Cambridge Offer Holders 2015 thread

Reply 1940

Quite a few sidney math applicants got offers from other colleges, looks like im going to have a pretty strong year to contend with haha

Lol yh. Fitz gave out like 13/38 direct offers haha. I will get rejected if I don't meet the offer. Gna bang that sss fam. Overall was like 18 offers. Considering they only have like 6-9 places.

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Reply 1941

Melanie Leconte

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Original post by newblood

I think he means why would you set your standards so low :colone:

Reply 1942

Melanie Leconte

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Original post by physicsmaths

Precisely.
Cambridge all the way. All Cambridge offer holders must despise oxford. It is a rule that comes on the offer letter.

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Ah! I haven't received the letter YET :colone:

Reply 1943

username1162972

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Original post by Melanie Leconte

Ah! I haven't received the letter YET :colone:

You can start practising.

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Reply 1944

Melanie Leconte

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Original post by physicsmaths

You can start practising.

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I need to cover some of the modules first then I will.

Please guys don't forget us next year, come back and help :smile:

Reply 1945

Elcor

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Original post by jneill

2015 Offer data is back!

http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/statistics

And, re Philosophy @ Christ's, 10 applicants, 3 offers.

Thanks for the update! 20/135 for Engineering at Pembroke (also, pool offers down from the usual 15 to just 3 this year).

Reply 1946

aprocrastinator

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the application statistics were slightly anticlimatic... I'm not sure what I was hoping for lol.

my college is one of the least competitive for medicine I think (applicant to offer ratio wise)

Reply 1947

laurensmiley97

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Original post by aprocrastinator

the application statistics were slightly anticlimatic... I'm not sure what I was hoping for lol.

my college is one of the least competitive for medicine I think (applicant to offer ratio wise)

I agree haha, I was expecting some kind of big revelation or something but obviously there's not going to be much of a surprise factor when all they are basically saying is fewer people get offers than apply lol

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Reply 1948

Rhetorical Hips

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Original post by aprocrastinator

the application statistics were slightly anticlimatic... I'm not sure what I was hoping for lol.

my college is one of the least competitive for medicine I think (applicant to offer ratio wise)

Nah Caius has the best ratio (for medicine), one of the reasons I applied there :h:

Reply 1949

Renascence

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Hello all, I was hoping you guys could help me out with the situation I'm in right now.

So I've been offered a place at Cambridge to study Economics, but I'm now having doubts about what course I really want to do. To be honest, I only chose econ at the start of the year because I thought it would help my career options the most (and I do actually like it quite a lot), but I've realised the subject I'm most passionate about is Physics. I've looked up the Natsci course for Cambridge, and there are a lot of courses that really interest me throughout the 4 years. I know that this is quite a leap. I emailed Cambridge admissions a couple of weeks ago to see whether they could clarify my future options, but they just advised me to email my college now. What do guys think I should do? I fear my offer will be rescinded if I email my college (which I don't want to happen because I would still love to learn economics, I just prefer Physics), so I reckon it would be wiser to ask about a course change once (if) I'm there in October? I really have no idea what to do tbh.

Additional info: I'm predicted A* in maths, further maths and physics, but just an A in economics (offer is A* in FM and economics, A in maths/physics - I know I will need 4A* if I want to be admitted and switch to Physical Natsci).

Reply 1950

Colmans

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Original post by Renascence

Hello all, I was hoping you guys could help me out with the situation I'm in right now.

So I've been offered a place at Cambridge to study Economics, but I'm now having doubts about what course I really want to do. To be honest, I only chose econ at the start of the year because I thought it would help my career options the most (and I do actually like it quite a lot), but I've realised the subject I'm most passionate about is Physics. I've looked up the Natsci course for Cambridge, and there are a lot of courses that really interest me throughout the 4 years. I know that this is quite a leap. I emailed Cambridge admissions a couple of weeks ago to see whether they could clarify my future options, but they just advised me to email my college now. What do guys think I should do? I fear my offer will be rescinded if I email my college (which I don't want to happen because I would still love to learn economics, I just prefer Physics), so I reckon it would be wiser to ask about a course change once (if) I'm there in October? I really have no idea what to do tbh.

Additional info: I'm predicted A* in maths, further maths and physics, but just an A in economics (offer is A* in FM and economics, A in maths/physics - I know I will need 4A* if I want to be admitted and switch to Physical Natsci).

Your offer cannot be rescinded for asking questions like this. I think your concern is more that you won't meet your offer and so you worry that asking the question may stop them letting you in if that happens?
If you swap to Maths and Physics I would expect you would need to offer STEP. Suggesting to an admissions tutor you really want to do Phys NatSci without chemistry may be a tough sell at this stage.
Btw I got in with maths FM and Physics A* but only A in Economics and still got a first so I somewhat doubt you would be rejected if you got the same grades! (I was on an A*AAA offer in the first year of A* though.)

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Reply 1951

Goods

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Original post by Renascence

Hello all, I was hoping you guys could help me out with the situation I'm in right now.

So I've been offered a place at Cambridge to study Economics, but I'm now having doubts about what course I really want to do. To be honest, I only chose econ at the start of the year because I thought it would help my career options the most (and I do actually like it quite a lot), but I've realised the subject I'm most passionate about is Physics. I've looked up the Natsci course for Cambridge, and there are a lot of courses that really interest me throughout the 4 years. I know that this is quite a leap. I emailed Cambridge admissions a couple of weeks ago to see whether they could clarify my future options, but they just advised me to email my college now. What do guys think I should do? I fear my offer will be rescinded if I email my college (which I don't want to happen because I would still love to learn economics, I just prefer Physics), so I reckon it would be wiser to ask about a course change once (if) I'm there in October? I really have no idea what to do tbh.

Additional info: I'm predicted A* in maths, further maths and physics, but just an A in economics (offer is A* in FM and economics, A in maths/physics - I know I will need 4A* if I want to be admitted and switch to Physical Natsci).

Get four A*'s then ask about swapping after results day you'll probably have a mini interview with the relevant DoS and it will be at his discretion .

Swapping between arts happens more often, some mathmos swap into natsci but ive not heard of an econ natsci swap.

If you swapped to natural sciences you im not sure what options you would be able to take, you would probably end up having to do maths materials physics and computer science. Natural sciences is not just physics so if you want to study just physics you might as well reapply elsewhere rather than trying a bodged swap as.

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Reply 1952

username1162972

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Original post by Renascence

Hello all, I was hoping you guys could help me out with the situation I'm in right now.

So I've been offered a place at Cambridge to study Economics, but I'm now having doubts about what course I really want to do. To be honest, I only chose econ at the start of the year because I thought it would help my career options the most (and I do actually like it quite a lot), but I've realised the subject I'm most passionate about is Physics. I've looked up the Natsci course for Cambridge, and there are a lot of courses that really interest me throughout the 4 years. I know that this is quite a leap. I emailed Cambridge admissions a couple of weeks ago to see whether they could clarify my future options, but they just advised me to email my college now. What do guys think I should do? I fear my offer will be rescinded if I email my college (which I don't want to happen because I would still love to learn economics, I just prefer Physics), so I reckon it would be wiser to ask about a course change once (if) I'm there in October? I really have no idea what to do tbh.

Additional info: I'm predicted A* in maths, further maths and physics, but just an A in economics (offer is A* in FM and economics, A in maths/physics - I know I will need 4A* if I want to be admitted and switch to Physical Natsci).

You should post this in the ask an admissions tutor thread.

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Reply 1953

aprocrastinator

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Original post by Rhetorical Hips

Nah Caius has the best ratio (for medicine), one of the reasons I applied there :h:

biggest medical college too! :biggrin:

Original post by laurensmiley97

I agree haha, I was expecting some kind of big revelation or something but obviously there's not going to be much of a surprise factor when all they are basically saying is fewer people get offers than apply lol

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lol ikr???? the most exciting thing i noticed was that they gave out one more offer than usual for my course at my college and that there were significant drop in medicine applicants this year compared to previous years :grin:

Reply 1954

arc0205

PBS at Emma, 4 offers from 63, feeling proud ☺️ Anyone know how many places they will actually have, if I just miss my offer wondering if I would still have a chance!

Reply 1955

Doones

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Original post by arc0205

PBS at Emma, 4 offers from 63, feeling proud ☺️ Anyone know how many places they will actually have, if I just miss my offer wondering if I would still have a chance!