Winter Pool information sheet 2011v2 - University of Cambridge

The outcome of the Pool
If you have not heard from any College by the time the Pool interviews take place, the likelihood is
that your application is not going to be taken further by another College. In this case, your
application papers will be returned to the College which handled your application in the first place
and you will receive a letter from that College by the end of January (and, in due course, from
UCAS) about the final outcome of your Cambridge application. It is important to realise that there
may be many very good applicants in the Pool who do not get the offer of a Cambridge place. We
are constrained both by numbers and also by the size of Colleges and University departments, and
cannot take all those who have the ability to do well at the University.
If you are successful in gaining a place through the Pool, you will be contacted as soon as possible.
You should in no way feel that you are somehow ‘less good’ than those obtaining places direct from
the College they applied to (or were allocated to if you applied via the open route). Applicants from
the Pool do equally well academically when compared with those who receive an offer from the
College that initially considered their application.
Pool timetable 2011
7 – 9 January selected applicants invited, by telephone or email, to return to Cambridge for
second interviews
7 – 16 January some offers are made to pooled applicants without further interview
13 – 15* January Pool interviews held in Cambridge (*there may be additional dates if required)
9 – 31 January pooled applicants who are not called for further interview will hear about the
final outcome of their Cambridge application from their original College
16 – 31 January decisions on pool interviews are communicated to applicants
Some facts about the Winter Pool in 2010
• 29 undergraduate Colleges pooled applicants
• 3358 applications were pooled in total
• 469 pooled applicants were re-interviewed
• 840 pooled applicants were made offers, of these:
o 615 received a direct offer without returning for Pool interviews
o 225 received offers following a Pool interview
• 94 pooled applicants received offers from the College that pooled them
Produced by: Cambridge Admissions Office (December 2010), Fitzwilliam House, 32 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QY
Telephone: 01223 333 308 Fax: 01223 366 383 Email: admissions@cam.ac.uk Website: www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/