Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

hi guys I'm 10. Can someone make a cambridge 2023 entry thread please? thanks.

I'm taking maths, further maths, chemistry, physics, economics and epq. dropping economics at y13 haha
would love to apply for natsci (physical). Do they care a lot about teacher references? My teachers are a bit drab so probably won't write anything stellar enough to win me a place at Cambridge haha

Yep, of course, thanks for the advice! I might get started with the mechanics modules after I finish my exams and just briefly learn some of the pure maths. Thanks again! Are you at Cambridge now?

hi guys I'm 10. Can someone make a cambridge 2023 entry thread please? thanks.

No worries! and haha sadly no, (or at least not yet ). I'm in year 12 hoping to do medicine. Yeh good idea, i'm doing FM right now and M1 and FP1 are modules you can mostly teach yourself (with the exception of some slightly more abstract topics in FP1). I haven't done M2 but heard it's an interesting module!

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Yeah, I'm actually in a Medicine/NatSci dilemma (although Natsci is starting to win me over) haha. Well, all the best for your studies and hoep we both get in!

I chose natsci, kinda wish I went for med

Why?

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Medicine is a quicker way into making a difference I feel. And I think I'd thrive under the pressure of quick decision making within surgery. It's also quite like... Challenging.

NatSci my intention was to do something I enjoy, going into pharmaceuticals and helping that way. But it's a bit less direct and slow imo, and theory you can always learn, with medicine you need a knack for it, and practise.

There's also an air of success in becoming a doctor I think, so I grad entry med is appealing, even if it slow and expensive

Will see anyway

Yeah, I'm actually in a Medicine/NatSci dilemma (although Natsci is starting to win me over) haha. Well, all the best for your studies and hoep we both get in!

I chose natsci, kinda wish I went for med

Fair enough
If you ever become a doctor you will probably be able to pay the postgrad money back :P

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Ohh ok, two of the best choices imo . I guess if you are more keen on the academic side of medicine and learning about biochemistry in general, natsci is probably the better course. Maybe if it's more 'social' side you want as well as the academic side then medicine is better. Ultimately, do what you really want to do in the end and yeh thanks, best of luck to you too and hope we can too! :P.

Sounds like you could easily do grad medicine judging by your offers :P (well done on them by the way!), if you're really feeling like you're missing out on medicine then change but your career prospects are set with a degree in natsci from Cambridge.

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Thanks got rejected by St A though so probably couldn't get in there for gem lol

I don't want to drop out with a Cambridge offer tbh, we live long enough, I'm sure I'll have time time for both! (unless something tragic happens)

I chose natsci, kinda wish I went for med

Really? Unless you really want to become an actual doctor you can always do biological NatSci and do physiology?

No way lol

Would have to be an actual doctor

Did you not consider Med? Or did you blindly chose NatSci?

It wasn't blind, bit harsh

I thought about Medicine, I knew I wouldn't volunteer and do all the necessary crap right now. All the hoop jumping so it would have been a futile application I imagine.

I think this highlights that you don't really want to do Medicine/be a Doctor. All that 'necessary crap' and 'hoop jumping' wouldn't be seen that way if so.