Miss Zoe Allwood
FOI Manager
Jack Kong
By email
Reference: FOI-2023-653
7 September 2023
Dear Mr Kong,
Your request was received on 13 August 2023 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
Could you please provide statistics for History V100and VR18 courses for years 2019, 2021,
2022 and 2023
1. Number of home independent school A Level students applying to V100 and VR18 courses
in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
2. Number of home independent school A Level students who received an offer for V100 and
VR18 courses in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
3. Predicted grades of home independent school A Level students who received an offer for
V100 and VR18 courses in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
4. No of offers made to home students - split by contextual and non-contextual for V100 and
VR18 courses in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
5. Number of applicants and percentage of offers made to international students for V100 and
VR18 courses in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
6. Number of applicants and percentage of offers made to Home students for V100 and VR18
courses in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
7. Number of applicants and percentage of offers made to students under Widening
Participation for V100 and VR18 courses in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
The requested information, insofar as it is held, is attached.
The University of Cambridge does not make systematically lower offers based on contextual data. Our
approach is based instead on a holistic assessment of the individual circumstances of an applicant,
taking into account a range of contextual and other information, and making offers tailored to those
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individual circumstances, rather than making offers that are automatically triggered by the presence (or
absence) or certain contextual flags.
For further information please refer to our undergraduate admissions website:
https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/contextual-data https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/decisions/admissions-policy Please note that the attached document should not be copied, reproduced or used except in
accordance with the law of copyright.
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Yours sincerely,
Zoe Allwood
