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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?

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havara · 18/04/2009 08:53

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

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snorkle · 18/04/2009 10:59

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

havara · 19/04/2009 08:03

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

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senua · 19/04/2009 09:50

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.

snorkle · 19/04/2009 12:07

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).

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