The Official 2017 Cambridge Applicants Thread [part 3]

Now you're just insulting your own kind

@k.russell @NeverLucky @Forecast what did you guys have in your gcse's?

It will be as soon as they can, ie. much nearer to the 14th than the 31st...

I feel like waiting this extra time for an answer might actually be the death of me. Does anyone have any decision dates for pooled applicants who went for re-interview? I know it's technically 14th-31st of January, but I was just wondering if anyone knew if it'll be earlier/later into that period?

Pretty bad, but not terrible given the school I went to (think I was the top performing male in my year, though not certain).
2A*, 7A & 2B in a cohort of which 47% achieved 5 A*-C inc. eng & maths

Have people's UCAS been updated? (Especially those people who applied to Caius)

As someone with 2 A*'s only (same as you) at gcse that gives me hope lol
Looks like I'll be applying to Girton as well next year 😂😂😂

As someone with 2 A*'s only (same as you) at gcse that gives me hope lol
Looks like I'll be applying to Girton as well next year 😂😂😂

My law reinterview's were yesterday. My interviewers sort of gave the impression that their decisions are basically made once the candidates walk out of the room, but they did say they aren't officially allowed to make the decisions until the 14th (i.e.: speak to other members of college as it's not their discretion only as to who gets in etc, and there were other applicants still to be interviewed) but she said I will most likely hear on monday at the latest. So if you're being reinterviewed at Selwyn I think a quick turnaround looks likely.

I can't speak for the other colleges, or even other subjects, but I think they're pretty aware that we're all a little tired of waiting, and would very much like to put us out of our misery sooner rather than later. Good luck!

5/5 for Caius communication, thanks for tagging me on the post informing that EUs get letters..
I am just so pissed about this

Haha, sounds like I should've asked! I was going to at the end of my interview yesterday, but it completely slipped my mind... I'm in the same situation as you, so hopefully, what you've just said applies to me equally!

I can definitely wait until Monday - I just hate waiting indefinitely. Good luck to you, also!!

Check out the Gonville & Caius Students and Applicants forum. Someone (current student I think) said they checked with admissions 2 hours ago and they were then sending out EU applicant emails, so that seems to contradict was I was told earlier. In any case, we still have heard nothing.....

Ahaha, I didn't even ask, I was too busy asking what the actual answer to the questions were (out of curiosity, because I regretted not doing so last time). I think the person before me must've asked so that may have been why they were eager to tell me.

Thank you, secretly hoping they let us know tomorrow, but I think that's wishful thinking haha!
Wait does that mean you were reinterviewing for law at Selwyn yesterday?!

Check out the Gonville & Caius Students and Applicants forum. Someone (current student I think) said they checked with admissions 2 hours ago and they were then sending out EU applicant emails, so that seems to contradict was I was told earlier. In any case, we still have heard nothing.....

As someone with 2 A*'s only (same as you) at gcse that gives me hope lol
Looks like I'll be applying to Girton as well next year 😂😂😂

Not natsci and not an offer holder (or a rejectee) but I got 3 A*s, 3 B's, 2 C's, 1 D and 1 E at GCSE.

Okay I got an offer as a EU student but I'm starting to get very worried because I slowly realize that I don't really know how to speak English.

The GCSE scoring system they use at Cambridge, if you're interested, is based off the best 8 GCSE's - so for me that's 2A* and 6A and for @NeverLucky it's just 8A* (got lucky in yr.11, clearly...) then it's 8 points for an A* and 7 for an A and so on, so I'm on 58/64 and NeverLucky is on 64/64. I think what they interested in is your score compared with the average of the school at which you sat your GCSE's, so for my school 58 is probably a pretty decent score.

What if we didn't do GCSEs. I did some weird foreign thing that can't really be compared to anything else. I got in though, so I'm thinking perhaps they just ignored it?


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I feel like waiting this extra time for an answer might actually be the death of me. Does anyone have any decision dates for pooled applicants who went for re-interview? I know it's technically 14th-31st of January, but I was just wondering if anyone knew if it'll be earlier/later into that period?