Chemical engineering for 2021 entry
Dear Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
I would like to know the number of chemical engineering via natural sciences and chemical engineering via engineering applicants for 2021 entry at Fitzwilliam . Would it also be possible to know how many of those applicants were interviewed ?
Yours faithfully,
Shumaila Shafqat
Dear Shunaila Shafgat
Further to your email of 8 January 2021, in response to your request under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
I would like to know the number of chemical engineering via natural
sciences and chemical engineering via engineering applicants for 2021
entry at Fitzwilliam . Would it also be possible to know how many of
those applicants were interviewed ?
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
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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
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published at [1]https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.u...
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level playing field in terms of the information available to all
applicants.
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Yours sincerely
Mr. Rod Cantrill
Fellow and Bursar
Fitzwilliam College
Cambridge CB3 0DG
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