Cambridge Maths Students and Applicants

Hi nuodai. Thanks for this. I've read the Handbook and everything I can find. The issue is still very much "on the edge" for me. I think I'd do fine with the departmental contact, and welcome a diminishing in my DOS's role - but how much scope would my DOS still have for messing things up if he wanted to? There probably isn't a good answer to that! If he did his usual stuff, though, since a DOS is a college matter, I'd be complaining to the people I've already complained to (i.e. at my college), when I got pooh-poohed. Rather than face this, I'd prefer to do a Master's somewhere else. On the other hand, if I do Part III, maybe my DOS would stop caring about exerting an influence, and leave most of the job of any required involvement relating to my maths studies to my departmental contact. (In which case he's very welcome!) There's hardly any way to tell, so it's a difficult one!

Maybe one thing to ask is - how much work does a DOS have to do (other than seeing you at start and end of term) when they've got a student in Part III? If the answer is 'not much', this may bode well :-)

I couldn't really give you an answer without speculating -- all I know is what's put in the Part III Handbook etc. If you don't mind me asking, what's your DoS actually done?

Maybe one thing to ask is - how much work does a DOS have to do (other than seeing you at start and end of term) when they've got a student in Part III? If the answer is 'not much', this may bode well :-)

Your DoS still has an official role, unfortunately. You submit your exam choices and essay through them. If you want to take supervisions (as opposed to the usual examples classes), this is probably arranged through your DoS too, since the college has to pay for it. (On the other hand, the department pays for examples classes.)

You could try to change college for Part III – this is extremely unusual, and probably harder for a SLC/LEA-funded student than a self-funded student – but it has happened before.

What's the difference between the "basic" and "advanced" sign-up sheets for Part III courses? All courses seem to have them. (I'm not sure I remember the categories exactly right.)

That's up to the organiser of each study group.

What sort of things can it mean? How does a student decide whether to sign up for one or the other?

Hey, I'm a "soon-to-be" (STEP grades permitting) mathmo and I was just wondering how the STEP grades achieved before entry are generally distributed amongst the different degree classifications? For example, do the vast majority of people in 1st class territory hold S,S or do many people with 1,1/1,2 also get firsts? I'm aware of the strong correlation of STEP with tripos performance but I was interested in the extent of this correlation in your experience, as far as grades are concerned. Thanks.

Plenty of people with 1,1 get firsts, and plenty of people with S,S get 2:2s -- to be honest the correlation really is just a correlation, and I think the underlying causation has more to do with hard work than anything especially deep.

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You might find this link of interest: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/admissions/research/docs/prefective_effectiveness_of_metrics_in_admission.pdf

It gives a statistical analysis of the effectiveness of STEP in predicting tripos performance, compared with other admissions data

You might find this link of interest: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/admissions/research/docs/prefective_effectiveness_of_metrics_in_admission.pdf

It gives a statistical analysis of the effectiveness of STEP in predicting tripos performance, compared with other admissions data

Hi guys, i'm in year 12 at the moment and am considering applying to Cambridge to do maths. The main reason i'm a bit worried is that i only got 3A*s at GCSE, the rest were A's and I've heard that for Oxbridge GCSE's are usually wanted all A* (or there abouts). For my A2's im doing maths, further maths and physics, predicted A*A*A. I have qualified for the UKMT Olympiad before and I am part of the UKMT mentoring scheme, I'm also doing STEP. My question is really is it worth applying, is there a half decent chance I could get a place, I don't go to private school, im the first in my family to even go to uni, so I'm not at a massive advantage from that perspective, but it's somewhere i really would like to go. So what do people think?Worth applying or not??

Thanks

Hi guys, i'm in year 12 at the moment and am considering applying to Cambridge to do maths. The main reason i'm a bit worried is that i only got 3A*s at GCSE, the rest were A's and I've heard that for Oxbridge GCSE's are usually wanted all A* (or there abouts). For my A2's im doing maths, further maths and physics, predicted A*A*A. I have qualified for the UKMT Olympiad before and I am part of the UKMT mentoring scheme, I'm also doing STEP. My question is really is it worth applying, is there a half decent chance I could get a place, I don't go to private school, im the first in my family to even go to uni, so I'm not at a massive advantage from that perspective, but it's somewhere i really would like to go. So what do people think?Worth applying or not??

Thanks