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The request was refused by Queen Mary University of London.

Mr Hemingway
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Dear Queen Mary University of London,

Across all your LLM programmes, for the three most recent academic years, I would like to request the following data on applicants who have studied their undergraduate degrees at UK universities only:

1)
i) a) Number of people applying with a predicted 1st and b) Number of these people given an offer
ii) a) Number of people applying with an achieved 1st and b) Number of these people given an offer

2)
i) a) Number of people applying with a predicted very high 2:1 (overall 67%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer
ii) a) Number of people applying with a predicted very high 2:1 (overall 67%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer

3)
i) a) Number of people applying with a predicted a mid 2:1 (overall 64-66%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer
ii) Number of people applying with a predicted a high 2:1 (overall 64-66%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer

4)
i) Number of people applying with a predicted a low 2:1 (less than overall 64%) and b) Number of these people given an offer
ii) Number of people applying with a predicted a low 2:1 (less than overall 64%) and b) Number of these people given an offer

5) According to the applicant's achieved undergraduate overall percentage rather than predictions,
i) The number of people with firsts enrolling
ii) The number of people with very high 2:1s enrolling
iii) The number of people with high 2:1s enrolling
iv) The number of people with mid 2:1s enrolling
v) The number of people with low 2:1 enrolling

Yours faithfully,

Mr Fred Hemingway

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FOI 2018/F472
 
Dear Mr. Hemingway,
 
Thank you for your email of 23rd December 2018.
 
I am afraid that your request is refused because we estimate that it would
exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the Freedom of Information and
Data Protection (Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004. For your information
this is £450, calculated as the estimated cost of one person spending 18
hours in determining whether the information is held, then locating,
retrieving and extracting the information. Section 12 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 therefore makes provision for public authorities to
refuse such requests. We record qualification classifications for
applicants who are fulfilling a conditional offer only. In order to fulfil
this request, it would require manual review of all applicants to the LLM
programmes; this amounts to more than 3500 applications across the past
three academic years.
 
Since we do not regularly and in a structured way collect information
about applicants’ qualification predictions and classifications, it is
difficult to advise how your request could be narrowed.
 
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Yours sincerely
                 
Paul Smallcombe
Records & Information Compliance Manager
 

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