Just received an offer for the Cambridge MCL, does anyone know if the LLM offers will be made soon as the MCL requires a 3000GBP reservation fee to be paid prior to 18 March?

Just received an offer for the Cambridge MCL, does anyone know if the LLM offers will be made soon as the MCL requires a 3000GBP reservation fee to be paid prior to 18 March?

Congratulations to you.
It is very likely that you will get an offer from the LLM too, if your applications materials submitted to both programmes are pretty much the same (e.g. same IELT score). However, There are students who got offers from MCL, but got rejected by the LLM, so it's not absolute.

Last year, my LLM offer arrived after the MCL deadline. On the very last moment, I called Ms Wade to consulted the problem because I did not want to give up my MCL place before I received an official offer from LLM. She said the Faculty already had accepted me, but they were awaiting formal approval from the Board of Graduate Studies. Ms Wade was also very kind to send me an email stating that I was offered a place in LLM and that an official email from the Board of Graduate Studies will be sent later.

I received the email from the Board three days after the deposit deadline.

Has anyone been rejected for the LLM yet? Cambridge's website says that rejections would be emailed before offers.

Has anyone been rejected for the LLM yet? Cambridge's website says that rejections would be emailed before offers.

Has anyone been rejected for the LLM yet? Cambridge's website says that rejections would be emailed before offers.

Thanks everyone to replied to my post. Congrats to Audacious and good luck to fellow applicants! I had come to peace with waiting until March but now it seems I am back in anxiety mode...

As to the rejections comment, this is only partially true. I remember seeing something in the website about how they might give out some rejections first, but that you can receive a rejection at any time. I guess they might take applications out of the pool at first glance if they already know they do not want to consider them, but this doesn't mean they cannot reject people later in the selection process.

Has anyone been rejected for the LLM yet? Cambridge's website says that rejections would be emailed before offers.

THAT IS FALSE AND THE WEBSITE DOES NOT SAY THAT. All acceptance and rejection letters are sent out at the same time.

Has anyone been rejected for the LLM yet? Cambridge's website says that rejections would be emailed before offers.

THAT IS FALSE AND THE WEBSITE DOES NOT SAY THAT. All acceptance and rejection letters are sent out at the same time.

As to the rejections comment, this is only partially true. I remember seeing something in the website about how they might give out some rejections first, but that you can receive a rejection at any time. I guess they might take applications out of the pool at first glance if they already know they do not want to consider them, but this doesn't mean they cannot reject people later in the selection process.

Has anyone been rejected for the LLM yet? Cambridge's website says that rejections would be emailed before offers.

THAT IS FALSE AND THE WEBSITE DOES NOT SAY THAT. All acceptance and rejection letters are sent out at the same time.

"If your application is unsuccessful, you may receive notification of the outcome earlier. This is not because your application was not fully considered; this is because the process for establishing all the components of an offer is time consuming."

http://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/after-applying/timescales

As to the rejections comment, this is only partially true. I remember seeing something in the website about how they might give out some rejections first, but that you can receive a rejection at any time. I guess they might take applications out of the pool at first glance if they already know they do not want to consider them, but this doesn't mean they cannot reject people later in the selection process.

This is a much more sensible statement than that of our optimistic friend above, but I never said that those who did not receive rejections are in - anyone capable of believing that will certainly be rejected :).

It just seems that having a decision pending is better than having a confirmed rejection - that's why I asked if rejections were already being emailed.

While this is true in general, the LLM website states:

"...The Committee considers applications on their academic merits. Decisions made by the LLM Admissions Committee are then relayed to the GAO, which notifies applicants through the self-service page of offers and rejections and, in the case of offers, of any conditions attached...

If your application is unsuccessful, you will learn about this decision first on your online self-service page. The GAO will also notify you by email. The Law Faculty does not contact unsuccessful applicants."

(Source:http://www.llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions/how-to-apply.html)

As to the rejections comment, this is only partially true. I remember seeing something in the website about how they might give out some rejections first, but that you can receive a rejection at any time. I guess they might take applications out of the pool at first glance if they already know they do not want to consider them, but this doesn't mean they cannot reject people later in the selection process.

This is a much more sensible statement than that of our optimistic friend above, but I never said that those who did not receive rejections are in - anyone capable of believing that will certainly be rejected :).

It just seems that having a decision pending is better than having a confirmed rejection - that's why I asked if rejections were already being emailed.

ignore optimisticgirl...it seems that she is on this site simply to contradict everyone....

Has anyone been rejected for the LLM yet? Cambridge's website says that rejections would be emailed before offers.

THAT IS FALSE AND THE WEBSITE DOES NOT SAY THAT. All acceptance and rejection letters are sent out at the same time.

See as wayward has just posted it is not that false....so stop abusing people

While this is true in general, the LLM website states:

"...The Committee considers applications on their academic merits. Decisions made by the LLM Admissions Committee are then relayed to the GAO, which notifies applicants through the self-service page of offers and rejections and, in the case of offers, of any conditions attached...

If your application is unsuccessful, you will learn about this decision first on your online self-service page. The GAO will also notify you by email. The Law Faculty does not contact unsuccessful applicants."

(Source:http://www.llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions/how-to-apply.html)

Thanks, paxromana. However, all this says to me is that the GAO will notify us by email (either offers/rejections) and that the Law Faculty will not contact unsuccessfull applicants.

I don't see how it contradicts the information on GAO's website.

Anyway, good luck to all of us.

As to the rejections comment, this is only partially true. I remember seeing something in the website about how they might give out some rejections first, but that you can receive a rejection at any time. I guess they might take applications out of the pool at first glance if they already know they do not want to consider them, but this doesn't mean they cannot reject people later in the selection process.

This is a much more sensible statement than that of our optimistic friend above, but I never said that those who did not receive rejections are in - anyone capable of believing that will certainly be rejected :).

It just seems that having a decision pending is better than having a confirmed rejection - that's why I asked if rejections were already being emailed.

ignore optimisticgirl...it seems that she is on this site simply to contradict everyone....

I didn't want to dignify you with an answer but since you deem it fit to make defamatory sweeping statements, let me ask u to visit GAO and then show me wea it says that rejection letters go out first. My only statement here was that we would hear back in March and I stand by that. If that statement qualifies to mean "contradict everyone" then I guess I need to do an English language test.

I believe the wait is driving us mad. Peace, guys.

While this is true in general, the LLM website states:

"...The Committee considers applications on their academic merits. Decisions made by the LLM Admissions Committee are then relayed to the GAO, which notifies applicants through the self-service page of offers and rejections and, in the case of offers, of any conditions attached...

If your application is unsuccessful, you will learn about this decision first on your online self-service page. The GAO will also notify you by email. The Law Faculty does not contact unsuccessful applicants."

(Source:http://www.llm.law.cam.ac.uk/admissions/how-to-apply.html)

Thanks, paxromana. However, all this says to me is that the GAO will notify us by email (either offers/rejections) and that the Law Faculty will not contact unsuccessfull applicants.

I don't see how it contradicts the information on GAO's website.

Anyway, good luck to all of us.

As to the rejections comment, this is only partially true. I remember seeing something in the website about how they might give out some rejections first, but that you can receive a rejection at any time. I guess they might take applications out of the pool at first glance if they already know they do not want to consider them, but this doesn't mean they cannot reject people later in the selection process.

This is a much more sensible statement than that of our optimistic friend above, but I never said that those who did not receive rejections are in - anyone capable of believing that will certainly be rejected :).

It just seems that having a decision pending is better than having a confirmed rejection - that's why I asked if rejections were already being emailed.

ignore optimisticgirl...it seems that she is on this site simply to contradict everyone....

I didn't want to dignify you with an answer but since you deem it fit to make defamatory sweeping statements, let me ask u to visit GAO and then show me wea it says that rejection letters go out first. My only statement here was that we would hear back in March and I stand by that. If that statement qualifies to mean "contradict everyone" then I guess I need to do an English language test.

Wayward just posted the link so if you don't need an english language test as you say, then you can read it :)

PS: i really wonder why would someone who was accepted last year from Cam reject it to reapply this year; and at the same time apply to LSE and even start a FB group for LSE? Further to this, you seem to have a very strong opinion as to when were rejections released last year; so if you were accepted as you allege then how do you know that people weren't rejected before tey started releasing offers? Maybe it's cause you were rejected?

FYI, MCL offers are now out which from last year indicates that we may hear back in 2 weeks time as was with last year. Good luck to each and every one.