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PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Written Work For Downing College (Cambridge) and other questions

Hi guys, I am applying from the US and the written work thing is confusing me. Do you need teacher comments on your essay? Do they have to fill out the cover sheet? PLEASE ANYTHING HELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ASKING FOR HSPS. Also, do you guys know if you haven't gotten the 5's on the 5 AP tests if you can still get an interview? I am taking AP exams this year. Also, how do you submit predicted grades? (wait do they take ppl who took like 3 AP exams and got like 5 on all 3 and not 5?) THANKS!!!!!
Original post by pineappleyeonii
Hi guys, I am applying from the US and the written work thing is confusing me. Do you need teacher comments on your essay? Do they have to fill out the cover sheet? PLEASE ANYTHING HELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ASKING FOR HSPS. Also, do you guys know if you haven't gotten the 5's on the 5 AP tests if you can still get an interview? I am taking AP exams this year. Also, how do you submit predicted grades? (wait do they take ppl who took like 3 AP exams and got like 5 on all 3 and not 5?) THANKS!!!!!

Hello, im a UK student applying for the same course as you at Corpus Christi. First, I don't know much about applying from the US so it's best if you email your college's admissions officer for the answers for your questions. They typically respond quickly. Secondly, for the essay, you need to fill it in and the essay your submitting has to have teacher markings/comments on it and you have to fill in the cover sheet yourself. As for predicted grades your teacher is meant to send them along with your application reference.
Original post by Anonymous
Hello, im a UK student applying for the same course as you at Corpus Christi. First, I don't know much about applying from the US so it's best if you email your college's admissions officer for the answers for your questions. They typically respond quickly. Secondly, for the essay, you need to fill it in and the essay your submitting has to have teacher markings/comments on it and you have to fill in the cover sheet yourself. As for predicted grades your teacher is meant to send them along with your application reference.

Thank you! Would it put me at a disadvantage if I submit one without teacher comments? Also, are there other ways to send predicted grades (even now)? The teachers I would have asked for predicted grades would have been different from my referee and they didn't allow a bunch.
Original post by pineappleyeonii
Thank you! Would it put me at a disadvantage if I submit one without teacher comments? Also, are there other ways to send predicted grades (even now)? The teachers I would have asked for predicted grades would have been different from my referee and they didn't allow a bunch.


Yes it would put you at a disadvantage since the requirements is that the essay is to be marked with teachers comments. As for predicted i dont have much knowledge on that. You should email your college admissions officer as soon as possible
Original post by 晓Themis
Yes it would put you at a disadvantage since the requirements is that the essay is to be marked with teachers comments. As for predicted i dont have much knowledge on that. You should email your college admissions officer as soon as possible

TY! So sorry but do you think things will be fine if they say I can't send predicted grades anymore but they know I have tests pending this year? Idk.....
Original post by pineappleyeonii
TY! So sorry but do you think things will be fine if they say I can't send predicted grades anymore but they know I have tests pending this year? Idk.....


It’s okay. No need to apologise. I can’t say for sure since predicted grades are needed for Cambridge to make an offer.
Original post by 晓Themis
It’s okay. No need to apologise. I can’t say for sure since predicted grades are needed for Cambridge to make an offer.


Hmm I see. I talked to one of my friends who applied to Cambridge a few years ago. She said she didn’t send predicted grades but she got an interview and they told her to not worry about it as she was international and specifically from USA. So maybe it’s different for US students as we don’t even do predicted grades etc..? It’s so tricky tbh, but thank you for your help!! 🫶🏼
Original post by pineappleyeonii
Hi guys, I am applying from the US and the written work thing is confusing me. Do you need teacher comments on your essay? Do they have to fill out the cover sheet? PLEASE ANYTHING HELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ASKING FOR HSPS. Also, do you guys know if you haven't gotten the 5's on the 5 AP tests if you can still get an interview? I am taking AP exams this year. Also, how do you submit predicted grades? (wait do they take ppl who took like 3 AP exams and got like 5 on all 3 and not 5?) THANKS!!!!!

hey, i applied for downing. you don't need teacher comments, dw!
Original post by pineappleyeonii
Thank you! Would it put me at a disadvantage if I submit one without teacher comments? Also, are there other ways to send predicted grades (even now)? The teachers I would have asked for predicted grades would have been different from my referee and they didn't allow a bunch.

Dear Anonymous,
Excuse my unsolicited comment, but I felt I ought to point out that you have written 'your' instead of 'you're'. The possessive adjective 'your' is followed by a noun (your book, your work, etc.) whereas 'you're' is the contracted form of 'you are' (you're submitting = you are submitting). If you find it difficult to determine when to use 'your', try substituting another possessive (my, his, her, our, their) for it: if it works, 'your' is right! I hope that helps.
Original post by Anonymous
Dear Anonymous,
Excuse my unsolicited comment, but I felt I ought to point out that you have written 'your' instead of 'you're'. The possessive adjective 'your' is followed by a noun (your book, your work, etc.) whereas 'you're' is the contracted form of 'you are' (you're submitting = you are submitting). If you find it difficult to determine when to use 'your', try substituting another possessive (my, his, her, our, their) for it: if it works, 'your' is right! I hope that helps.

There really wasn't any need for this. It's not helpful and wasn't asked for. You also quoted the wrong comment. It may make you feel smart but it doesn't make you look it.
My comment was intended to be helpful to any reader, as the error is becoming common.

Any Oxbridge entrant should be able to write English correctly. There were other glaring errors but the your for you're was the most serious. After your ungracious reaction, however, I shall not offer any other service to this Student Room page, from which I shall 'unsubscribe' forthwith.
Original post by hohohominho
hey, i applied for downing. you don't need teacher comments, dw!


Different colleges require different things. I applied to Corpus and I needed to have teacher comments in mine

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