Average LNAT score for those who applied and those who were accepted/made offers
Dear University of Bristol,
For each of the past 10 years I would like to know the average LNAT score for those students who applied to read law as an undergraduate (for all courses requiring the LNAT, i.e., M100, MR11, MR12 and MR13) and for those students who were accepted/made offers to read law. Two aggregate scores for each year are fine, e.g., 2010-2011, applied 19, made offers 31. No need to create a spreadsheet; simple is fine.
Please note that "accepted/made offers" refers to those who were accepted/made offers and is NOT necessarily limited to those who enrolled.
Yours faithfully,
M. Armstrong
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Dear University of Bristol,
Still haven't received a reply.
Yours faithfully,
M. Armstrong
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your request under the Freedom of Information Act within 20 working days.
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would be grateful if you could bear with us if, on occasion, we are unable
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we fully understand what information is being requested. If so, the 20
working day deadline will be calculated once we have received such
clarification.
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publicly available on the University's
website: [1]http://www.bristol.ac.uk/index/
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data about students and higher education: [3]https://www.hesa.ac.uk/.
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5. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/secretary/foi/
Dear Mr Armstrong
Freedom of Information Request (our reference FOI19429)
We refer to your Freedom of Information request dated 27 September 2019.
We apologise for the delay in responding to your request. You requested
the following information:
“For each of the past 10 years I would like to know the average LNAT score
for those students who applied to read law as an undergraduate (for all
courses requiring the LNAT, i.e., M100, MR11, MR12 and MR13) and for those
students who were accepted/made offers to read law. Two aggregate scores
for each year are fine, e.g., 2010-2011, applied 19, made offers 31. No
need to create a spreadsheet; simple is fine.
Please note that "accepted/made offers" refers to those who were
accepted/made offers and is NOT necessarily limited to those who
enrolled.”
University’s Response
Further to Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the “Act”) we
confirm that the information requested is partially held by the University
of Bristol (the “University”).
The table below shows the mean LNAT scores for applicants to law
programmes M100, MR11, MR12 and MR13. The scores are shown as a percentage
of the total score available. The table also shows the mean scores for
those applicants who received an offer (whether conditional or
unconditional), and those who accepted an offer, for entry to those
programmes. Applicants who accepted an offer will not necessarily have
taken up a place (e.g. they may have been released into Clearing).
The admissions cycle refers to the admissions cycle in which the
application was received, whether for a place to study in September of
that year or for a deferred place (e.g. applicants in the 2018 cycle might
apply to start in the 18/19 academic year, or defer for later entry in
2019/20).
Rather than delay your request any further we have provided you with
information from 2013 onwards as this was easily retrievable. If you do
wish to retrieve data prior to 2013 please submit a new request and we
will endeavour to provide the information though there may be further
delay due to the way the older information is recorded.
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | |Applicants who |
| |All | |accepted an offer |
|Admissions Cycle|applicants|Offer-holders|(UF) |
|----------------+----------+-------------+-------------------|
|2013 |55.55 |55.38 |51.30 |
|----------------+----------+-------------+-------------------|
|2014 |57.31 |59.13 |58.96 |
|----------------+----------+-------------+-------------------|
|2015 |62.79 |66.20 |64.60 |
|----------------+----------+-------------+-------------------|
|2016 |57.60 |60.09 |58.51 |
|----------------+----------+-------------+-------------------|
|2017 |52.41 |56.02 |54.02 |
|----------------+----------+-------------+-------------------|
|2018 |50.74 |55.08 |53.18 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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