Our friend DD is very good in maths.She is doing GCSEnext year.Is it true that cambridge has a potential maths candodates list for 14/15 years?

[havara]

If so how do go about it? Dothey have such list for all the subjects? No idea how uni admissions work.

Piffle knows something about this - her ds is on it! As far as I know it's just maths.

calling piffle.................

Oxbridge want students who are passionate about their subject. They don't suddenly develop that passion when it comes to UCAS filling-in time, they have been 'going above and beyond' for years and hence may get on Oxbridge's radar at an early age.

To get noticed for Maths is easy - you just do very, very well in the UKMT which leads on to the Olympiad which leads on to blah blah blah.

Yes, UKMT summer schools are certainly one route I would think, but not all mathematically minded children are good at the UKMT branch of maths (it's mostly number theory & geometry). I think piffle's ds is on some scheme organised by the Millenium Maths Project which quite possibly picks up children who are exceptional at other sorts of maths (either as well as or instead of maths challenge type maths).