LLM Admissions
Dear University of Bristol,
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
Regarding the MA Law programme, I would consider this as part of the request. My only suggestion would be that the MA Law statistics are represented separately from the LLM statistics.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Fred Hemingway
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Dear Mr Hemingway,
Freedom of Information Request FOI18583
I refer to your Freedom of Information Request received on 23^rd December
2018.
Your Request and Our Response
Further to Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the “Act”) we
confirm that the information requested is held by the University of
Bristol (the “University”).
Unfortunately, our data regarding admissions is held in a free-text,
semi-structured format. In order to satisfy your request a member of staff
would have to manually enter each record that exists and identify the
relevant field. As such, in order to satisfy your request, the University
would exceed the 18 hour limit under s.12 of the Freedom of Information
Act therefore cannot provide the data you have requested.
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