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Dear Zihui

 

Apologies for the delay in responding to your request for information.

 

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request.

 

We can confirm that we do hold information of the description specified in
your request and this information is provided in the document attached.

 

As you will see within the attached spreadsheet, where the number of
applications, offers, acceptances and intake are 5 or fewer (indicated by
the symbol ≤5), the information has been withheld because, with such low
numbers even providing this information on an anonymised basis, it may be
possible to identify the individuals, which would make this personal data
of third parties or, if linked with other personal identifiers in the
public domain, would be likely to become personal data. This information
has been withheld under Section 40(2) of the FOIA by virtue of Section
40(3A)(a).

 

Section 40(2) of the FOIA allows a public authority to withhold
information under the FOIA where (i) the requested information is personal
data relating to someone other than the requester and (ii) its disclosure
would breach any of the Data Protection principles. In this case, we
believe that the requested information could relate to and identify
individuals and therefore would be personal data. The disclosure of these
personal data would not be within the reasonable expectations of the
individuals concerned and it would be unfair to do so; this therefore
breaches the first Data Protection principle.

 

Some of the requested information about Chinese applicants’ previous
institution and the ‘average mark for them to change conditional offer to
unconditional offer’ amounts to individualised data which UCL cannot
disclose based on the exemption above. In addition, UCL does not hold data
relating the ‘average mark’, the admission system only records whether an
applicant who had a conditional offer met the condition.  The entry
criteria are set out on the relevant pages of the prospectus, such as:
[1]https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-studen....

 

However, we included in the spreadsheet attached the data for
applications, offers, acceptances and intake relating to Chinese
applicants which we hope you will find useful.

 

As the Section 40(2) exemption is an absolute one, there is no need to
conduct a public interest test.

 

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for
the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for
example by publishing or issuing copies to the public, will require the
permission of the copyright owner.

 

If you are unhappy with our response to your request and wish to make a
complaint or request a review of our decision, please email
[2][email address]. Emails should include the words ‘Internal
Review’ in the subject and be marked For the Attention of the
Vice-President (Operations), alternatively you should write to:

 

Vice-President (Operations)

University College London

Gower Street

London

WC1E 6BT

 

Please note, complaints and requests for internal review received more
than two months after the initial decision will not be handled.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner by using the following web
address: [3]www.ico.org.uk/foicomplaints. You should do this within two
months of our final decision.

 

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact me using the details
provided in this letter and including the request reference number.

 

Further information on the Freedom of Information Act is available from
the Information Commissioner’s Office:

 

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

SK9 5AF

 

0303 123 1113

[4]https://ico.org.uk/

 

Kind regards

Greta

 

Greta Cicchetti

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser

University College London

Legal Services

Data Protection: [5][email address]  FOI: [6][UCL request email]

 

 

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