Cambridge rejections/acceptances

What is the time in the UK now? Should I be expecting a reply fax from Cambridge or should I forget it? Lolz.. sorry about my anxious posts.

Woah! All unis are free! Yayz.. lucky you. When I go to the UK, I have to pay about 25,000 pounds a year for tuition + accomodation. And in Malaysian ringgit (my nationality) though not where I'm living now... it's 1 pound to 6.6 ringgit. Lolz........

SO you can imagine.

I'm considered international too, and it is expensive, but not that expensive, about £13,000 a year including tuition, accomodation and living expenses.

which college are you waiting to hear from?

Heya Have you got their results as well? And what is BGS? Lolz.. I'm slow.

Downing

BGS is the Board of Graduate Studies. The admissions office there is extremely painful to deal with, although most of the staff there I've spoken to have been very nice at a personal level.

Yeah... I've got the result. I've just received an offer from St. John's to read for a CPGS (-> PhD, hopefully) in semiconductor physics. I only received the offer letter 20 days after it was dated, which gives you an indication of how slow Cambridge are at international mail.

I hear that competition for law at Downing is quite high... is this so?

I know this is the last think you probably want to think about right now, but you must have done a fair bit of investigating before you settled on Downing. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on whether I should recommend it to my friend, who is applying to read for a PhD in the sciences and has asked me for college recommendations.

It's mostly theory and history. It's the most academic music course in the country and excludes practical musicianship in all but one module, I think in Year 3. You have to be able to do loads of harmony and counterpoint and harmonise at the keyboard in the interview AND analyse an unseen score.

At my interview I got a score by Ravel to talk about - and we talked about Schoenberg for quite a while too.

I asked about that at interview because lessons at other unis mostly come as part of the package. I will be stuffed if I don't get financial help for lessons. My interviewer told me 'As long as it's legal, we'll pay for it!' Mind you, he was from Trinity so they can afford to throw their money around. I don't know how I'd get on at another college. I've applied for an instrumental award and was going to apply for a Choral Award too (Sidney is one of those that does it when you're there and not in Sept. )

If I dont get into Cam I shall probably take the Royal Holloway option (and doss for the rest of the year on a 3 Bs offer!!) but I really liked the Cam course because I am the sad git who actually likes doing harmony and counterpoint!!

r u sure!

when i had choral award auditions im sure this year that it was their first time in the auditions, im sure cos i think i spoke 2 the organ scholars!

Yes, it was their first year auditioning for choral scholars, but you can audition for the choir when you're actually there too: I think they're only taking about 4 choral scholars starting in 2004, it's still mostly voluntary.

yep thats right, they said thy were only addmitting a few!

so did u say you had an offer 2 read music, i cant stand this waiting although i assume that i have not got in tho!

Woah so you ahven't got a reply yet? Boo

yep thats right, they said thy were only addmitting a few!

so did u say you had an offer 2 read music, i cant stand this waiting although i assume that i have not got in tho!

Nonono, I'm not doing music! I'm a NatSci, I just happen to be in the choir so I know the organ scholars and the music people quite well Did your letter say they were still considering you? There's always hope! I don't know how the pooling system works very well but I'd guess they're trying to see if they can arrange an extra place to take you on...