I got a Cambridge offer

[darthdevidem01]

Soleron said:

darthdevidem01 said:

CONGRAAAAAATS!!

So far I have had 2 interviews for medicine (nottingham & leicester) should find out if I have offers or not in march

waiting for interviews from UCL & Imperial College London (for medicine)

1 offer from University College London (UCL) for biomedical sciences......its conditional -- AAA, Their book said ABB was gonna be the offer but they have obviously become cocky after the new world rankings placed them 4th even ahead of oxford, the woman on the open day said "Due to high demand & our newfound strong worldwide position we feel giving offers AAA will benefit us as we will get the best students".....RIDICULOUS imho as they were then lying in their prospectus!

Biomedical sciences is my "insurance" option just in case I get rejected for medicine everywhere

so far soooo good!!!!!

BTw soleron 5 people from my school got into cambridge this year (down from 6 last year).

Medicine's a good course, hope you get offers. One person I know has a medicine offer (Cardiff), a few more are waiting to find out.

Similar numbers of people from my school too, for Oxbridge - 5 offers, 3 pooled.

UCL is a respected university; even if they made ABB offers it's on the basis that you're good enough to get 3 As anyway. Most people who do a 4 Medicine/1 Biomed split should be predicted that anyway. They're not better than Oxford though.

I hope so too

we had 10 applying to cambridge (no-one to oxford as no-ones gotten into oxford from our school since the last 10 years), 5 got in, none pooled (quite surprising)

1 BIG upset, I am shocked one person who I thought would get in like 99% DIDN'T get it!! Really shocked

I didn't think they were better than oxford, but these are the world rankings used each year, here is the link for the 2009 one

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/results

2009 rank	School Name	Country
1	HARVARD University	United States
2	University of CAMBRIDGE	United Kingdom
3	YALE University	United States
4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
5=	IMPERIAL College London	United Kingdom
5=	University of OXFORD	United Kingdom
7	University of CHICAGO	United States
8	PRINCETON University	United States
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (m...	United States
10	California Institute of Technology (calt...	United States

shows that they are......she used these on that day...actually this was a topic in our school a few months ago, some teachers said oxford saw its biggest drop ever or something, although after centuries of being in the top 3, a year going down to 5th is nothing to panic about imho

London is apparently very costly though, I haven't even looked at the cost aspect, do you get university accomodation for all your years?