Dr James Knapton
Information Compliance Officer
Lisa Pe
By email
Reference: FOI-2019-491
19 August 2019
Dear Ms Pe,
Your request was received on 22 July 2019 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
I would like the following information for the last 3 years in a microsoft excel form. Only
applicants for undergraduate courses, if you may, please.
Subjects that students applied to study at Cambridge from each school and how many of these
were successful.
The number of applicants and successful applicants to each cambridge college segmented by
Private School, Grammar School and State School, please.
The information you have requested, insofar as it is held, is refused under section 12(1) of the Act. You
have requested a complex set of statistical information. The University has estimated that the time
required to locate, retrieve and extract the information you have requested would considerably surpass
18 hours of staff time charged at £25 per hour, and therefore that your request exceeds the appropriate
limit of £450 as set out in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees)
Regulations 2004.
For the purpose of this application of section 12, the University has aggregated your request with a
number of other requests on similar topics, all received via the What Do They Know platform on the
same day, from ostensibly different individuals who reasonably appear to the University to be acting in
concert. As permitted under Regulation 5 of the Fees Regulations, the estimated cost of complying with
your request is taken to be the total costs of complying with all of these aggregated requests.
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Yours sincerely,
James Knapton