The Official Cambridge Winter Pool 2013 Thread (includes FAQ and Status Reports)

So does that mean if we were reinterviewed and have heard no news there is still chance of an offer...? :/

I was pooled from Caius for English. Still waiting to hear back though.

So does that mean if we were reinterviewed and have heard no news there is still chance of an offer...? :/

So does that mean if we were reinterviewed and have heard no news there is still chance of an offer...? :/

Maybe. If other people who were interviewed at the same college as you for the same course have posted saying they've got offers, then probably not sorry... If other people who were interviewed at the same college as you for the same course still haven't heard anything, then there is probably still a chance. But I think the longer we wait the more likely it is that it's a rejection...

anyone with any economics info please post something or private message me. i still haven't heard anything and i wasn't even called back for interview

Maybe. If other people who were interviewed at the same college as you for the same course have posted saying they've got offers, then probably not sorry... If other people who were interviewed at the same college as you for the same course still haven't heard anything, then there is probably still a chance. But I think the longer we wait the more likely it is that it's a rejection...

Anybody re-interviewed at Magdalene and heard anything yet? :/ Sigh

That's obviously not true as some people are waiting to hear from colleges who have given out both rejections and offers so far. People were getting offers up until at least 20th January last year, all this overanalysing is pointless. X

iamsherlocked's post related specifically to re-interviewed people, not those who have heard nothing at all since being pooled. Also remember that the subject in question adds another dimension here - some clearly take longer (Nat Sci and Medicine for example) than others to agree the final outcomes.

Have you had a look on last years pool thread to see when your college responded to applicants they'd reinterviewed?
I'm my case (Girton) most people didn't hear anything until the end of what would be this week so I'm assuming I've still got a 50% chance until then! That's if they're as slow this year, anyway.

Yes but I know that at the college who reinterviewed me for my subject NatSci some people have already heard post reinterviewed both good and bad and yet some have not heard at all

just an update to say I received an offer from Robinson via letter this morning

best of luck to those waiting for news

Yes, which may mean that the admissions tutors have made further progress towards a final shortlist for the last few offers, or that they have made their decisions and we are waiting for the college/s concerned to communicate them.

just an update to say I received an offer from Robinson via letter this morning

best of luck to those waiting for news

What was this for and when did you hear? I was re interviewed and am still waiting for the result!

You know, i read this and i was like wow

it's nice to see Oxford doing something like this, but what you mean is that if you get rejected you get rejected? no second chances?

(I chose Cambridge due to the fact that I was introduced to it when I was in Form 2 and I found it brilliant and also the fact that some upper classmen of mine are at Oxford and I didn't want to be in their shadow. However, reading your post as shifted my Cambridge vs Oxford bar towards the right. I'll definitely reconsider if all my other choices reject me)

Thanks for the post

Pooled, then drowned international applicant

I did

Thank you so much for such a helpful and insightful post.

As for telling Cambridge..... every year I consider whether to contact them and have a chat with them about how dreadful this process is. Maybe I should email the CAO with a link to this thread (and the ones from previous years) and a couple of very large question marks. I have no doubt that admissions tutors work long and hard during the Pool and that they do their best to make the process as fair as they can. What I do take issue with is how there is no consistent (and enforced) standard for the timing and nature of communications with the applicants, so that - for instance - some colleges are allowed to be so cavalier in their attitudes towards applicants that it's been known for news of a rejection to turn up on Track before the unfortunate has received their personal letter. That, in my view, after everything that these applicants have been through, is totally shameful and not worthy of a world-class university - well, actually, not worthy of any university at all.

/rant