Cambridge rejections/acceptances

Hi Alaric I am resigned to my fate, that I shall probably end up somewhere in London

and glad at the fact that I don't have to work so hard for my exams now...sigh.

Yeah you are. 8=B 5=H 11=LL and the 85 just makes it obvious. Plus, Bhall85 went for Maths at Girton too - wot a coincidence!

if you notics, 85ah11 joined in June, and Bhall85 joined in September, so if anything, Bhall85 copied off 85ah11.

isnt it bhaal85?

The defendent, member 3237, also known as "85ah11", joined on 6th June 2003 and is one of the oldest members (he just hasn't posted much, only amassing 20 posts to date). He is from Bolton, Lancashire. the "85" probably stands for his year of birth (1985), the "ah" probably stands for his initials (his name is Adam Halgarth) and the "11" i assume
Your Honour. This evidence shows to you that any rightful man would never confuse the two users, 3237 and 4458, as being one and the same user. it also shows that user 3237 DID NOT attempt to plagiarise the membername of member 4458. Case closed.

hiya,

ick, I don't think I could stand living in London myself. I mean I love the tube and the shops etc but it always just seems too big, too anonymous or something. One of my friends rejected his Clare offer the year I went to go to Imperial, despite the fact I thought he'd love it at Clare, and now he's having a brilliant time at Imp... so I guess it really doesn't matter much where you are as long as you make the best of it. Which I'm sure you will!

Where are you considering from the other places you applied now?


There is always that, it's probably a good idea to still get As (I'm still battling with my lazyness - was the worst compsci in my year at the last exams - need to do better this year ). It'll probably be a lot less stress in August too, I was a lot more stressed then than with the offer letter believe it or not - I barely talked to anyone for two days beforehand! (that did make the pub afterward all the more fun though!)
I guess your course where ever you end up will also be easier... which leaves more time for other cool stuff!

To give you a little perspective, I know 6 people from my year at school who were rejected by oxbridge - there was only one who was particularly annoyed after some time had passed and that was because they'd taken his girlfriend but not him! Everyone else seems to be enjoying themselves - I guess it's such a massive change in your life you forget where you thought you might be because you're too busy having fun or something!

Alaric.

I don't know how many people tend to be pooled, but do we not seem to have a disproportionate amount of people pooled on here?

Does seem like that a bit. How many Cambridge applicants do you think we have on here?

I don't know how many people tend to be pooled, but do we not seem to have a disproportionate amount of people pooled on here?

Yeah no kidding, it really does seem that way. I did read somewhere though that on average 1 in 6 applicants get pooled, and of those pooled, only 1 in 6 get offers.

I worked it out with the statistics they gave me. 1/4 of applicants are pooled, 1/4 accepted, 2/4 rejected.

Of those who've been pooled it's about 19% (1/5) who get a place. As theone mentioned, this greatly depends on your college, course etc.

I worked it out with the statistics they gave me. 1/4 of applicants are pooled, 1/4 accepted, 2/4 rejected.

Of those who've been pooled it's about 19% (1/5) who get a place. As theone mentioned, this greatly depends on your college, course etc.

Thanks very much Camford. Love your name by the way - very endearing!

It more depnds on the college that wants you, rather than the college that rejected you. I think if you were pooled from a big college, they are more likely to overlook your application as there will be many others with you. If you are pooled from a small cllege however, you may be the only one on the 'pile' and therefore more likely to get a look from the selectors.

It more depnds on the college that wants you, rather than the college that rejected you. I think if you were pooled from a big college, they are more likely to overlook your application as there will be many others with you. If you are pooled from a small cllege however, you may be the only one on the 'pile' and therefore more likely to get a look from the selectors.

Thanks!

Say, does anyone know if there's a table somewhere with information on the number of places there were and applicants for each subject and college? I'm curious to know what the actually numbers were hehe. The only thing i've seen on the website is the colour-coded applicants/places ratio.

Actually, I think it's also the "mark" they give you. Apparently (what the admissions tutor was saying to me) the unversities and colleges use a scoring system, which takes into account grades, references and most importantly interviews. After interview, everyone ends up with a score, and the college takes people they like - ie people with the highest scores, and then pool a certain number of those with high scores, but not high enough for them. So it's possible that if this is constant across colleges (which I think it might be) then colleges wanting someone from the pool might just look at the top scores out of all the people pooled, regardless of college.