Official 2018 Cambridge Postgraduate Offer Holders

Well, it has been a long journey but I am just awaiting the final “Confirmed” stage on my offer. It’s been a nerve wracking 4 months as I finished my undergrad and came up just shy of the GPA requirement; thankfully everything went through.

Looking forward to joining fellow Hughesians or anyone studying the MPhil Innovation Strategy and Organization at JBS!! If only some funding came through now 😂

It says on Self-Serve that it takes up to 5 days “once the conditions disappear from the page”. Today is either day 0 or day 1, I’ll let you know when it happens! (Being in Canada, everything changes during the middle of the night leaving surprises every morning haha)

Yeah, it has been quite 2 days since all the conditions in my page have been completed, so I’m waiting them to totally disappear for my place at Cambridge get confirmed.

OK, keep in touch on latest news

Oi!

An EU student here. I was accepted at Girton and when I asked about the costs of living (because the doc they sent us says the cost does not include maintenance), they told me it does and that it is an estimate, not what everyone ends up paying. So, I was wondering if anyone's looking into living off campus on their own and whether it's financially significantly better than living in a college room? If yes, I'm down to room with ya! :-)
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Hello guys,

I´ve got an offer with the condition that I get a 67% in my Masters degree. My current University doesn´t use numerical criteria at all, only uses Fail,Pass and Distinction. I won´t be getting a D so which one of the two ways of procedure would you recommend:

1) Ask for a more suitable condition based on my marking criteria
2) Let it be and hope that they will take the P as a 67%

Note that my P can easily be a 50 or a 69.
Thank you for your time.

Oi!

An EU student here. I was accepted at Girton and when I asked about the costs of living (because the doc they sent us says the cost does not include maintenance), they told me it does and that it is an estimate, not what everyone ends up paying. So, I was wondering if anyone's looking into living off campus on their own and whether it's financially significantly better than living in a college room? If yes, I'm down to room with ya! :-)
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My landlord asked me for a rough figure for when I’ll be moving out. My acceptance says my course starts on October the first and Magdalene hasn’t given me any indication of when I can or cannot move in (I still haven’t completed the financial undertaking or been offered a room). I was wondering whether anyone could provide a rough guess of whether I should make my way to Cambridge a few days before October the first or should be the a week or two in advance? What have people heard or done in the past? Thanks in advance

I just had a confirmation that two recommendations from my department for my admission had been sent to the Faculty’s degree committee for review. They should meet in the coming days and I should have an answer by the end of next week or the beginning of the one after. Apparently they make decisions on the basis of these recommendations, whether offers or rejections. Anyone at that stage or who knows more about it?

They benchmark applications between the various degree programmes they manage. So if MPhil A has a particularly strong cohort and MPhil B has a slightly weaker cohort, then they might vire a few places from B to A, which would mean rejecting MPhil B candidates who had made it to this stage. It's not a certainty, but there's a stronger likelihood of getting through this stage.

And that would stand for the different MPhils of one department?

Yes, exactly that.

No matter how small the MPhil is compared to the rest of the department or even the university?
I mean would they run the risk of losing their only applicant to an MPhil because he is weaker than the rest of the department?

Because running the course with only one applicant is financial nonsense? Because Cambridge is about academic excellence? The smaller the course, the more chance they wouldn't run it unless the academic quality was stellar, financially it wouldn't make sense unless you could recoup elsewhere with academically excellent student. Cambridge never 'makes up the numbers' it vires numbers to accept quality elsewhere.