LLB Law (M100) admission statistics
Dear University of Warwick,
I would like to know the following about each admission cycle separately. First 2013/2014. Second 2014/2015. Third 2015/2016. Fourth 2016/2017.
Would it also be possible to indicate the percentage of applicants who fit into the three A-Level grouping and the percentage of successful applicants who fit into the three A-Level grouping?
1. Applications.
i) percentage of people who applied with predictions of ABB;
a) percentage given an offer
b) percentage who accepted their offer as a firm
c) percentage who accepted their offer as insurance
ii) percentage of people who applied with predictions of AAB;
a) percentage given an offer
b) percentage who accepted their offer as a firm
c) percentage who accepted their offer as insurance
iii) percentage of people who applied with predictions of AAA;
a) percentage given an offer
b) percentage who accepted their offer as a firm
c) percentage who accepted their offer as insurance
iv) percentage of people who applied with predictions of A*AA;
a) percentage given an offer
b) percentage who accepted their offer as a firm
c) percentage who accepted their offer as insurance
v) percentage of people who applied with predictions of A*A*A;
a) percentage given an offer
b) percentage who accepted their offer as a firm
c) percentage who accepted their offer as insurance
vi) percentage of people who applied with predictions of A*A*A*;
a) percentage given an offer
b) percentage who accepted their offer as a firm
c) percentage who accepted their offer as insurance
2. Enrolment by achieved grades
i) percentage enrolled with achieved grades of BBB
ii) percentage enrolled with achieved grades of ABB
iii) percentage enrolled with achieved grades of AAB
iii) percentage enrolled with achieved grades of AAA
iv) percentage enrolled with achieved grades of A*AA
v) percentage enrolled with achieved grades of A*A*A
vi) percentage enrolled with achieved grades of A*A*A*
3. Enrolment by achieved grades against offer( where achieving AAA with an offer of AAB would be 1 above and achieving A*AA with an offer of AAB would be 2 above).
i) percentage enrolled with achieved grades 1 above their offer
ii) percentage enrolled with achieved grades 2 above their offer
iii) percentage enrolled with achieved grades 3 or more above their offer
iv) percentage enrolled with achieved grades 1 below their offer
v) percentage enrolled with achieved grades 2 below their offer
vi) percentage enrolled with achieved grades 3 below their offer
Yours faithfully,
Mr Fred Hemingway
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Information and Data Compliance Team.
Dear Mr Hemingway,
Thank you for contacting us asking for information from the University of
Warwick. Unfortunately, the University is unable to provide the
information requested as part of your FOI.
Information regarding exam results is held individually for each applicant
within the University’s systems. The University’s admission team does not
have the software or the expertise to collate exam performance into the
requested groupings. Each qualification for an applicant is presented as a
single entry, therefore, to determine what A-level subjects the applicants
took or the grades attained it would be necessary to conduct a manual
search of each line for each applicant to ascertain each subject and each
grade, which the University estimates would exceed the cost limit.
Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act states that a public
authority is not obliged to comply with a request for information if the
authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would
exceed the appropriate limit. This is currently £450, which equates to 18
hours of staff time calculated at £25 an hour as set out in the Freedom of
Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations
2004.
To determine what one individual's total collection of grades and/or
subjects was we need to analyse and manipulate the data line by line. Even
if it is estimated that it would take 30 seconds to do this for one
applicant the University has received 2,299 applicants for LLB Law in the
Academic Year 2016/17 alone, to check each individual record would result
in approximately 40+ hours of work. This is excluding the export of the
raw data, plus additional work such as checking for possible identifying
combinations and so on.
Therefore, to provide you with the figures for just one year for
admissions, as opposed to enrolments, would exceed the cost limit by over
double the appropriate limit.
The University is obliged to offer guidance as to what would be manageable
under the costs limit so with that in mind, it may be able to provide the
number of applicants who applied, were made an offer, who accepted their
offer and who enrolled, but without the breakdown of the predicted or
achieved grades.
If this information / refinement would be of interest to you then please
submit a refined request stating what you would like the request to cover.
We look forward to hearing from you. Please note we will close your
request in 20 working days if we receive no reply.
Kind Regards
Information and Data Compliance Team
Dear infocompliance, Resource,
The issue seems to be with question 1 and therefore 3. What if the request were abridged to question, i.e. the people enrolling by A-Level grades achieved? I.e. approx. 30 seconds times by 270 students (not all of whom completed A-Level). To save time, if the answer to this is yes, the maximum number of academic years you reasonably predict you could complete within the time limit is sufficient for my request, starting with the most recent year.
(To give context to this, would you be able to clarify what your Contextual Offer is, how many you give out, at what grades, and how many of your matriculated LLB students for the most recent academic year were given a Contextual Offer. I appreciate this adds complexity and time to the request, and it is not part of the original request. If it is not possible to give this information within the time limit, disregard.)
With question 1, if predictions were not specifically A-Level grades but UCAS points, would this be possible to retrieve within the time limit? If the answer is no, disregard questions 1 and 3. If the answer is yes but that it would not be possible in addition to the retrieval of specific achieved A-Level results, disregard question 1 and 3.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Hemingway
Dear Mr Hemingway,
Thank you for your patience whilst we look into your FOI request, we have
been discussing this at length with the relevant departments. In order to
comply with your request, please could you clarify the following:
· Are you able to clarify if you are seeking this information
regarding the M100 - Law (LLB) 3 Year course on the university website -
[1]https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/applyi... or are
you seeking all courses under the M100 JACS code, of which there are 8
different LLB courses? Depending on which option you are seeking the
University may only be able to provide a number of years to keep within
the 18 hour cost limit under the FOI.
· Are you seeking this information for both Home & EU students
(bearing in mind most EU students may have done different qualifications
to A Level) in addition to this how would you like the University fo
proceed where there are less than or more than 3 A Level records for one
student?
· Can you confirm, is the University to now look at both A-Level
predicted grades for just enrolled students and points predictions for all
applicants for question 1? If so, unfortunately the points option is also
no better than specified grades. The University would still have to spend
considerable time tidying the data to exclude non-A Level applicants and
then identify and exclude (for example) resits. The University is prepared
to can see how far it is able to get for the first option (ie just
enrolled students) but again even if the response is limited to A Level
applicants only, the work behind it will still involve the teams
responsible looking at everyone to identify non A Level or mixed portfolio
students.
We look forward to hearing from you. The University will be unable to
proceed with your request until you have provided the requested
information. Please note that we will close your request in 20 working
days if we receive no reply.
Kind Regards
Information and Data Compliance Team
Dear Mr Hemingway,
The University sent the below email requesting clarification on 17th April
2018 but is yet to receive a response.
As it is over 20 working days since we sent our email requesting
clarification and we have not received a response we assume you no longer
wish to pursue your request and will now close your case.
Kind Regards
Information and Data Compliance Team
From: infocompliance, Resource
Sent: 17 April 2018 11:20
To: Mr Hemingway <[FOI #473633 email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - LLB Law (M100) admission
statistics
Dear Mr Hemingway,
Thank you for your patience whilst we look into your FOI request, we have
been discussing this at length with the relevant departments. In order to
comply with your request, please could you clarify the following:
· Are you able to clarify if you are seeking this information
regarding the M100 - Law (LLB) 3 Year course on the university website -
[1]https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/applyi... or are
you seeking all courses under the M100 JACS code, of which there are 8
different LLB courses? Depending on which option you are seeking the
University may only be able to provide a number of years to keep within
the 18 hour cost limit under the FOI.
· Are you seeking this information for both Home & EU students
(bearing in mind most EU students may have done different qualifications
to A Level) in addition to this how would you like the University fo
proceed where there are less than or more than 3 A Level records for one
student?
· Can you confirm, is the University to now look at both A-Level
predicted grades for just enrolled students and points predictions for all
applicants for question 1? If so, unfortunately the points option is also
no better than specified grades. The University would still have to spend
considerable time tidying the data to exclude non-A Level applicants and
then identify and exclude (for example) resits. The University is prepared
to can see how far it is able to get for the first option (ie just
enrolled students) but again even if the response is limited to A Level
applicants only, the work behind it will still involve the teams
responsible looking at everyone to identify non A Level or mixed portfolio
students.
We look forward to hearing from you. The University will be unable to
proceed with your request until you have provided the requested
information. Please note that we will close your request in 20 working
days if we receive no reply.
Kind Regards
Information and Data Compliance Team
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