A100 Medicine 2021

The request was refused by Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Dear Peterhouse, Cambridge,

I am writing to request the following information:

1. BMAT scores of all the applicants for the A100 course at Peterhouse, 2021 entry.

2. The interview scores of each applicant who received an interview.

Please could you also indicate whether each candidate received an interview, offer or was placed in the pool and the outcome of the pool.

Yours faithfully,

Sophie P

Liz Wake, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Dear Sophie

Further to your FOI request received on 31 January the information requested, insofar as it is held (noting that the current undergraduate applications cycle is ongoing), is exempt under section 36(2)(c) of the Act because its disclosure would be likely to prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs, in this case the integrity of the College’s applications and admissions process which form a fundamental part of its mission as an educational institution. (As the information requested is statistical in nature, the opinion of the qualified person did not need to be sought for this application of section 36.)

The current undergraduate applications cycle is ongoing and applications are still being submitted and assessed. The College considers that the disclosure of detailed statistics about applications made within the current cycle would be likely to prejudice the notion of a fair and confidential admissions process whereby each applicant has the same information at their disposal and partial granular data is not disclosed to specific members of the public while the process is ongoing.

As this is a qualified exemption, the College has considered whether, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. The College considers that, while some people might have an understandable private interest in these statistics, there is no genuine public interest in them when set against the extensive statistical information available about previous admissions cycles published at https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.u... coupled with the prevailing public interest in maintaining a level playing field in terms of the information available to all applicants.

College Secretary/FOI Officer