Application and Offer Statistics for Singaporean Students

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Dear Imperial College London,

I would like to request, for the 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 application years, the following fields of data for schools in Singapore:

(a) the number of applications for undergraduate courses, regardless of course, received from students in these schools, broken down by school;
(b) the number of offers for undergraduate courses, regardless of course, given to students of these schools, broken down by school; and
(c) the number of offers for undergraduate courses, regardless of course, accepted by students of these schools, broken down by school,

for the following list of Singaporean schools:

(i) Anderson Serangoon Junior College;
(ii) Anglo-Chinese Junior College;
(iii) Anglo-Chinese School (Independent);
(iv) Catholic Junior College;
(v) Dunman High School;
(vi) Eunoia Junior College;
(vii) Hwa Chong Institution;
(viii) Jurong Pioneer Junior College;
(ix) Millennia Institute;
(x) Nanyang Junior College;
(xi) National Junior College;
(xii) National University of Singapore (NUS) High School of Math and Science;
(xiii) Raffles Institution;
(xiv) River Valley High School;
(xv) School of the Arts Singapore;
(xvi) Singapore Sports School;
(xvii) St. Andrew’s Junior College;
(xviii) St. Joseph’s Institution;
(xix) Tampines Meridian Junior College;
(xx) Temasek Junior College;
(xxi) Victoria Junior College;
(xxii) Yishun Innova Junior College;
(xxiii) Nanyang Polytechnic;
(xxiv) Ngee Ann Polytechnic;
(xxv) Republic Polytechnic;
(xxvi) Singapore Polytechnic and
(xxvii) Temasek Polytechnic.

Yours faithfully,

Caleb Lee

IMPFOI, Imperial College London

Dear Mr Lee,

This is to acknowledge receipt of your request below, made under the Freedom of Information Act. The College will respond to your request by 5 May.

Yours,

Freedom of Information Team
Imperial College London 

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IMPFOI, Imperial College London

Dear Mr Lee,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act request, below. Imperial College publishes undergraduate admissions statistics for the past 5 completed admissions cycles. These include:

• Number of applicants, offers and places confirmed
• Average BMAT Scores
• Details of A level, IB and STEP Offers Made
• New Entrants' Achieved A level and IB Grades
• Admissions Rate by Nationality

The published information can be accessed at the transparency pages of our website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/apply... (scroll to the bottom of the page to the link “Download the Undergraduate Admission Statistics”). Information is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (Section 21) if it is already reasonably accessible to the requester. The published figures are updated annually (usually in January/February). Information that is intended for future publication is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act by virtue of Section 22 of the Act.

The College does not compile undergraduate admission statistics broken down by the specific Singaporean schools listed in your request as there is no business need for us to do so. Public authorities are entitled to consider whether a request has a value or serious purpose in terms of the objective public interest in the information sought and to weigh that against the burden that would be placed on the organisation by having to produce that information (section 14, Freedom of Information Act). The public interest being the good of the public, not what is of interest to individual members of the public. In this case there is no apparent general public interest value that would justify the College devoting resources to producing the information you have requested. The College’s view is that any legitimate public interest in admissions figures to our undergraduate programmes is met by the information already in the public domain set out above and in the detailed information for applicants also on our website. We are therefore refusing this request in reliance on Section 14 of the Act.

Yours,

Freedom of Information Team
Imperial College London 

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