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Get Info Apply Request Information. It is occasionally leavened with a touch of humour, or avuncular kindness. One of the academics, looking at a file photo, sighs: "Oh he's young — he looks like one of the Bash Street kids.
Although a candidate's ethnicity is generally evident from his or her name and the photograph in their file, there is never any overt discussion of race. This seems surprising when both Oxford and Cambridge have been accused of being racially as well as socially exclusive. Geoff Parks, director of admissions at Cambridge, says later: "Race doesn't come up in its own right. It's inseparable from socio-economic factors. Cambridge admits a proportion of BME [ethnic minority] students that is above the proportion of the teenage population, [but] with 'low-participation' neighbourhoods we feel we're not meeting a relatively low target.
Many people who are first-generation British might also be living in low-participation neighbourhoods. At times, the procedure seems brusque; a life-changing decision made in a second. In fact, it is the end point of a long, intensive process of evaluating candidates. Most of those who apply are interviewed. And the interviews are designed to probe their knowledge deeply. For natural sciences, the interview has a practical bent, with candidates tackling problems under the gaze of the tutor.
Confidence is appreciated. Of one candidate, a boy from an academy school in Norfolk, a tutor says: "He managed to strike a balance between not being fazed by what's going on, and not being cocky either.
The sort of person …". Great emphasis is placed on exam performance, and the academics are keen to drill down into performance in individual modules. One notes approvingly of a candidate who has "done some hard units". There is far less interest than is popularly thought in extra-curricular activity. An academic remarks with bafflement that a candidate has "got his violin grades on there".
It is not just poor teaching — or a lack of teaching — that can wreck a candidate's chances. Their combination of subjects is also crucial. There is consternation about a candidate who is applying to read natural sciences without having either maths or biology; he is taking physics and chemistry but his third A-level is an arts subject.
The lack of maths rules him out for the study of physics. The absence of biology means he will struggle to be accepted as a biologist. The school is a "really ropey" one. One of the academics, a man in a grey fleece, comments: "I feel sorry for him, but I don't think we can fix the problem. The consensus is that they will "stick him in the pool". The "winter pool" is a third option — neither a straightforward offer nor an outright rejection.
It means the application is forwarded for consideration by other colleges. Strong candidates who are at risk of being squeezed out because they have applied to an over-subscribed college also get a second chance this way. The pool takes place in early January, around three weeks after the college decision meetings.
Admissions tutors from all the Cambridge colleges gather in two rooms at Newnham College, and examine the pooled candidates' folders again. Please note:. You can also find out about completing the SAQ and application dates and deadlines. Most applicants are required to take a written admission assessment , either pre-interview or at interview, if interviewed. Some applicants will also be asked to submit examples of their written work. Everyone with a realistic chance of being offered a place is invited to attend an interview.
If you decide to apply, you can find videos and full information on what to expect and how to prepare, in our interviews section. Please contact the admissions office at any College or the Cambridge Admissions Office for more information. Participant data and booking policies. Teachers and Parents. International students. Disabled students.
Mature students. Care leavers and estranged students. Search site. However, for most courses, applicants are asked to take a test as part of the application. Most tests are held at schools or colleges before an interview. Applicants must be registered well in advance for tests by their assessment centre. At Oxford, candidates for the graduate entry medicine course A and biomedical sciences BC98 also require this test.
Ensure you note the correct date for taking this test. Oxford requires applicants to take written tests before an interview in most other subjects. Please note that separate registration is required in many cases. Cambridge requires applicants to take pre-interview tests for around half of its courses.
For other subjects, Cambridge requires a written test to be taken while at the university for the interview if interviewed. You will not need to register for at-interview assessments. Both universities require some applicants to send samples of written work as part of their application.
Both will expect this work at different times, so double check the deadline when you apply to ensure you don't miss it. Contextual data, or contextualisation, allow your circumstances to be considered and is intended to give a fair platform for applicants from differing backgrounds. While your academic performance is still the key factor, contextualisation allows the university to assess how your school performs, your socio-economic background and more.
You can also provide this information as part of your personal statement, or the teacher's academic reference. Both Cambridge and Oxford consider school performance and your location to help place your educational achievement into context when assessing applications. Your academic record may also be considered in the context of the normal performance of your school.
If you're applying to Cambridge, your teachers can submit an Extenuating Circumstances form directly to the university, providing information relating to your circumstances. Oxford encourages teachers to include details of any special circumstances or other relevant information in the main UCAS application.
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