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Friendly; the word 

that best sums up 

Fitzwilliam College, 

known throughout 

the University for 

being welcoming 

and unstuffy. 

Fitzwilliam looks 

for intellectual 

achievement and 

commitment 

among its 

members, and seeks 

to foster academic 

success within a 

relaxed and 

supportive 

atmosphere. 

Fitzwilliam is a modern, 

friendly college, situated away 

from the busy town centre, 

helping to create a close 

community of nearly 500 

undergraduate students and 

65 fellows. The College 

accepts applications for all 

subjects offered by the 

University. Students at 

Fitzwilliam participate in a 

wide range of successful 

sports teams as well as 

maintaining a vibrant music 

society. Although large 

in student numbers, 

Fitzwilliam is compact. 

All College facilities are 

provided on-site or at the 

nearby College playing 

fields. 

Location 

The College enjoys a large 

and peaceful site at the top 

of Castle Hill, a short cycle 

ride from the town centre 

and most of the faculties and 

departments. The University's 

West Cambridge site has 

brought some of the Science 

departments, including 

Mathematics, Physics and 

Computer Science, to our 

doorstep, a trend which is set 

to continue. 

The College was 

established on this site in the 

1960s, in the grounds of The 

Grove, a Regency house 

which is part of the College. 

Since then, a new building 

has been completed each 

decade; student accommodation, 

the central building 

with hall, library, common 

room and bar, squash courts, 

the chapel, the auditorium 

and, most recently, the gatehouse 

on Storey's Way. These 

are complemented by 

beautiful gardens which are 

one of Cambridge's best-kept 

secrets. 

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Undergraduates are 

guaranteed accommodation 

in a study-bedroom on the 

main College site, or in a 

shared house nearby, for 

every year of their studies. 

Our History 

Fitzwilliam has a unique 

heritage among the colleges 

in extending access to those 

who would not otherwise 

have been able to study at 

Cambridge. 

Fitzwilliam House started 

life in 1869 as a noncollegiate 

institution, to 

provide undergraduates 

unable to afford membership 

of a college with a base from 

which to study, a handsome 

house opposite the Fitzwilliam 

Museum. 

Nowadays, the state pays 

college fees, allowing every 

Cambridge undergraduate to 

belong to a college. 

Fitzwilliam House received its 

royal charter in 1966 and 

became Fitzwilliam College. 

The College remains true 

to its roots. Facilitating access 

to Cambridge remains at the 

heart of the College’s role 

within the modern University. 

The proportion of applicants 

to Fitzwilliam from 

maintained schools remains 

significantly higher than to 

most colleges and this is 

reflected in the composition 

of the student body. Students 

from all backgrounds settle 

happily into the Fitzwilliam 

community, but the College is 

particularly proud of its 

success in making welcome 

candidates who thought 

Cambridge was elitist and not 

for them. 

Fitzwilliam College 

welcomes applicants 

from all 

backgrounds, male 

and female, home, 

EU and overseas. We 

do not discriminate 

between candidates 

on grounds other 

than academic 

ability.

Coming up to 

Fitz each term is 

like coming home 

– I cannot 

imagine a more 

friendly and 

supportive 

atmosphere in 

which to pursue 

both academic 

and extracurricular 

interests. 

Jennifer Wright

Academic life 

Fitzwilliam College admits students to read for all the subjects offered by the University. 

Teaching at 

Cambridge is 

organised by the 

University and 

colleges in tandem. 

The University 

provides lectures 

and laboratory and 

library facilities. It 

also sets the 

examinations! The 

colleges 

supplement and 

enrich this 

university 

provision by 

organising small 

group teaching – 

supervisions – for 

their own students. 

Supervisions are at the heart 

of the undergraduate 

academic experience, allowing 

students to study in small 

groups with an expert in the 

field. Where that expert is a 

Fellow of Fitzwilliam, the 

supervisions will often take 

place within the College, but 

students will also have some 

teaching arranged for them 

with Fellows of other colleges. 

It is the role of the Director 

of Studies for each subject to 

organise the supervisions. They 

also watch over the progress 

of the students in their subject 

and advise on the choices to 

be made within the wide 

range of options available in 

all Cambridge courses. 

The three teaching terms 

at Cambridge last for only 

eight weeks. Terms are 

extremely intensive and 

students are expected to cover 

a lot of ground within them, 

and to use the correspondingly 

extended vacations to 

consolidate and revise, and to 

prepare coursework such as 

dissertations or technical 

reports. That is why we look 

for students who are highlymotivated 

to study their 

chosen subject. 

Arts at Fitzwilliam 

Students reading Arts subjects 

have relatively few hours of 

formal teaching, typically one 

College supervision each 

week, for which an essay must 

be written, plus attending any 

seminar classes or lectures 

(held in the University 

department) as recommended 

by the Director of Studies. This 

is made up for by hours of 

independent study, reading 

and writing, for that allimportant 

weekly essay. A 

long essay or dissertation, 

researched and written over 


more than one term, is often 

an additional requirement. 

Supervisions are still conducted 

one-to-one in some Arts 

subjects. The student who is 

well-prepared will benefit the 

most from this opportunity to 

spend an hour each week 

discussing their essay, and 

much more besides, with an 

expert in the field. 

The library is the essential 

resource for Arts undergraduates. 

Each of the 

University departments has a 

library stocked with the books 

and journals required by 

undergraduates, co-ordinated 

with individual reading-lists. 

Fitzwilliam College has its own 

library with some 40,000 

volumes. The College library 

is kept up-to-date with 

recommended undergraduate 

textbooks and other materials 

for all subjects, most of which 

can be borrowed, plus 

electronic resources. There is 

also a separate Law library. 

With 24-hour access, the 

College library provides an 

ideal working environment for 

those long revision sessions. 

The other essential 

resource is access to 

computers for essay-writing 

and access to the internet. 

Fitzwilliam College offers an 

undergraduate computer 

room (with printer and 

photocopier), and all student 

rooms have internet and 

telephone connections. 

Sciences at Fitzwilliam 

Students reading Science 

subjects can expect to spend 

most of their weekdays 

attending formal teaching in 

their University departments, 

in lectures and laboratory 

practicals. They also attend 

weekly college supervisions, 

preparing examples papers in 

advance. Demanding the 

specialist equipment and 

software that only the 

University departments can 

provide, Science students will 

spend more of their time 

working there. Nevertheless, 

the role of the Director of 

Studies and Fellows of the 

College is crucial. In 

Engineering, for example, all 

first and second-year 

undergraduates are supervised 

‘in-house’ by Fitzwilliam 

Fellows. Their regular contact 

with the Director of Studies 

enables any difficulties 

encountered by a student to 

be recognised and addressed 

at an early stage.

College life has 

exceeded all of my 

expectations, I 

wouldn't want to 

be anywhere else. 

Omotola Awo

Social and cultural life 

Music is a flourishing aspect of life at Fitzwilliam. 

Fitzwilliam students 

enjoy good 

relations with the 

Fellows and College 

staff in a friendly 

and relaxed 

atmosphere. Fellows 

and undergraduates 

in most subjects get 

together socially 

from time to time 

for a talk by a 

visiting speaker, a 

dinner or just 

drinks and a curry. 

University societies and 

sporting clubs cater for just 

about every conceivable 

interest. Fitzwilliam students 

are to be found organising 

and leading University 

societies, and representing the 

University in music, dance, 

drama, martial arts, sport…. 

Not forgetting student politics 

– a Fitzwilliam graduate has 

recently been president of 

CUSU. 

But College forms the 

basis for most student social 

life with social events such as 

fancy-dress Formal Halls, and 

joining in with College 

sporting teams and 

societies. 

Music and drama 

At Fitzwilliam, the opportunities 

for performing, 

practising and enjoying music 

are kaleidoscopic; from music 

practice rooms to the College 

gardens in May Week, from 


the elegance and intimacy of 

the chapel to the state-of-theart 

performing space of the 

250-seat auditorium. All 

musical tastes are catered for, 

including rock music and 

swing. 

The College gave its name 

to the renowned Fitzwilliam 

String Quartet, who return to 

give regular master classes. 

The Fitzwilliam Music Society is 

especially vibrant and wellsupported. 

The Music Society 

gives concerts and recitals 

throughout the year. Singers 

too have plenty of opportunity 

to be heard, from the 

barbershop group to the 

chapel choir, with its energetic 

round of chapel services and 

touring. The Auditorium 

provides not only a large 

venue for performances, but 

also a suite of music practice 

rooms. For more information 

see www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/music. 

Fitz Theatre, the College 

dramatic society, regularly 

produces plays in College, 

including plays written by 

students themselves. Most 

years, the music and drama 

societies combine to produce 

a musical extravaganza, such 

as 'Jesus Christ Superstar', 

with scope for just about 

everyone in the College to 

get involved. 

Music and drama also 

come to the fore when the 

Fitzwilliam students host a 

December Ball, usually held 

every other year. Several 

times each year, Fitzwilliam 

also organises Entz (largescale 

discos) which are the 

envy of students from other 

colleges. Balls and Entz 

alike see the College 

decorated and transformed 

for a night into a different 

and magical place, with 

very loud music. 

Sport 

All levels of sporting commitment 

and ability are 

represented at Fitzwilliam, 

with a large number of sports 

represented to third team 

level. The best thing is to join 

in and have a go. Enthusiastic 

spectators are always 

welcome too. 

Fitzwilliam’s many sports 

teams include rowing, rugby, 

hockey, football, cricket, 

squash, athletics, basketball, 

netball, tennis, table tennis, 

badminton, swimming and 

waterpolo. 

Many of our rowers have 

never rowed before coming 

to Cambridge. Students who 

have tried sports for the first 

time here have developed a 

passion and commitment 

which has taken them to the 

highest levels of University 

sport and will stay with them 

long after graduation. Sports 

in which Fitzwilliam students 

have represented the 

University in recent years have 

included athletics, badminton, 

cricket, cycling, football, golf, 

hockey, rowing, rugby, tennis 

… and pool. 

Fitzwilliam has its own 

playing fields and tennis courts 

near the College site, and a 

boathouse on the Cam. Onsite 

there is a recentlyrefurbished 

gym and 

badminton and squash courts. 

At Fitzwilliam, it is 

easy to meet other 

people who are just 

like you…

Fitz combines 

the academic 

excellence of every 

Cambridge college 

with unbeatable 

opportunities to get 

involved and enjoy 

every minute. 

James Crawford

Undergraduate 

students are 

guaranteed a 

College room, 

either on-site or in 

one of the nearby 

College houses. All 

College rooms are 

light, warm and 

comfortable, and 

allow for privacy 

and independence. 

Many have ensuite 

bathrooms or 

showers; every 

room on-site is 

fitted with at least 

a washbasin. 

First years are allocated single 

occupancy rooms in Old 

Court. After that, students 

may choose their rooms, a 

room ballot is organised by 

the Junior Members' 

Association (the 

undergraduate student body). 

With around 360-370 on-site 

rooms for undergraduates, 

only a minority of students 

occupy rooms in houses. 

Indeed many choose, in their 

second year, to join with a 

group of friends to enjoy the 

sociability and independence 

of sharing a college house. 

The cost of renting in 

College (whether on-site or in 

a College house) varies 

according to the size of room 

and its facilities – a large 

room with full en-suite is 

naturally more expensive than 

a small room with washbasin. 

Students on a tighter budget 

may forego these luxuries in 

order to pay lower rent. Rents 

at Fitzwilliam are broadly in 

line with those charged by 

the other colleges. See 

Finance for more information. 

All students have access 

to small kitchens (gyp rooms) 

for self-catering. The rooms in 

New Court are grouped 

around a well-equipped 

kitchen and dining area. But 

in practice, not having to 

bother cooking and washingup 

attracts students to the 

Buttery for most meals. 

Computers 

The college has two student 

computer rooms – one for 

undergraduates, the other for 

graduates. In addition there 

are sites with 'cybercafé' 

facilities for easy access to 

email. All student rooms, on 

and off the main college site, 

are networked for personal 

computers, allowing access to 

college and University 

networks and via them to the 

internet. All student rooms 

also have a telephone point. 

The Chapel 

The chapel is a resource for 

the whole college community. 

Like most of Fitzwilliam's 

buildings, the exterior is 


Living at Fitz 

Students are offered a College room for all three or four years of their 

undergraduate career. 

simple and austere, but the 

interior is light and 

welcoming. It is a beautiful 

and peaceful place at the 

heart of the College site. 

Sunday and weekday services 

are held, and there are times 

when it is reserved for private 

prayer. The chapel is 

ecumenical, and anyone, 

whether they see themself as 

a Christian or not, is very 

welcome to attend services. 

See www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/chapel. 

The chapel is also 

regularly used for musical 

recitals, with a two-manual 

Collins organ, a Steinway 

grand piano and a 

harpsichord. 

Other facilities 

Other rooms for student use 

include the Stretton Room, 

with a fully-equipped kitchen 

adjoining where students can 

entertain on a larger scale 

than would be possible in the 

gyp rooms, and the Society 

Room, where students can 

read the newspapers or 

access their email. There are 

two music practice rooms in 

the central building and three 

in the auditorium. The 

undergraduate common room 

(the JMA), next to the bar, is 

equipped with a pool table, 

table football and cable TV. 

There is also a laundrette, so 

you don't have to take your 

washing home. 

Eating 

The College hall is where 

meals are taken, whether 

formal or informal. The use of 

a common space by Fellows, 

students and staff enhances 

the College's spirit of 

community. Sharing meals is 

at the heart of collegiality. 

All meals are available 

self-service through the 

buttery, adjacent to the hall. 

The buttery offers a wide 

range of low-cost meals, 

always including vegetarian 

options, fresh fruit and salads, 

and ice creams. Special 

dietary needs can be catered 

for. Through consultation 

with the JMA, Fitzwilliam 

aims to provide the food 

students want, at the times 

they want it. The buttery is 

open for breakfast, and stays 

open for take-away 

sandwiches and snacks all 

morning until lunchtime. An 

evening meal is available 

6-7pm. 

Some week nights there is 

also a Formal Hall, a formal 

three-course dinner, with the 

trappings of Cambridge 

college tradition (a high table, 

grace, gowns, candles, 

silverware…). Dining with 

college friends and guests at 

a Formal Hall is a popular, 

relatively cheap way of 

marking special occasions. 

The shared kitchen 

facilities make self-catering 

possible and there are 

supermarkets within easy 

reach of the College. Most 

students combine some selfcatering 

(cornflakes, toast, 

sandwiches…) with buttery 

meals.

Fitz is a great 

place to learn, 

and an even 

better place to 

make friends. Its 

hard to imagine a 

nicer place to 

spend 3, 4 or 

even 5 years! 

Shazan Miah

Finance 

Contrary to what many people will tell you, Cambridge is not an expensive place to study. 

Colleges provide 

reasonably priced, 

good-quality 

accommodation 

and meals. The 

short terms reduce 

the number of 

weeks per year 

students need to be 

in residence. There 

are no costs of 

travel since 

everything is within 

walking or cycling 

distance, and a free 

bus service links 

some of the main 

sites, including 

Fitzwilliam College. 

Cambridge students benefit 

from free, or subsidised, 

access to educational and 

recreational facilities (libraries 

of which there are more than 

150!, computers, sporting 

facilities and theatres) 

superior to those available at 

almost any other university in 

the UK. Additionally, the 

University and the colleges 

are able to offer awards, 

funds, studentships and prizes 

to eligible students, for 

instance, to help fund 

vacation fieldwork, over and 

above the University's meanstested 

Cambridge Bursary 

Scheme. 

At Fitzwilliam you do not 

have to worry about finding 

your own accommodation on 

the open market. College 

accommodation is guaranteed 

throughout your undergraduate 

course, and you 

only pay for the room when 

you are in residence – not for 

the whole calendar year. 

Fitzwilliam students rent onsite 

rooms for only 29 weeks 

per year (39 weeks for rooms 

in College houses). The rent 

covers heating and lighting 

too. 

At Fitzwilliam, like most 

other colleges, students pay a 

termly kitchen charge and 

then pay for the meals taken. 

Room rents, fixed charges 


and the cost of meals at 

Fitzwilliam College are 

broadly the same as charged 

by other colleges. College 

rents for the current academic 

year can be found at 

www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about. 

The Admissions office will be 

pleased to advise you on 

current meal and room prices. 

College funds 

Fitzwilliam cannot pretend to 

be one of the wealthier 

Cambridge colleges, but we 

are keen to use whatever 

funds are available to offer 

some financial support for 

students. Particular funds are 

available, for example, to 

contribute to the costs of 

students' musical and 

dramatic activities, attending 

conferences, and vacation 

travel. Scholarships and prizes 

are awarded to students who 

attain a First in University 

examinations. 

Fitzwilliam College, like the 

University, is committed to the 

principle that no prospective 

student should be deterred 

from applying to the University 

of Cambridge because of 

financial considerations, and 

that no student should have to 

leave because of financial 

difficulties. For information 

about financial support 

available to home 

undergraduates, see 

www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/ 

undergraduate/finance. 

Tutors are always ready to 

advise on what financial 

support may be available to 

individual students. The 

College has funds from which 

it can make payments in the 

case of financial hardship. 

Advice and help is given in 

complete confidence. 

Student welfare 

Starting University is a 

daunting experience with 

many new challenges, from 

making new friends to 

managing your finances. 

Fitzwilliam offers a network of 

support and mentoring for 

each undergraduate. 

As well as a Director of 

Studies monitoring their 

academic progress, every 

student has a Tutor who is 

there to help with issues of 

personal welfare, including 

financial worries. In addition, 

the College Chaplain, the 

Adviser for Women Students 

and the College Nurse are 

available to discuss individual 

concerns. In most situations – 

such as the invariable midterm 

work crisis – it's College 

friends who are the chief 

comfort. 

Fitzwilliam students are 

extremely good at supporting 

each other. At the very start of 

each year second- and thirdyears 

act as College 'mother' 

or 'father' (sometimes whole 

College ‘families’) to each 

Fresher, providing reassurance 

and a friendly face. Freshers 

Week in College sees a varied 

programme of events to set 

the new students off on the 

right track with all they need 

to know to survive Cambridge, 

and plenty of new friends.

I'm so glad I 

applied to Fitz, it 

has proven to be 

the perfect medium 

for my development 

allowing me to 

thrive both 

academically 

and in my extracurricularactivitiesmost 

notably 

Rugby! 

Edward Phillips

Applications and admissions 

Finding out about 

Fitzwilliam 

Attending an open day is an 

excellent way to find out 

about Fitzwilliam. We have 

three open days a year, two 

in April/May and one in 

September. See 

www.fitz.cam.ac.uk.admissions 

for the next open days. 

Attending an open day 

allows you to meet the 

Director of Studies in the 

subject of your choice and 

talk to current students. 

Potential applicants are also 

very welcome to visit the 

college at other times, by 

arrangement – contact 

addresses are on the last 

page of this prospectus. We 

also welcome applications 

from mature students, who 

should contact the 

Admissions Office for advice 

as soon as possible. 

Applications 

Applications must be made to 

Cambridge on a Cambridge 

Application Form (CAF) as 

well as through UCAS. We 

need to receive your 

application by 15 October. 

Entrance to the College is 

based on interview and 

Advanced GCE performance. 

The standard offer in all 

subjects is AAA at Advanced 

GCE level (excluding General 

Studies and Critical Thinking); 

equivalent offers are made for 

other qualifications. 

Candidates receiving offers to 

read Mathematics will also be 

required to achieve high 

grades in Sixth Term 

Examination Papers (STEP), 

which are public examinations 

administered by UCLES. 

On average, there are 

three applications per place, 

but the number of 

applications per subject varies 

widely, and unpredictably, 

from year to year. 

Interviews 

All the candidates we see 

should be capable of 

achieving the high A2-level 

grades (or equivalent 

qualifications) that we require 

in our conditional offers. For 

us, therefore, interviews are 

by far the most important 

means of distinguishing 

between highly qualified 

applicants who are strongly 

supported by their schools or 

colleges. So it is very much in 

our interest to get the best 

out of candidates in these 

interviews. Contrary to 

popular myth, we do not set 

out to make interviewees feel 

uncomfortable, or to play 

tricks on them. We hope that 

some of the following 

remarks help you give of your 

best in interviews, and 

therefore help us too. 

You can expect to be 

asked testing, thoughtprovoking 

questions: 

questions whose answers are 

not immediately obvious. 

Clearly, interviews have to be 

challenging. However, those 


Fitzwilliam welcomes any applicant who has the necessary academic ability and 

potential, regardless of background. 

who ask you these questions 

will be hoping that you will 

do well. 'Doing well' does not 

mean merely unloading 

information or arguments 

that you might have learned 

in advance. 

The questions will be 

testing because they will 

invite you to speculate, to 

think on your feet, to discuss 

problems to which there are 

often no easy or neat 

solutions. We are interested in 

your ability to think for 

yourself, not in how polished 

or well coached your delivery 

might be. For this reason, we 

will try to put you at your 

ease. We know that 

candidates are nervous, and 

make allowances for this. We 

want you to feel confident 

enough to express your own 

views and talk about your 

own interests. The whole 

point of interviews is to give 

the interviewers a sense of 

the individuality and potential 

of each student – something 

that no exam paper can 

reflect. 

At Fitzwilliam (and most 

colleges follow this pattern), 

candidates have two 

interviews: a Subject Interview 

and a General Interview. Each 

lasts about half-an-hour. The 

Subject Interview is 

conducted by the Director of 

Studies who is responsible for 

that subject in the College; he 

or she is often assisted by one 

or two colleagues. These 

interviewers are the same 

people who will teach you, 

and organise your studies, if 

you do get a place at 

Fitzwilliam. They will be 

responsible for you 

academically. They have good 

reason, therefore, to be 

looking for talented, 

stimulating, and, perhaps 

above all, well motivated 

students. 

Can I take a gap year? 

Yes, we are happy for 

applicants to all 

subjects to take a gap 

year and thereby 

apply for deferred 

admission.

Fitzwilliam is a 

cosy college where 

many people are 

nice and friendly. 

Chee How Tan

Interviews 

Be prepared, be candid, but above all, be yourself. 

You cannot predict the 

precise questions that you will 

be asked, however, give some 

thought to the topics about 

which you would most like to 

be questioned. Interviewers 

should give you the chance to 

tell them what these topics 

might be. 

For some subjects there is 

an additional exercise: reading 

a passage in a foreign 

language, answering 

questions from a short text, 

or some other form of written 

test. You will be informed in 

advance if such an exercise 

features as part of an 

interview. If it does, it is 

designed as much to be a 

stimulus to discussion as a 

test of knowledge. Even here, 

we are less concerned that 

you give the 'right' answer 

than we are with your 

intellectual curiosity, and your 

ability to grapple with 

problems whose solution you 

have not already been taught. 

In the course of an interview, 

we will help you think 

through these problems. In 

Science subjects, it is common 

for candidates to be given 

problems to solve during the 

interviews themselves. In 

some Humanities subjects we 

ask for sample school essays 

to be sent to us before your 

interview, and pose questions 

and arguments provoked by 

these. Here again, we will be 

asking you to think laterally, 

to recognise conflicting 

viewpoints, and to suggest 

how intellectual debates can 

be resolved. 

Your General Interview is 

likely to be conducted by a 

Fellow of the College who 

teaches in a subject different 

from, but close to, the one 

for which you have applied. 

You should not be surprised 

then, if in this interview you 

are asked academic questions 

about your subject, and the 

reason for your commitment 

to it. At Fitzwilliam, the 

General Interview may focus 

on some of the interests that 

you have described on your 

application form (reading, 

work experience, travel, plans 

for a gap year, for example). 

You should not, however, 

expect it to be less 

demanding than the Subject 

Interview. A large part of the 

General Interview may well 

feel like another Subject 

Interview, with technical 

questions on your school 

studies. 

These are only general 

guidelines, and you should try 

to talk to your prospective 

Director of Studies about the 

special demands of his or her 

subject; a College Open Day 

provides the best opportunity 

for you to do this. This is 

likely to be particularly useful 

in the case of subjects that 

are not commonly studied at 

school, eg Anthropology or 

Architecture. We would 

expect applicants for subjects 

like these to have tried to find 

out about them, and to have 

done some research or 

reading that we can then 

discuss at interview. One of 

the benefits of attending an 

Open Day is to get some 

suggestions as to what kind 

of preparation might be most 

helpful. 

Remember, an interview is 

not a test of smoothness. You 

should not try to present a 

fictitious self. Dress smartly, 

by all means, but don’t wear 

clothes that make you feel 

stiff or awkward. We want to 

find out about you: your 

views, your abilities, your 

enthusiasms. Try to think out 

loud; let us know what is 

going on inside your head! 

That way we get to see how 

your mind is working. Tell us 

what you think, rather than 

what you guess we might 

want to hear. We will try to 

give you the chance to do 

this, and actually to enjoy 

being interviewed. 

Tests 

Applicants for some 

subjects will be 

required to take a 

test to further aid the 

decision-making 

process. 

For Engineering, 

Economics, Computer 

Science and Natural 

Sciences (Physical), 

this will be a 

‘thinking skills test’ 

based on multiple 

choice questions, 

organised by the 

University. 

Candidates for 

Medicine and 

Veterinary Medicine 

will be required to sit 

the BMAT, and 

candidates for Law 

the LNAT. BMAT and 

LNAT are organised 

nationally. 

For school-leaving 

qualifications other 

than A-levels, the 

College, advised by 

the Cambridge 

Admissions Office, 

will make offers 

based on grades 

equivalent to AAA at 

A2-level.

Fitzwilliam College 

Storey’s Way 

Cambridge CB3 0DG 

T: 01223 332030 

F: 01223 332057 

E: admissions@fitz.cam.ac.uk 

W: www.fitz.cam.ac.uk 

To Huntingdon 

To Bedford 

To Royston 

M11 

MAIN 

MAP 

To London 

To Ely 

To Norwich 

& Ipswich 

FITZWILLIAM 

COLLEGE 

CITY CENTRE

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