Cambridge Decisions 2015 - info and FAQ

Yeah, but if they've extended it all, and they said they'd have it sorted they should have sorted it.

If they'd said there is a chance of no decision but in pool it would be fine. Ish

you don't want to be rejected, you just want to know!

Hello both

When I saw this I assumed you were both medics, and aersh8 has confirmed that for me.

My understanding is that there are a number of applicants for Medicine only who are still being considered for an open offer. What an open offer means is that you would be guaranteed a place - assuming you met your offer conditions in full - but the college you would be placed at won't be decided until after the A level results are published in August.

Each year, a small number (about five) of these open offers are made for Medicine. Unfortunately it appears that the process of allocating these open offers hasn't been completed in time for the main mail-out, hence the terms of the letter you've received today. I don't know how many people are in contention for this offers, as Cambridge has never published this information so far as I am aware, but it is fair to say that the odds in favour of getting an offer this way are not as good as they are for the re-interviewees. The 'open offer' group as I understood it from previous years is completely separate from the re-interviewed group, but I can't confirm that now because the information is 'behind the wall'. Here's hoping that they will make their minds up and let you know quickly.

Applicants for all other subjects - except the re-interviewees, who know who they are by now - can be assured that their decisions have been made, and that this information will reach them some time over the next few days.

See explanation above

Yes they have - these were decided on 6 January, and are being communicated from now.

This is a special case relating to Medicine applicants only.

Nah you'll get in - haha or Durham! Oxbridge reject stereotype activate!


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Nooo I'm sorry it was lovely meeting you, and I'm sure you'll go to another great university!

Rejected from Emma for PBS. Tried not to get my hopes up, but still so disappointed..

Gahhhh I just wanna be rejected so I can move on with my life. Rather than this agonising 'hope' thing

you don't want to be rejected, you just want to know!

Thanks, make room for me at Pembroke

Candidates who are pooled are most likely still under consideration against applicants being reinterviewed. My brother stewed in the pool for two weeks before his rejection. These people will have to wait at most half of that. Cambridge has hard choices to make either you want them to be blasé or careful, dont be so entitled. The pool hasn't been extended as people in the pool still are only being looked at by a single (id guess their original) college.


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I'm not sure any more. My mind is completely frazzled with stress again. That unnatural calm from earlier has disappeared to be replaced with terror, anxiety and mild nausea.

Yes - in that case if you got an open offer it would be unconditional, so you'd be guaranteed a place, but the college would not be decided until August. You would take precedence over anyone who missed their offer.

Emmanuel College, Economics, A*AA


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So basically we now have to wait till the end of January to find out about our fates.

Does anyone know when you find out which college you've been pooled to?

Pool interviews have a 40+% success rate this means as you are under the same consideration based off you're original performance you also have this success rate. This means that your chances of an offer since discovering you were pooled have increased.


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I don't understand how it works though if someone has been fished by a college how can they not know which college? Surely a college fished them



Just chuck on some music

I've been accepted to study Philosophy at Christ' College Cambridge! I'm so pleased!

I've been accepted to study Philosophy at Christ' College Cambridge! I'm so pleased!

Good luck to both of you! I was feeling the exact same waiting for Oxford on Wednesday :3 Whatever the outcome, you'll be at a leading university and have every chance of success

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