Hi guys! Has anyone, either this year or previously, been rejected yet after a status change to awaiting BoGS decision? I'm paranoid, lmao.

I had the same concerns last year, and asked the same question on last year's thread. As far as I am aware, no one on this forum has ever provided a concrete example of anyone not getting an offer after getting BoGS.

In addition, replies this year indicate that Ms Wade herself has said that it is largely a formality. I am of the view that the BoGS will not make an offer only in extreme circumstances - for instance if references/transcripts are forged, or there is some other fundamental issue with an application.

Happy to be corrected if anyone else has more information.

Happy to be corrected if anyone else has more information.

Happy to be corrected if anyone else has more information.

Well, here's to hoping you remain uncorrected, haha!

It is fairly nerve-racking, this process, with the ominous Board of Graduate Studies suddenly in the mix. It seems the offers took a while after the status changed for various people, but on the other hand, Cambridge aims at taking out the decisions by March 15th. So I guess the two-day wait, at the very least, is obligatory for now.

I checked my CamSIS today after a week and found the BGS status update. It seems I am in too.

Nothing to be proud of, though.

What is this supposed to mean...?

Well finally my status has changed to "awaiting decision by the Board of Graduate Studies". I hope I get an offer soon. Best of luck to the ones who are still waiting.

I checked my CamSIS today after a week and found the BGS status update. It seems I am in too.

Nothing to be proud of, though.

What is this supposed to mean...?

This is supposed to mean that Cambridge seems to be the UPenn of English law schools where about half of those who apply get an offer. Many who join the course are the ones who don't get into the BCL program.

While I am not unmoved by my Cambridge offer its hardly a cause for celebration. Anyway I'm 99% certain of not taking up this offer, for the benefit of those on the waitlist (yes I know what the website says but there is an informal waitlist - who get notified of an offer quite late).

Good luck with your application.

I checked my CamSIS today after a week and found the BGS status update. It seems I am in too.

Nothing to be proud of, though.

What is this supposed to mean...?

This is supposed to mean that Cambridge seems to be the UPenn of English law schools where about half of those who apply get an offer. Many who join the course are the ones who don't get into the BCL program.

While I am not unmoved by my Cambridge offer its hardly a cause for celebration. Anyway I'm 99% certain of not taking up this offer, for the benefit of those on the waitlist (yes I know what the website says but there is an informal waitlist - who get notified of an offer quite late).

Good luck with your application.

Actually the Oxford BCL has 90 places available and the MJur 50.

I checked my CamSIS today after a week and found the BGS status update. It seems I am in too.

Nothing to be proud of, though.

What is this supposed to mean...?

This is supposed to mean that Cambridge seems to be the UPenn of English law schools where about half of those who apply get an offer. Many who join the course are the ones who don't get into the BCL program.

While I am not unmoved by my Cambridge offer its hardly a cause for celebration. Anyway I'm 99% certain of not taking up this offer, for the benefit of those on the waitlist (yes I know what the website says but there is an informal waitlist - who get notified of an offer quite late).

Good luck with your application.

I'm not sure this is entirely true though? Looking at the most recent admission statistics of Cambridge and Oxford (http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/Graduate_Statistics_2012-13%281%29.pdf and http://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/graduateadmissions_2013_2014.pdf), the numbers seem to be pretty equal. For Oxford it's 1,151 applications, 403 offers and 281 acceptances; for Cambridge 1,168 applications and 252 acceptances.

I checked my CamSIS today after a week and found the BGS status update. It seems I am in too.

Nothing to be proud of, though.

What is this supposed to mean...?

This is supposed to mean that Cambridge seems to be the UPenn of English law schools where about half of those who apply get an offer. Many who join the course are the ones who don't get into the BCL program.

While I am not unmoved by my Cambridge offer its hardly a cause for celebration. Anyway I'm 99% certain of not taking up this offer, for the benefit of those on the waitlist (yes I know what the website says but there is an informal waitlist - who get notified of an offer quite late).

Good luck with your application.

I'm not sure this is entirely true though? Looking at the most recent admission statistics of Cambridge and Oxford (http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/Graduate_Statistics_2012-13%281%29.pdf and http://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/graduateadmissions_2013_2014.pdf), the numbers seem to be pretty equal. For Oxford it's 1,151 applications, 403 offers and 281 acceptances; for Cambridge 1,168 applications and 252 acceptances.

That is a really interesting statistic. It means that Oxford get 4.1 applications for every BCL acceptance, whereas Cambridge get 4.63 applications for every LLM acceptance.

On reflection those statistics must be wrong. There aren't 252 places on the cam LLM, nor are there 281 places on the BCL.

I think those figures must encompass undergrads and/or phds etc

I checked my CamSIS today after a week and found the BGS status update. It seems I am in too.

Nothing to be proud of, though.

What is this supposed to mean...?

This is supposed to mean that Cambridge seems to be the UPenn of English law schools where about half of those who apply get an offer. Many who join the course are the ones who don't get into the BCL program.

While I am not unmoved by my Cambridge offer its hardly a cause for celebration. Anyway I'm 99% certain of not taking up this offer, for the benefit of those on the waitlist (yes I know what the website says but there is an informal waitlist - who get notified of an offer quite late).

Good luck with your application.

I'm not sure this is entirely true though? Looking at the most recent admission statistics of Cambridge and Oxford (http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/Graduate_Statistics_2012-13%281%29.pdf and http://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/files/graduateadmissions_2013_2014.pdf), the numbers seem to be pretty equal. For Oxford it's 1,151 applications, 403 offers and 281 acceptances; for Cambridge 1,168 applications and 252 acceptances.

That is a really interesting statistic. It means that Oxford get 4.1 applications for every BCL acceptance, whereas Cambridge get 4.63 applications for every LLM acceptance.

Oxford accepts a total of 140 candidates (BCL+MJur)

http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/bachelor-civil-law

It's available here

http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/bachelor-civil-law

It's available here

http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/bachelor-civil-law

It's available here

Interesting, thanks! Don't suppose you've found the admission statistics for just the Cambridge LLM (as opposed to all graduate taught programmes in the Law faculty) as well?

On a similar tangent, has anybody got any thoughts on which of the two (Oxford/Cambridge) is better for the field of international law?

It seems the correct figures for both programs are:

BCL: roughly 503 applicants for about 90 spots (5.59 applicants per spot)
Cam LLM: roughly 1000 applicants for 160-180 spots (5.56-6.25 applicants per spot)

It seems that based on the raw figures, both programmes are equally hard to get into.

No doubt someone will be along shortly to convince us that BCL applicants are of a higher calibre than LLM applicants!

I've heard Cam, as it has the Lauterpracht Centre...

On a similar tangent, has anybody got any thoughts on which of the two (Oxford/Cambridge) is better for the field of international law?