Miss Zoe Allwood
FOI Manager
Maggie Warburton
By email
Reference: FOI-2020-500
12 August 2020
Dear Ms Warburton,
Your request was received on 17 July 2020 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
I am writing to request statistics regarding mature applicants to the G100 course, for the 2014-
2020 rounds.
I would like the following data, arranged ideally as in the denoted sections.
FIRST SECTION: table with rows, one for each applicant. In each row, please include:
- dummy applicant identifier
- year of admissions round
- STEP grades achieved PRE-application
- Qualifications applied with (ie. A-levels, IB, etc.)
- College applied to
- Offer made or not, specifying whether the offer was from the winter pool or not (and if possible,
the college that picked them up)
SECOND SECTION: table with rows, separated by year of admissions round, showing the
number of people of a certain age that had applied (ie. 2014: [age: 49, number of applicants: 5]
and so on)
THIRD SECTION: table with rows, showing a breakdown of how many of the applicants each
year applied to each of the colleges. (ie. 2017: [Queens': 9, Trinity: 11, Girton: 20])
This information is attached. None of the applicants declared any STEP grades pre-application.
Some of the data has been grouped to prevent the risk of any individual being identified. In presenting
the information in this way, the University is engaging the exemption at section 40(3A)(a) of the Act
because the release of the raw data would breach the first data protection principle (the fair, lawful and
The Old Schools
Trinity Lane
Cambridge, CB2 1TN
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 764142
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 332332
Email: xxx@xxxxx.xxx.xx.xx
www.cam.ac.uk
transparent processing of personal data) as set out in the General Data Protection Regulation. This
part of section 40 confers absolute exemption under the Act.
Please note that the attached document should not be copied, reproduced or used except in
accordance with the law of copyright.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a
complaint or request an internal review of this decision, you should contact us quoting the reference
number above. The University would normally expect to receive your request for an internal review
within 40 working days of the date of this letter and reserves the right not to review a decision where
there has been undue delay in raising a complaint. If you are not content with the outcome of your
review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by the University. The Information Commissioner may be contacted at: The
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
(https://ico.org.uk/).
Yours sincerely,
Zoe Allwood