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Dear Arusha,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 24^th August 2021. 
Apologies for the delay in responding to your request.

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request regarding the admission statistics for BSc Psychology for
admission cycles 2020 and 2021.

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

OUR RESPONSE

Academic Total Total
Year applications   offers   Acceptances      
Accept
Firmly offer as
% % accept insurance
    international   international offer total   total  
% %
            international   international
2020 1635 59% 940 60% 490 68% 60 46%
2021 1895 61% 465 42% 255 51% 20 Withheld

Of those who received a conditional offer and firmly accepted the offer
for which we have information, in 2020 52% met the conditions, in 2021 72%
met the conditions. However, the 2020 data on whether they met the
conditions might be unreliable due to the impact of the 2020 A-level
grading issues.

Whilst UCL is committed to openness and transparency, we are also mindful
of our obligations under the Data Protection regime, and therefore take
steps to anonymise data before it is released. We therefore adopt the
following approach when releasing statistic that relate to people, to
prevent unauthorised disclosure of information that relates to
individuals:

•               Numbers of individuals are rounded to the nearest multiple
of five – so if the figure is 102 individuals, this is rounded to 100. Any
number lower than 2.5 is rounded to zero.

•               Percentages that are based on a group of 22 individuals or
less are not provided, and this includes requests for percentile
information about marks.

•               Averages based on 7 or fewer individuals are not provided.

We have identified that there is a risk of the identification of
underlying individuals in the information that you have requested. We have
therefore applied rounding to the number of applications, offers and
acceptances to the nearest multiple of five. The information withheld is
personal information 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 Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA) by virtue of Section 40(3A)(i).

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.

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

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