The "I've been pooled" thread

what does it mean if your saq says your account is no longer active?? was just reinterviewed and waiting for outcome...

Terranmini is from Lancashire. WooWoo.

What have you applied for and which college were cruel enough to throw you into the abyss that is the winter pool?

Which college are you at by the way?

Thanks, if not then I'll reapply. If you guys were in my shoes, got a rejection and wanting to reapply would you go for the same college or a different one? The only advantage I can see is that the same admissions tutors would be interviewing me. However, I only realised over the last few weeks I applied to the most competitive college for my subject!

Is the Cambridge college system different to the Oxford one (i'm not sure if anyone here would know)? I'm pretty sure that with Oxford, it doesn't matter which college you apply to because you are interviewed to get into the course you applied for and not the college. So if you are accepted for the course, but not by the college, due to space constraints, you are allocated to another college (at least that's what I think it is like from what i've read).

Nope Cambridge isn't like that. You have to be accepted for the course at your college, or you are pooled or rejected. If another college needs, say, linguists, then they'll look at the linguists from the pool and pick one.

Oxford seems similar to the Durham system, in that once the department accepts you, you're more or less in.

Wow, the Cambridge system is not of my cup of tea. Do you know if the colleges (in general) are larger then, so more offers can be given?

Wow, the Cambridge system is not of my cup of tea. Do you know if the colleges (in general) are larger then, so more offers can be given?

The colleges that give more offers have more applicants to compensate.

Same... can't log into SAQ and was re-interviewed on thursday... I'm sure it doesn't really mean anything... and at most it means that we've been rejected.

Wow, the Cambridge system is not of my cup of tea. Do you know if the colleges (in general) are larger then, so more offers can be given?

The added twist here is that not all colleges seem to favor the same subject balance. So, despite what they may say on the website, it would be most important to review past admission stats for your particular subject for colleges you are interested in. THIS IS A BIG LESSON I AM LEARNING NOW.

I got my rejection letter today (Christ's). Since my SAQ had been with my original college since pooling and I'd heard nothing since, it wasn't a huge surprise.

My interviews seemed to go very well I thought - at the end of one of them I was told that I'd impressed him and although he couldn't guarantee anything at all he hoped I got a place, so I was expecting then that if I got pooled I'd find one.