G100 Admissions Information
Dear Clare College, Cambridge,
I would like to request the following information for the G100 Mathematics/Maths with Physics course:
1. The number of applicants who were invited to interview at Clare during the 2022 application cycle. (Applicants applying in 2021 for entry in 2022 or deferred entry in 2023).
2. For the application cycles of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 (following the above definition of application year), please can I find out:
a. The total number of conditional offer holders (applicants who had received an offer for G100 at Clare and had STEP as a condition of their offer) who took STEP.
b. The number of conditional offer holders (as defined above) who met the STEP condition of their offer.
c. The number of conditional offer holders (as defined above) who missed their STEP condition but were still admitted to Clare, or another college, for G100.
d. The number, if any, of students who were admitted to Clare for G100 through the August Reconsideration Pool.
Yours faithfully,
Ms L. Tan
Dear Ms Tan,
Re: Freedom of Information request - G100 Admissions Information
I refer to your e-mail below of today, the contents of which are noted.
Regarding the information requested for the 2022 entry UCAS cycles,
insofar as it is held (noting that the current undergraduate applications
cycle is ongoing), it 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 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 public while the process
is ongoing. As this is a qualified exemption, the 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 statistical
information available about previous admissions cycles published at
[1]https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.u..., coupled
with the prevailing public interest in maintaining a level playing field
in terms of the information available to all applicants.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the request, please request
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you are still not satisfied with the way in which your request has been
dealt with you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. Generally, the Commissioner will not entertain your complaint
unless you have exhausted any relevant internal review procedures.
Yours sincerely,
Emma Easterbrook
Miss Emma Easterbrook
Assistant Bursar
Clare College
Trinity Lane
Cambridge CB2 1TL
E-mail: [2][email address]
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