Cambridge Applicants for 2012 entry

Or there could be less information and posting from home students at the minute because no one is hearing much yet, whereas international students are receiving interviews etc so you're hearing more from them.

A lot of the information is the same when the 'what should i wear to interview' etc questions start to appear.

Does anyone know (especially guys from robinson) when will they start sending requests for written assignments, essays or anything of the sort? Also when do they notify one if he is so lucky to attend an interview?

My email to Blyth was for naught, since I just realized I've been rejected for the Blyth scholarship

does practically everyone who applies to Queens' apply for deferred entry? I applied for 2012 and would like to change to deferred if this is the case (Queens' encourages deferred). Will this affect my chances of getting an interview cos i didnt defer?

No deadline has been specified as far as I am aware.

My email to Blyth was for naught, since I just realized I've been rejected for the Blyth scholarship

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Just heard from a tutor that the PPS course is changing from 2013 entry, anyone else heard anything?

Same. Even my friends are too! The NatSci guy who was shortlisted for Cambridge? Not shortlisted for Blyth. :'(

So sorry for all of us

Did anyone from your school got shortlisted?

I just stood there in shock when I read the email. I thought I would have been crying, but really, I think I accepted the fact that Blyth would shortlist private school kids more than public school kids. So, I was just sad all day instead.

I haven't heard from Cambridge except that "Would you be prepared to fly over to U.K" email. The guy from Blyth said that he would contact them, but I highly doubt it.

I think it's time for me to look at U of T and McGill and see their programs while hopelessly comparing them to Cambridge. I know I haven't been rejected by Cambridge yet, but if I have been rejected by Blyth... well you know.

I know we discussed this before, but are you now considering Cambridge sans Blyth?

well only two other people from my school applied; one was shortlisted by Blyth, but my friend was rejected as well :'(

I actually have been really emotional all day; so awkward

you got a reply from Blyth regarding interviews? that's good I guess... I still want to go through with the process; I was calculating costs today, and with tuition, room, board + college fee, it would amount to about $40000 CAD per year

I'm just so upset, especially since the guy who got shortlisted at my school doesn't even want to go to Cambridge; it's his backup for Yale.

Blyth

???

Could you please give me some more detail about Queens' supposedly preferring deferred entries over direct (2012) ones? I feel like I'm misunderstanding something.

Thank you.

Oh no, I meant that I was flat-out rejected by Blyth, like with all of my other friends. I think I didn't write my reply correctly.

Yeah I also calculated the cost as well today and used an online converter. OSAP wouldn't be able to give more than $5000-8000 for int'l schools. Bank loans.. I don't know, but I feel like it's all over for me
I hope we get an answer from Cambridge about our interviews though.

I still haven't cried yet, it's just so surreal. I think it needs to sink in. I understand what you're trying to say. Although I didn't cry, I was just out of it and depressed, I know I will sometime, just still in shock.

That's so unfair! I bet a lot of the shortlisted applicants are like that as well, not caring about wanting to go to Cambridge, but are pressured from their parents or like the idea of having it as a back up etc.

when I said emotional, I mean I actually have cried so much today. Like I cried in front of my history teacher twice today; so awkward

& yeah, my friend and I were both flat-out rejected by Blyth too

I'm not sure if they're going to bother replying to us about interviews since we've been rejected already...

I know, that IS so unfair. I want to go to Cambridge SO BADLY, and there he is, getting shortlisted when Cambridge is like his backup for Yale and the other Ivies.

I don't think they would discriminate against students that haven't taken a year out- they're just well known for being particularily positive about the benefits of students taking a year out and as being the only college (that I know of) that approves of maths applicants taking a gap year.

aww *hugs*

I feel as if I chose a wrong essay topic, and that I should have made a personal essay for the scholarship. Also, that they barely even took a glance at my application. All of these thoughts are popping up, but either way, the result is permanent...

All I know is that the Blyth guy won't reply because of us being rejected (it would be hard to believe), but he said that Cambridge will send them a list of shortlisted Canadian applicants (even those who were rejected from Blyth) on Friday (tomorrow *gulp*). So apparently another email from Blyth will be sent to us, and it will tell us if Cambridge has rejected us or not.
^ What I don't get from that is that Cambridge said that they would notify applicants around half of November. I guess I misread that.

I think it had to do with the huge press coverage from last years winners. There were only 100 applicants from last year, 25 were shortlisted. There were probably even more applicants this year because so many were interested in the "prestige" of it, so even higher expectations were set out.

I didn't catch any explanation there as to why it's a bad idea, just a motivational 'we're all in this together' speech which we've heard too many times.

Yes, in the end we're applying to the same place, but during that process I want relevant people who are in a similar situation saying relevant things that are interesting to read and that I can relate to.

This thread has turned to an international cry for help / make me feel better / ask questions that no one can precisely answer thread.

I've seen frequent posters disappear and even I'm posting less and less because this thread is turning boring. Hard to sort through all the posts and find who here in the UK has had invitations/responses/etcetc.

Really random that i clicked on this page and saw this, im obviously very bored! Im a current pps student and my DoS says they're changing it to human, social and political science(s). Apparently they spent a couple of hours debating about science being plural or not.

Its something do to with cutting down the education tripos (which i think is going to be cut for the year after next), and increasing the presence of the "social sciences " at cambridge. (really old source http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/1817 )

Its going to be exactly the same course, just there may be more "extra" papers to choose from or something. When it changed from SPS to PPS there was no actual change in the course, same thing is happening now.