Cambridge Offer Holders 2015 thread

You don't need to do anything - your college will allocate you a room for first year, if you are able to give a preference then they will contact you before you arrive in October with the information for it

Whether you get any choice on your room depends entirely on the college, but there will be a room for you, it isn't like sorting halls elsewhere. They should be getting in touch with you in the next few days though with information regarding stuff like accommodation afaik.

True, but of roughly £40 per paper about £2 goes to marker ... GREEDY exam boards and their profit margins are at fault. EDEXCEL are among the worst. Most expensive exam entries and remarks and highest profits...

Did Warwick accept the C?

Hmmmm... I'd never have thought law would be specified. Especially seeing as it's one they prefer less

I also have an A from last year so I only needed 2As this year, which I got and the C didn't matter


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So you got A*A*A? How come Cambridge didn't accept this? Is it because they wanted the three a-levels in one year?

They usually do as they want to make sure an applicant can cope with the amount of work they'll need to do.

So you got A*A*A? How come Cambridge didn't accept this? Is it because they wanted the three a-levels in one year?

Yep- my offer explicitly stated it was for English lit, law and maths so I presume that was the case


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Possibly......but they have to set at a level that won't encourage too many people to request remarks or they'd be inundated with millions and millions of requests, probably more for humanities/arts subjects because the answers can not be as objective as maths/science.
It has to be the level which makes you think very carefully if it's worth the price or not. A bit like the admission fee for the viewing floor of The Shard (though I think that's a proper rip off. )

But if it's true a re-marker is getting such a small proportion, that's unfair....

I also have an A from last year so I only needed 2As this year, which I got and the C didn't matter


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So far I only got an email from my college, but nothing has changed on track. Can I still go celebrate?

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Just to let you know and thanks for all your help yesterday.

Durham rejected me as a near-miss. I got 38 765 but they wanted 38 666. They didn't even bother replying to any of my emails or picking up the phone. Just did it over Track at 17:30 yesterday.

That meant I was slow into clearing. All the courses I was interested are full now. The lady on the phone at Exeter said (regarding my grades) "wow, that's high! Why are you in clearing?" I was like .........................

Cambridge still haven't said anything, but I'm expecting a rejection later on today. Need to begin planning my gap year I suppose.