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Dear Trinity College, Cambridge,

For the 2021 UCAS cycle, I would like to have the interview scores and NSAA scores of applicants and, please, also include in a separate file the interview scores and NSAA scores of SUCCESSFUL applicants (to make the successful and unsuccessful applicants distinguishable).

Yours faithfully,
Zeyuki Ye

foi, Trinity College, Cambridge

Dear Zeyuki Ye,

I am the Freedom of Information officer for Trinity College Cambridge, responding to your request of 22 March for information about interview scores in Natural Sciences.

I am sorry to have to tell you that it has recently been decided, following the example and encouragement of the University, not to release any data, statistical or otherwise, about any aspect of application for undergraduate admission in October 2021, while the current round of assessment and decision-making is under way. This covers overall data, or data for any individual subject, from enquiries, through applications, interviews and offers, to eventual outcomes. With consideration of examination results required, and arrangements for possible late offers, the 'current round' is not expected to end until August 2021.

The reason for this decision is that piecemeal disclosure of information part-way through the current round is thought likely (here we refer to section 36(2)(c) of the FoI Act), to prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs, namely the applications and admissions process for the Colleges of Cambridge University, which forms a fundamental part of their mission as educational institutions. Disclosure of detailed statistics within the current round is thought likely to prejudice the fairness and confidentiality of the admissions process, which is still ongoing and under which each applicant should have the same information and each application be treated by the same process. The public interest in our maintaining the exemption under section 36(2)(c), so as to avoid this prejudice, is thought in all the circumstances to outweigh the public interest in disclosure.

We note that every year detailed information about the completed admissions cycle is published, supplementing information about previous cycles, at https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.u..., and so is available equally to all potential applicants. This publication includes interactive provision of requested histograms about individual colleges and subjects, extensive tables of data, and a full report.

Should you have any queries or complaints about this reply you may write to the Junior Bursar, Mr E Knapp at Trinity College, Cambridge. Any complaint should be in writing and should set out clearly the grounds for such complaint. Should you not be satisfied with the outcome, you have the right of appeal to the Information Commissioner.

Yours sincerely

Chris Morley

Chris Morley, Secretary of the College Council
Trinity College Cambridge CB2 1TQ
Direct: 01223 338469
Email: [Trinity College, Cambridge request email]
Web: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/

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