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Dear University College London,

I would like to request the following information with relation to the undergraduate Neuroscience (B140 & B141) course in the previous 5 admission cycles.

- The A Levels taken by candidates alongside the predicted grades and actual results, and whether an offer was made
- The number of international students who applied, and the number offered

Yours faithfully,

James

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Dear James

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 16^th September
2021. 

 

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request for information about UCL’s undergraduate Neuroscience (B140 &
B141) programmes in the previous 5 admission cycles.

 

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

 

Your Request:

 

o The A Levels taken by candidates alongside the predicted grades and
actual results, and whether an offer was made

 

Please note: we have provided the average grades of candidates, and the
most common subjects taken, rather than the specific information
requested.  This is because the information in the format requested is
likely to be the personal data of the individuals, and is therefore exempt
from release, as explained below. 

 

o The most common subjects taken were: Biology, Chemistry,
Mathematics, Psychology and Physics.

 

Predicted grades:

 

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
(B140) -UBSANASNEU AAA AAA AAA AAA A*A*A
(B141) -UMSANASNEU A*AA A*AA A*AA A*A*A*A* A*A*A

 

Actual results:

 

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
(B140) -UBSANASNEU AAB AAA AAB A*AA A*AA
(B141) -UMSANASNEU AAB AAA ABB A*A*A*A* A*A*A*

 

 

Offers:

 

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
(B140) -UBSANASNEU05 A*AA AAA A*AA A*AA A*AA
(B141) -UMSANASNEU05 AAB AAA ABB A*A*A* A*A*A*

 

 

o The number of international students who applied, and the number
offered

 

Applicants
Course code Course title 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
UBSANASNEU05 BSc Neuroscience 135 200 230 215 230
UMSANASNEU05 MSci Neuroscience 60 75 85 75 90

 

Offers
Course code Course title 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
UBSANASNEU05 BSc Neuroscience 45 65 65 75 85
UMSANASNEU05 MSci Neuroscience 30 25 20 35 35

 

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 statistics that relate to people, to
prevent unauthorised disclosure of information that relates to
individuals:

 

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