LOL I do not see the point of checking anymore

LOL I do not see the point of checking anymore

I just checked and I'm still under review unsurprisngly...

No updates over here...still "under review". 

I think we should all organise a protest outside the admissions office and school of law.

"What do we want?"  ----- "Our LLMs"
"When do we want it?"   ----- "NOW!!!!"

Same under review!

based on the stats provided in the last page, the mass rejections are still yet to come as not many ppl moved to rejections/PAO compared to previous years. What Cambridge might do is to push everything to the last two weeks of March, but it is simply unpredictable whether it will be a mass rejection then mass offers style based on their current practice.

No matter what justifications they have, we as applicants are entitled to feel anxious about their handling process. It is fair to say that the level of handling administrative matters by PAO is just unacceptable. I understand some will say technically Cambridge can update our portals during the last two weeks of March, but based on previous years, they have managed the applicants’ expectations. Now, sometimes it is not about the hard rules, but the practicalities and the trust we have given to Cambridge in the application process.

Has anyone had recent communication with the postgrad office?? Maybe they can shed some light on what is happening. They should at least tell us when we should expect something. This is giving us so much unnecessary stress and anxiety every single day!!!!

do you people think it’s possible that because of a backlog for the administration system they completely skip the PAO stage for those getting offers and declare an offer because of the delay???

I doubt that - PAO is one of the essential stages of selecting students. 

However, PAO is not something about which the university says that you will get information. Of course, it is recomforting to an extent, but it is still not a final decision, for which they have indicated as a deadline the end of March. I know, too, that it is excruciating to wait, but I believe that they are doing whatever they can and we can receive offers as soon as possible. As others indicated before, it is probable that they have received a lot of applications this year and I am afraid that here is nothing we can do :( 

[Edited by allobroges on Mar 09, 2022]

thank u for your reply. my only question is that how come a bunch of rejections came out last week and now there is radio silence?? surely they must have assessed all applicants already to be able to send out those rejections 

do you people think it’s possible that because of a backlog for the administration system they completely skip the PAO stage for those getting offers and declare an offer because of the delay???

thank u for your reply. my only question is that how come a bunch of rejections came out last week and now there is radio silence?? surely they must have assessed all applicants already to be able to send out those rejections 

thank u for your reply. my only question is that how come a bunch of rejections came out last week and now there is radio silence?? surely they must have assessed all applicants already to be able to send out those rejections 

[Edited by Troye25 on Mar 09, 2022]

Thank you for all your insights! I'm not sure whether there has been a larger number of applications than usual though. The website says there have been 1200 applications this year, and to my knowledge (although I don't remember where I read it), there were about 1800 last year. This is where I saw how many applications were sent in this year: https://llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions

That is why I don't think there has been a delay in assessing all the applications yet because the website has not changed the 1st March date as well. It is most probably a backlog with the PAO.

[Edited by seriouslylaw18 on Mar 09, 2022]

Thank you for all your insights! I'm not sure whether there has been a larger number of applications than usual though. The website says there have been 1200 applications this year, and to my knowledge (although I don't remember where I read it), there were about 1800 last year. This is where I saw how many applications were sent in this year: https://llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions

That is why I don't think there has been a delay in assessing all the applications yet because the website has not changed the 1st March date as well. It is most probably a backlog with the PAO.

Thank you for all your insights! I'm not sure whether there has been a larger number of applications than usual though. The website says there have been 1200 applications this year, and to my knowledge (although I don't remember where I read it), there were about 1800 last year. This is where I saw how many applications were sent in this year: https://llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions

That is why I don't think there has been a delay in assessing all the applications yet because the website has not changed the 1st March date as well. It is most probably a backlog with the PAO.

Is that updated year on year or is it just a rough estimate?

Thank you for all your insights! I'm not sure whether there has been a larger number of applications than usual though. The website says there have been 1200 applications this year, and to my knowledge (although I don't remember where I read it), there were about 1800 last year. This is where I saw how many applications were sent in this year: https://llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions

That is why I don't think there has been a delay in assessing all the applications yet because the website has not changed the 1st March date as well. It is most probably a backlog with the PAO.

Is that updated year on year or is it just a rough estimate?

It seems like it is updated every year because it specifies 1200 applications for the 2022-23 academic year

Is that updated year on year or is it just a rough estimate?

It seems like it is updated every year because it specifies 1200 applications for the 2022-23 academic year

Hopefully adds some credibility to my theory that we're just stuck at pao

Thank you for all your insights! I'm not sure whether there has been a larger number of applications than usual though. The website says there have been 1200 applications this year, and to my knowledge (although I don't remember where I read it), there were about 1800 last year. This is where I saw how many applications were sent in this year: https://llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions

That is why I don't think there has been a delay in assessing all the applications yet because the website has not changed the 1st March date as well. It is most probably a backlog with the PAO.

Thank you for all your insights! I'm not sure whether there has been a larger number of applications than usual though. The website says there have been 1200 applications this year, and to my knowledge (although I don't remember where I read it), there were about 1800 last year. This is where I saw how many applications were sent in this year: https://llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions

That is why I don't think there has been a delay in assessing all the applications yet because the website has not changed the 1st March date as well. It is most probably a backlog with the PAO.