Economics applicant thread UCAS 2014

I thought Pembroke was quite a popular college, it seems decent though now as only 29 have applied, me being one of them

So I just checked out the stats on that website.. Last year 90 people applied for an economics course at Kings. 10 offers were made and 7 people were accepted. I'm just going to go run to a corner and cry now..


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OMG THIS IS GREAT! I'VE FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE APPLYING FOR THE SAME COURSE AS ME AT KINGS! YAYYAYAY. LOL sorry. Hi Dente and Good luck!!


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There's 4 of us applying to Pembroke here, me, you, PierreIsNotMyName and someone else I can't remember, it'd be cool if we all met up

Can someone please tell me the A levels i should be taking in order to get into land economy at cambrduge?

There is no perfect or right combination of subjects for Land Economy applicants and nothing in particular is meant to be essential. A mix of arts and sciences would probably stand you in good stead though. Subjects like Geography, Economics, Maths, History and Government & Politics would all be good!

that would be wicked, the amount of people applying to Pembroke is not that high and so hopefully we have a better chance than last year of getting in I hope. In fact this is the lowest since the last 5 years and its low by quite a bit. Maybe the admissions officers get angry by the amount of people applying to other colleges and so they give us offers instead

Im hoping this is good news, from the past years it looks like they don't take anyone out of the winter pool. Could change however given the lower number of applicants. Hoping that they've got into the habit of not taking anyone from the pool.

Their average % of offers seems to be 14.5% over the last 4 years.
If they followed that this year they would offer 4 places.

However I think its more likely they stick to their current numbers (in terms of students per year) which is about 5 or 6. This leaves us with 17% and 21% respectively.

Or you could disregard both of those points, as they probably will take only those who they feel are worthy of a place as opposed to filling places. Whether that be 4, 5 or 6 people.

EDIT: worth noting that a Pembroke applicant's % chance of getting an offer from any college including Pembroke is 18%

Yeah I have a feeling that although the number of applicants have gone down significantly this year (the trend is usually throughout all colleges for economics), Cambridge might still give out higher offers especially if the quality of applicants have increased. However if we relate this to our years GCSE and As level results (which have both declined in our year) then the quality should be less too, however it could just be that the brighter students performed very well this year compared to previous years while the other students performed much worse than in previous years thus bringing the averages down. Either way one would mean less competition but also less spaces while the other would mean fewer but better quality of applicants in which case the number of places given out could just be similar (6-7) to previous years. Damn I like statistics

Just got an offer from Bristol. (AA in Mathematics and Economics - I already had an A* in Polish and apparently only need to get these 2).

Hi when did you send off your UCAS?


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Just got an offer from Bristol. (AA in Mathematics and Economics - I already had an A* in Polish and apparently only need to get these 2).

Hurray, I just got my first offer from Bristol! A*AA in Mathematics and Economics with 90 in C3 and C4.

Great. Mine just says AA in C3 and C4 so that wouldn't be too difficult to get.
Well, they also want 7.0 in IELTS (I hoped they would let me without it) but meh, it shouldn't be too difficult either.