireland! Offer for Law from Christ's.