Where Students who turn down Cambridge University end up

Original post by FloralHybrid

How is university of Oxford one, as you can’t apply to both in the same round?

Possibly an organ scholar.

Original post by NHSFan

For Graduate Entry Medicine, you can apply for both Oxford and Cambridge.

Ah ha! (But the above is true too.)

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Original post by C_Richards99

For 2017 entry, 96 applicants who received an offer from Cambridge turned own their place in favour of other universities in the UK.

The 5 most popular universities were:

Imperial College London (5 of which were for Imperial's Engineering courses)

University of Warwick (7 of which were for Warwick's Physical Sciences courses - most likely Maths)

University of Edinburgh (6 of which were for Edinburgh's Biological Sciences courses)

University of Bath (4 of which were for Bath's Biological Sciences courses)

Durham University (3 of which were for Durham's Arts & Humanities courses)

Nice data!

In context, there were 3,328 home applicants who had an Offer in 2017 - so 2.9% rejected Cambridge for a different UK university.

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Original post by akbar0123

Why would anyone turn down Cambridge to go to Keele?

Hiya

That was me actually. :colondollar:

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A Rolling Stone

Original post by 04MR17

Hiya

That was me actually. :colondollar:

Original post by akbar0123

Why would anyone turn down Cambridge to go to Keele?

so from a bit of stalking it appears you Rejected Cambridge for Durham with Keele as your insurance... didn't make the terms of your firm so you ended up at Keele :O

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For the common institutions being preferred over Cambridge (in the context of this data and nothing else), most of their departments lie either in the sciences (biological, technology, physical), OR in the arts, humanities, social science bracket. Only University of Manchester from what I can see spans both.

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sureofit

As an interesting aside, I firmed my Cambridge offer for this year. My insurance is St Andrews. Except I genuinely prefer St A’s in terms of course and city.... 🤔

But I’d be very happy to go to either, so 😊

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Original post by CollectiveSoul

so from a bit of stalking it appears you Rejected Cambridge for Durham with Keele as your insurance... didn't make the terms of your firm so you ended up at Keele :O

Excellent stalking work. :yy:

And given my circumstances on results day, I'm very glad I didn't accept Cambridge's offer. :smile:

My signature has a link to the thread I made about me rejecting Cambridge. Ultimately the (single honours) course I applied for was different to the (joint honours) one I wanted to study. Which Cambridge had offered until 2017 entry. :frown:

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Zacken

Original post by C_Richards99

University of Warwick (7 of which were for Warwick's Physical Sciences courses - most likely Maths)

Surprised by any of the data?

Initially surprised at the number of Warwick ones, but makes sense in retrospect: I suppose STEP makes for quite an intimidating offer. It's a pity we lose people that early.

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Original post by 04MR17

Only University of Manchester from what I can see spans both.

Edinburgh?

Although I expect a fair number of those choosing Scottish universities may be Scottish and looking at the fees.

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Original post by Doonesbury

Edinburgh?

Although I expect a fair number of those choosing Scottish universities may be Scottish and looking at the fees.

1 Edinburgh from the Arts and Humanities block, and 0 from the Hum&Social Science.

Edinburgh are spread across the science categories quite well but I'm looking at this as a more 50/50 arts/science than the 6ish and a half categories that make up Cambridge's School system.

And yes, I would imagine that'd be why Strathclyde features, amongst others.

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