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The "I've been pooled" thread

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Reply 1540
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Swires
I've not heard about many English offers either. (I am still holding out some hope lol)
Swires
I've not heard about many English offers either. (I am still holding out some hope lol)


Same, I am beginning to think that this time next year, I'll be swigging whiskey at the side of a road holding a sign saying, "Will rhyme for food."

I exaggerate, but there you go.

Has anyone here heard of anyone being fished for English?
roya
has anyone been fished for economics?? i havent seen one person who has yet....


wouldnt be able to link a source, but i think i have seen 1 or 2
Has anybody been taken out of the pool for MML? :biggrin:

No news today.... you've got to be both realistic and optimistic with this (if it's possible!) - hope for the best, but expect to be looking elsewhere.... that's how I'm trying to approach it anyway, Cambridge seems a bit of a distant dream all over again !! lol

mr_m
I find it very funny I was actually pooled after one interviewer asked me:
"So why exactly aren't you resitting History?"
Swiftly followed by
"And what happened to General studies?" :laughing:
Reply 1545
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commando
mr_maniac
Has anybody been taken out of the pool for MML? :biggrin:

No news today.... you've got to be both realistic and optimistic with this (if it's possible!) - hope for the best, but expect to be looking elsewhere.... that's how I'm trying to approach it anyway, Cambridge seems a bit of a distant dream all over again !! lol

mr_m


I saw one or two people, and one guy had his college changed on SAQ. No one else I know of.
Anyone here also applying to Durham/Warwick for English?

Its like waiting for a run away lover to call.
Reply 1547
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Swires
ItsLikeThat
Anyone here also applying to Durham/Warwick for English?

Its like waiting for a run away lover to call.


Yep - no news yet.
Reply 1548
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rickyn91
Have there been many people fished out who are wanting to do medicine?
ItsLikeThat
Same, I am beginning to think that this time next year, I'll be swigging whiskey at the side of a road holding a sign saying, "Will rhyme for food."

I exaggerate, but there you go.

Has anyone here heard of anyone being fished for English?


A couple of us have interviews at Murray Edwards, and I think I put in an earlier post that I know of people who have Eng interviews at Downing and Churchill.
Does anyone else feel like being pooled is akin to having mind tricks played on you?

Where's Nina when you need her.
rickyn91
Have there been many people fished out who are wanting to do medicine?


I know someone that was pooled to Fitz on Monday morning. :smile:
I'm sorry, but Cambridge really go about this the wrong way - they KNOW we care about getting in, so why do they spend so long fannying around?

Cruel treatment, if you ask me.
Reply 1553
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rickyn91
bibliotheque
I know someone that was pooled to Fitz on Monday morning. :smile:

So there havent been many pooled that you know of for medicine?
Reply 1554
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jcb914
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woodstock
I'm sorry, but Cambridge really go about this the wrong way - they KNOW we care about getting in, so why do they spend so long fannying around?

Cruel treatment, if you ask me.

You'd rather they rush and select the wrong people?
woodstock
I'm sorry, but Cambridge really go about this the wrong way - they KNOW we care about getting in, so why do they spend so long fannying around?

Cruel treatment, if you ask me.


It is cruel, and most of them probably realise that, but beyond being formal in the letters they send ("it is natural to feel intial dissapointment) I suppose they can't do anything else.

Still, its the difference between a quick death (outright rejection) and a drawn out one (being pooled). I just don't appreciate the false hope.
jcb914
You'd rather they rush and select the wrong people?



..........yes. Cos i'm a wrong person :wink:



OR just do it Oxford-style? Short, sharp - over by christmas
I've been really wound up by this constant waiting, now I've grown a bit numb to it.

We Englings, we need a break.
All this reinforces the idea that when I die I want to die quickly.
Reply 1559
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woodstock
..........yes. Cos i'm a wrong person :wink:



OR just do it Oxford-style? Short, sharp - over by christmas

There are pros and cons to both selection methods. Personally, I'd have hated to have been interviewed at a number of different colleges and had to stay over night at Oxford, Cambridge is "short and sharp" in terms of the interview process at least.

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