<p>Post your UK decisions here.</p>
<p>I am happy to begin.</p>
<p>UCAS 2010</p>
<p>Oxford - PPE at St Peter's - Unconditional - firm, of course :D
LSE - Govt and Econ - Rejected
LSE - Philosophy and Econ - Waiting
Warwick - Economics, Politics, and Int'l Studies - Conditional (weird)
St Andrew's - Economics and IR - Unconditional</p>
<p>Christ’s College Cambridge. Pooled. :(</p>
<p>^ You received mail already? And yes I live in California as you guessed on TSR forums.</p>
<p>@member, how do you get an unconditional offer? Is it specific to subjects only?</p>
<p>You get unconditional offers when you have achieved their entry requirements already. All subjects give them.</p>
<p>@Derivate: I emailed Christ’s and said that since it would take forever for mail to get here, would you please send me my decision. I emailed them around 5 EST last night and the email came a little before 5 in the morning. Tosay, I was running late for school, didn;t get a chance to look, so I checked at lunch. It was a bad idea.</p>
<p>Email your college. They should respond quickly. I hope you have better luck than I!</p>
<p>Pooled =/</p>
<p>I doubt I will get in from here on out. Trinity was my top college choice, I really don’t know if I want to go to another college in Cambridge.</p>
<p>Especially for math, I don’t think there will be too many spots + the chances of Trinity taking me back is slim to none.</p>
<p>Trinity won’t take you back, they will have filled all their spots.</p>
<p>But seriously there are lots of downsides to Trinity. Yes you’ll be around geniuses and future Field’s medallists but I’ve heard it can get quite cliquey with all the Olympiad people sticking together. Also it’s a very middle class college. It has the most private schooled students of any Oxbridge college. The porters wear bowler hats! Lool. There are other colleges which are more relaxed, have a better social scenes, and have things like 24 hour libraries which Trinity don’t have.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>Thanks. I really liked Trinity though.</p>
<p>Looking at previous admission statistics, 180 applied to Trinity for Maths, 50 got offers. Of the ones pooled, 25 got offers from other colleges. If Cambridge’s statement that “one in six are pooled” holds, it seems most of Trinity’s poolees for maths get offers elsewhere.</p>
<p>Which leads me to ask – does Trinity pool 1 in 6, or does Trinity simple pool everyone and reject a minimal amount of applicants?</p>
<p>In other words, what are my chances of being fished as a Trinity maths poolee?</p>
<p>Lastly, will reading maths at a different college at Cambridge affect the level of education/supervision?</p>
<p>^No. You’ll attend the same lectures, and you’ll have a good tutor, no matter what college you attend.</p>
<p>How many applicants do the colleges normally reject, or do colleges normally pool the unsuccessful due to autopooling?</p>
<p>So how rare is pooling? Will I be fished out?</p>
<p>From the pool document attached to emails/sent with letters, it seems that chances are from 1/25 to 1/20. But since spaces are filling up with every call, our chances are worse now. The longer time goes on, the less likely it is one will be fished. The pool document said it was basically over after the 16th.</p>
<p>Look, fishing from the pool only ended on what, 7th January? It’s only been a few days. Loads of people in the UK haven’t heard yet, and you are int he US. Your chances haven’t gone down significantly yet.</p>
<p>Fishing ends on the 7th!?!?!? I thought 16th! Plus there is email, so if one was fished, they would be contacted relatively quickly regardless of their location.</p>
<p>I was fished today! By Murray Edwards for linguistics. I don’t know the conditions yet. It’s new, which I could live with, and all women, which I’m not too sure about. But today, I’m just going to be very, very happy.</p>
<p>^ Nice! Haha, I had assumed you were a guy, so when I read this, I laughed for a while :D</p>
<p>It would be really interesting for a guy to live at an all girl college though…</p>
<p>Actually Murray Edwards College isn’t brand new. It was founded in 1954 as New Hall but has just changed its name for reasons I can’t remember. So it’s a fully established college.</p>
<p>^ I know. By new I meant in comparison to the age I wanted. The college I applied to was established in the 1400s and renamed in the 1500s. I mean, going all the way to England, you kind of want to live in the sort of place that you can’t in America.</p>
<p>I’d would have thought that you’d come all the way to Britain to study at Cambridge, not live in an old building. If you don’t want modern then don’t go, there are many others who would gladly take your place.</p>
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<p>This was my college. I also got there through the pool</p>
<p>There is NO guarentee that you will ever live in one of the old buildings even if you go to the oldest college. All the colleges have “new blocks”, the vast majority of which are ugly 60s monstrosities (but when you live in them, you can’t actually see them) as the old accommodation is nowhere near large enough for the number of students at the university now. Every year there is a “room ballot” for the older students, who get to pick the room they want for the following year (in some colleges the ballot is skewed by academic standing ie all those with firsts in their exams go to the top). The incoming first years are therefore left with the smallest/worst rooms. In many colleges only those who are at the top of the ballot when picking rooms for their final year will ever get to live in the old courts. </p>
<p>Modern buildings have the advantages of better heating and plumbing, better kitchen facilities in many cases and usually more social spaces. If you are charged extra for heating an electricity, it will be more in old draughty buildings. There used to be at least one building at Caius for example which had no bathrooms indoors (I suspect there were originally outdoor facilites of some kind) so to use the bathroom the students had to go outside and cross the courtyard to another building. In the current snowy weather, I can’t imagine anything worse! </p>
<p>The disadvantages of modern buildings is that they are often ugly and often not on the same site as the main college buildings (including the dinning hall). </p>
<p>Wait till you see the rising kitchen at Murray Edwards. It’s like something out of a bond film. You will love it!</p>
<p>If the reason you want to go to Oxbridge is to live in an old building, think again.</p>