SUMMARY

Please note that last year's figures are shown in italics in brackets.

Table 1 Number and percentage of applications and acceptances by type of school/college and gender

• The proportion of women accepted has risen to 52% (49%)

• For applications from students attending UK schools/colleges the proportion of acceptances by school/college type are:

  Maintained	56% (55%)
  Independent	44% (45%)

Table 1.1 Number and percentage of Home applications and acceptances by type of UK school/college and gender

• For applications from Home students attending UK schools/colleges the proportion of acceptances by school/college type are:

  Maintained	57%
  Independent	43%

Table 3 Number and percentage of applications and acceptances by GCE A level grade scores and gender

• Of those accepted 93% (91%) achieved three grade As (or more) counting only their best three A levels excluding General Studies.

Table 8 Number and percentage of Home applications and acceptances by ethnic origin and percentage success rate

• The proportion of those accepted who declare they have an ethnic minority background or other is 12% (13%). In addition 7% (6%) of those accepted chose not to declare their ethnic origin.

Table 9 Number and percentage of applications and acceptances by disability and percentage success rate

• The proportion of those accepted who declare they have disability is 3% (3%).

Notes for information

• These statistics refer to applicants making an application in October 2003, either for entry in October 2004 or deferred entry in October 2005. Applicants holding a deferred offer from the previous admissions round are not included. Please note that the statistics also exclude 416 (381) applicants through UCAS who did not submit a Cambridge Application Form (CAF) in addition to the UCAS form.

• The term 'Home' refers to applicants with a UK based domicile code.

• Acceptance figures include only those applicants who received an unconditional firm offer of a place. It excludes those made conditional offers who were unsuccessful at confirmation or who subsequently declined their place after becoming unconditional firm. Table 6 gives the total number of conditional offers made.

• In many places percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number, so totals do not always add up to 100.