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Raja Sekhar  
By email only to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx   
19 April 2023 
 
Dear Raja Sekhar,   
 
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”) 
 
Further to your recent request for information held by King’s College London, I am 
writing to confirm that the requested information is not specifically held by the university. 
 
Your request 
 
We received your information request on 3 April 2023 and have treated it as a request for 
information made under section 1(1) of the Act. 
 
You requested the following information: 
 
I would like to know - for the initial waitlisted applicants to the MSc International Management under the 
application cycle of 2019/2020,2021/2022,2021/2022: 
 
1. What was the initial date of their waitlist, 
2. The subsequent date of the final decision and 
3. The final decision that was made? 
 
Our response 
 
We have interpreted ‘waitlist’ as referring to a systematic admissions process whereby 
applicants were told that they were on a waiting list with regards to whether an offer would 
be made to them or not. 
  
We have not operated a waitlist for this course in the cycles referenced and so do not hold 
this information.  
 
We have, however, instead interpreted the request as asking for the shortest and longest 
time elapsed between an application record being created and a decision being made 

(offer/no offer) on said application for the years of entry 2020/1, 2021/2 and 2022/3 for the 
full-time course MSc International Management. Results have been given in terms of days.  
 
Please see the table below: 
  
 
2020/1  2021/2  2022/3 
same 
same 
shortest  day 
day 

longest  301 
302 
302 
 
You may also find the information here of interest (Tab 2, line 553): 
 
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/acservices/admissions/admissions-statistics-2021.xlsx  
 
I hope this is at least of some help. 
 
This completes the university’s response to your information request. 
 
Your right to complain 
 
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your information 
request or feel that it has not been properly handled you have the right to complain or 
request a review of our decision by contacting the Director of Information Governance & 
Data Protection Officer within 60 days of the date of this letter.  
 
Further information about our internal complaints procedure is available at the link below: 
 
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/assets/files/governance_and_legal/Freedom_of
_Information_Policy_updated_Oct_%202011.pdf 
 
 
In the event that you are not content with the outcome of your complaint you may apply 
to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the Information Commissioner 
cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the internal complaints procedure 
provided by King’s College London. 
 
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at the following address: 
 
The Information Commissioner’s Office 
Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow 
Cheshire 
SK9 5AF 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
Neil Doling 
Information Compliance