Cambridge shadowing scheme: Anyone applied or been to it already?

Omg i know too many people applying for this :frown:

Loads for medicine and the sciences, some for law, economics and politics.

Reply 61

:O Really? There's never more than one or two applicants to Cambridge from my school!

Reply 62

I wonder how exactly they pick people...
My dad went to university but my mum didn't.
My teacher asked whether I got EMA as well, so does that factor in do you reckon? (I don't get it, btw) :s-smilie:

Reply 63

^ I'm in almost the exact same position my mum went to a university and my dad didn't, and I don't qualify for the EMA, so I hope that doesn't factor. What percentage of applications are successful, do you know/think?

Reply 64

well they choose about 250 students, and last year about 1,600 people applied (source: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009121502) and since this year they "had a record number of applications" im guessing around 15% of applicants are successful.

Reply 65

lowways

I wonder how exactly they pick people...
My dad went to university but my mum didn't.
My teacher asked whether I got EMA as well, so does that factor in do you reckon? (I don't get it, btw) :s-smilie:

I reckon its more about the grades rather then social class etc.
Courses such as Medicine are probably the most subscribed so more competition there.

Reply 66

15%?! I though it would be more than that...

Reply 67

I found some stats a bit ago from....urrrr. Crap. My memory has eloped it appears :\ 2008 maybe. Or 2007. Or...It's not important, really, is it? :P
ANYWAY, I think I worked it out that about a quarter of the applicants got a place :/ I think there were 1000 applied and about 250ish got places....
not looking good ;D

Reply 68

Well, good luck to all of you! :biggrin:

Reply 69

It really depends, you never know...
Oxford are doing a similar thing but during july..check out their website, i think the application for that open in march, however their application is LONG, you even have to write up a mini personal statement.

Reply 70

Well, my grades don't look very good on the surface - 8As - but it's because here you can only do 8 subjects, and there's no such thing as A* :nah:

There was nowhere on the form to say if it was a different examination system, so I just put it in brackets at the bottom XD

Reply 71

oh which examination system did you do then?

Reply 72

Scottish Intermediate 2s :biggrin:

Reply 73

Well then your grades are prefect, you have every chance of getting in...GOOD LUCK!! :biggrin:

Reply 74

My teacher told us that to stand a chance you have to have grades above your year group average; outperform your peergroup. For example, the average person in my year at GCSE got 2.6 A*s, so to outperform your peergroup you'd have to have 3 or, preferably, more A*s, if you see what I mean :]
How Cambridge would know that however is beyond me...

Reply 75

Wait, they can't know that! Can they??

Okay, now I need to somehow discover the average performance of my years group...

Reply 76

It's probably bullcrap to be fair :P She had to go away to find out so goodness knows whether it's freely available info or not :s-smilie:

Reply 77

Ah, this information is impossible to find!

Reply 78

misshape

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I don't stand a chance if it's on grades :p:

I got 3A*s, 3As and 2Bs, but it was the best in my year (of 30 people...).

But then neither of my parents went to universty and I get EMA, so maybe that might make up the comparative crappness off my grades :o:

Reply 79