Stay tuned to hear our Director of Admissions, Dr. Marcus Tomalin, explain everything you need to know about how we assess applications, including an analysis of several hypothetical cases!
02:10 What pieces of information do we look at when assessing applicants?
04:50 We say we assess applications holistically—what does "holistic" actually mean?
05:50 Who assesses the applications?
10:20 Explaining the Winter Pool
13:20 What’s the most important part of the application?
17:40 Hypothetical case: Part 1
20:10 Predicted grades compared to final grades
20:40 Hypothetical case: Part 2
22:25 Trying to wing the Cambridge admissions process
24:10 Hypothetical case: Part 3
30:10 Siam’s predicted grades
33:10 Hypothetical case: Part 4
37:00 Differences between humanities and sciences in admissions assessments
41:40 What is contextualisation/contextualising applications?
50:25 What’s the difference between contextualisation and positive discrimination?
55:00 Hypothetical case: Part 5
58:40 So, is there any difference between holistic assessment and contextualisation?
