Engineering Undergraduate Statistics: 2016/17 and 2017/18 Admissions Cycle

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Dear Downing College, Cambridge,

I am making a FOI request for the following:

1)The ratio of state school to private school students admitted in 2016/17 and 2017/18
2) The scores/percentages of successful(that received an offer) applicants in their Engineering Admissions Assessment in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 admissions cycle (without revealing the personal information about individual candidates, such as name and school, thus providing the data in an anonymous way e.g. candidate 1,2 etc.) and their interview scores
3) The average Maths and Further Maths UMS scores of individual successful candidates who received an offer in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 admissions cycles.(without revealing the personal information about individual candidates, such as name and school, thus providing the data in an anonymous way e.g. candidate 1,2 etc.)
4) The number of unconditional offers given in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 admissions cycle

Yours faithfully,
Barry Nathan

Paul Boult, Downing College, Cambridge

Dear Mr Nathan,

 

Thank you for your FoI request to Downing College regarding undergraduate
Engineering statistics. I am pleased to be able to provide you with the
following information.

 

1.            The ratio of state school to private school students
admitted in 2016/17 and 2017/18:

2016/2017 - 4:7

2017/2018 - It is not known how many will be admitted until after the
examination results in August 2018.  Ratio on offers made is 7:6. Please
note that the numbers are not the total admitted or offered as they do not
include those attending overseas schools.

 

Assessment scores - there were 15 successful applicants 2016/17 and 14 in
2017/18 with the following range of scores.

 

2a.          Engineering Admissions Assessment scores:

Please note these marks refer to different marking systems used each
year. 

2016/17 - 6.7 to 14.3

2017/18 - 3.3 to 7.2

 

2b.          Interview scores (averaged):

2016/17 - 6.0 to 9.5

2017/18 - 5.5 to 8.5

 

3.            Average Maths and Further Maths UMS scores:

2016/17 - 89 to 100

2017/18 - 86 to 97

 

4.            Unconditional offers made:

2016/17: 3          

2017/18: 1

 

 

Further information about making a request to the College, including your
legal rights if you are not satisfied with our response may be found at
[1]http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/about/documents...
 

 

Best wishes,

 

Paul Boult

Records Manager

Downing College

 

 

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