Top 5 Cambridge colleges for Law that favours private schools

Does anyone know which 5 Cambridge colleges, who takes more private schools students for Law? Can’t seem to find statistics anywhere?

Reply 1

melancollege

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All colleges look at all applications contextually. You are unlikely to find the statistics for law by college as the numbers for subjects within a college are so small that you could begin to identify individual students

Reply 2

Muttley79

Original post by Anonymous

Does anyone know which 5 Cambridge colleges, who takes more private schools students for Law? Can’t seem to find statistics anywhere?

No college should favour private schools students - totally wrong.

Reply 3

threeportdrift

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Original post by Anonymous

Does anyone know which 5 Cambridge colleges, who takes more private schools students for Law? Can’t seem to find statistics anywhere?

None of them 'prefer private school students'. Google 'Cambridge undergraduate tableau' and you can find all the data they release there.

All Colleges will be aiming to achieve at least the declared target for state-school students, but it's also a matter of the relative quality of applicants.

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Reply 4

Stiffy Byng

The idea that Cambridge discriminates unfairly against applicants from private schools is a myth propagated by some right wing media, just as the idea that Cambridge is not for working class people is a myth propagated by some left wing media. Most Cambridge undergraduates come from broadly similar socio-economic backgrounds. They are mostly middle class people and most but not all of them come from relatively affluent areas and have attended private schools or high quality state schools, often those which are selective. There are a few people from very wealthy backgrounds, and a few more from disadvantaged backgrounds, but most of the students are yer typical middle class kids.

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 5

lalexm

Original post by Anonymous

Does anyone know which 5 Cambridge colleges, who takes more private schools students for Law? Can’t seem to find statistics anywhere?

As per https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/publications/ug_admissions_statistics_2023_cycle.pdf

...some colleges such as Emms, Caius, Magdalene, Robinson, Trinity have a higher proportion of private students than the uni average, but they also have a higher proportion of private school applicants. There is neither favouritism nor discrimination against private school applicants in the Cambridge selection process.

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